Hugh de Baliol

Also known as: Hugh Balliol / Hugh Ballioll / Hugh de Balioll · Family: England · Role: nobleman · First appears: King John 17

Life events

c. 1215 · King John assigned northern territory and Yorkshire castles to appointed custodians.(King John 28)
- With: King John Philip de Hulcotes Robert de Vieuxpont Brian de Lisle Geoffrey de Lucy
- “This being doone, he committed the countrie which lieth betwixt the riuer of These, and the confines of Scotland, to the kéeping of Hugh de Balioll & Philip de Hulcotes, assigning to them such conuenient number of men of warre as was thought expedient, and the custodie of the castels in Yorkeshire he deliuered to Robert de Vepount, to Brian de Lisle, and to Geffrey de Lucie.”

siblings with Bernard Balliol “Hugh Ballioll, and his brother Barnard”
allies with King John “king John, yet there were manie others that did take his part, and mainteine his quarell verie earnestlie, as his brother William earle of Salisburie, Alberike de Véere erle of Oxford, Geffrey Fitz Peter lord chéefe iustice of England, also thrée bishops, Durham, Winchester, and Norwich, Richard de Marish lord chancellour, Hugh Neuill chiefe forrester, William de Wrothing lord warden of the ports, Robert Veipount and his brother Yuan, Brian de Lisle, Geffrey de Lucie, Hugh Ballioll”

sworn: King John (The king entrusted Hugh with custody of the region.) “he committed the countrie which lieth betwixt the riuer of These, and the confines of Scotland, to the kéeping of Hugh de Balioll & Philip de Hulcotes”

allies with Philip de Hulcotes “except the castels which Hugh de Balioll, and Philip de Hulcotes valiantlie defended against all the force of the enimie.”

with Alexander II of Scotland (Castell Bernard belonged to Hugh de Balioll; Alexander was present there) “as he came by castell Bernard in the countrie of Haliwerkfolke (which apperteined vnto Hugh de Balioll) he lost his brother in law the lord Eustace de Vescie”

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