John Balliol

Also known as: Iohn Balioll / sir Iohn Ballioll · Family: Balliol · Role: claimant · First appears: Richard II 47

Life events

1305 · Edward I seized the manors disputed by John Hastings, Anthony Bek, John Balliol, and Robert Bruce.(Richard II 47)
- With: John Hastings Anthony Bek, Bishop of Durham Robert Bruce Edward I
- “But after his returne the sute being reuiued and continued, it went once more without daie, bicause the king seized the same into his hands, and held it all the time of his reigne”

rivals with John Hastings “there arose in the yeare of our Lord 1305, and in the thirtie third yeare of the reigne of Edward the first, great contention betweene Antonie Beake bishop of Durham, this Iohn Hastings, Iohn Balioll, and Robert Bruse”
rivals with Anthony Bek, Bishop of Durham “there arose in the yeare of our Lord 1305, and in the thirtie third yeare of the reigne of Edward the first, great contention betweene Antonie Beake bishop of Durham, this Iohn Hastings, Iohn Balioll, and Robert Bruse”
rivals with Robert Bruce “there arose in the yeare of our Lord 1305, and in the thirtie third yeare of the reigne of Edward the first, great contention betweene Antonie Beake bishop of Durham, this Iohn Hastings, Iohn Balioll, and Robert Bruse”
with Henry, King of Scots (kinsman) “Henrie king of Scots (kinsman of the said Robert Bruse, Iohn Balioll, and Iohn Hastings, whose heire they were) died seized in his demesne of fee”

with Anthony Bek, Bishop of Durham (John Balliol gave lands to Anthony Bek.) “by reason of certeine lands that he gaue to sir Antonie de Beke the bishop of Durham”

Extracted from the original text of Holinshed's Chronicles — the reigns Shakespeare dramatized. Made with Rho MD.