Alexander de Balliol of Cavers - First Lord Balliol

• Preferred Name: Alexander de Balliol of Cavers - First Lord Balliol^{[1] [2]}
  
• Gender: M
  
• MilitaryService: Battle of Falkirk1298
  
• Death: 1309 in Binham, Essex, England, United Kingdom at LATI: N1.8523 LONG: E0.6147
  
• Occupation: Chamberlain of ScotlandBET 1287 AND 1294
  
• MilitaryService: Battle of Carlaverock1300
  
• Birth: 1242 in Scotland, United Kingdom at LATI: N6.8167 LONG: E4.184
  
• FSID: GJ1T-ZQ6
  
• MilitaryService: Campaign in Flanders1297
  
• Title (Nobility): with note: Description: 1st Lord Balliol of Cavers
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  Foundation for Medieval Genealogy
  
  ii) ALEXANDER Balliol of Cavers, Roxburgh (-[19 Apr 1310/Jun 1311]). "Alexander de Balliolo dominus de Caveris" donated "medietatem bosci de Gladiswod que quondam fuit domini Johannis de Wallibus et domine Deruorgille sponse sue" to Dryburgh monastery, for the soul of "domini Gwido fratris mei", by undated charter[869].
  
  “Alex. de Baliolo filius Henri de Balliol” confirmed the donation made by “domine Cristiane de Maunlea amite mee” of land “in villa de Dersingham in comitatu Northf[olcie]”, which he had inherited “post mortem domine Lore matris mee et Gydonis fratris mei”, to Binham Priory by charter dated 6 Apr 1272, witnessed by “...dno Henrico de Balliol...”[870].
  
  Lord of Chilham, by right of his wife. A charter dated to [20 Jan/Feb] in 1280 records King Edward I’s permission for "Christiana de Maune and Alexander de Balliol, the heirs of Robert de Valoignes" to pay a debt at a reduced amount[871]. Chamberlain of Scotland [1287/94].
  
  He was summoned to Parliament in 1300 as Baron Balliol[872]. Chamberlain of Scotland [1287/94]. The Ragman Roll names "Sir Alexander de Balliol knight" among those who swore allegiance to Edward I King of England at Montrose 10 Jul 1296[873].
  
  m (shortly after 7 Nov 1270) as her second husband, ISABEL of Chilham, widow of DAVID of Strathbogie Earl of Atholl, daughter of RICHARD Lord of Chilham & his wife Maud Ctss of Angus (after 1245-18 Mar 1292).
  
  She was heiress of her brother at Chilham. "Alexander de Balliol and Isabella his wife…going to Scotland" appointed attorneys for their affairs in England[874]. Leland quotes a manuscript which records the death "XV Kal Apr…apud Chilham" in 1292 of "Domina Isabella de Dovora comitissa de Assele" and her burial "Cantuar: in ecclesia Christi"[875]. A charter dated 1 May 1292 ordered the valuation of the assets of "the late Isabella countess of Athol to her husband Alexander de Balliol"[876]. Alexander & his wife had two children:
  
  (a) THOMAS Balliol (-after 7 Feb 1313). He succeeded his father as Lord of Cavers[877].
  
  (b) ALEXANDER Balliol (-after 1346). He was a prisoner at Berkhamsted 12 Oct 1301, released from the Tower 28 Mar 1310. He was cited in 1316 and 1346[878].
  
  === As chamberlain of Scotland, the third great Officer of State, called Camerarius Domini Regis, and had a salary of £200 per annum allotted to him ===
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  === SIR ALEXANDER BALLIOL of Cavers, co. Rox ===
  SIR ALEXANDER BALLIOL of Cavers, co. Roxburgh son of Sir Henry Balliol, of the same, by Lora, [married before 1233) one of the three daughters and coheirs of William De VALOIGNES,Chamberlain of Scotland, was a younger brother of Guy Balliol (standard bearer to de Montfort at the battle of and there slain, in 1265), was in possession of his paternal estate before 6 April 1272, and was sometime (between 1287 and 1294) Chamberlain of Scotland. He fought in Flanders in 1297, at Falkirk in 1298, and at Carlaverock in 1300. Having married, about 1270, after 7 November 1270, Isabel, widow of David (OF STRATHBOGIE), EARL OF ATHOLL [Scotland], sister and coheir of Richard CHILHAM, or DOVER, daughter of Richard Fitz Roy (a natural son of King John), by Roese, daaughter and heir of Fulbert of DOVER, aII of Chilham, Kent, he acquired that lordship in her right, and was summoned to attend the King at Shrewsbury 28 June 1283, by writ addressed Alexandro de Balliolo de Chileham, and to Parliament by writs addressed Alexandro de Balliolo, from 26 September 1300 to 22 February 1306/7. His wife died 1292, (before 1 May) and was buried in Canterbury Cathedral. He was living in April 1310, but died before June 1311. He was succeeded in the lordship of Cavers by his son Sir Thomas BALLIOL, who was living 7 February 1312/3, but "soon disappears from record." [Complete Peerage I:386-7]
  
  === Henry de Baliol (d 1246), chamberlain of ===
  Henry de Baliol (d 1246), chamberlain of Scotland, was the son of Ingelram and grandson of Bernard de Baliol, of Bernard Castle. His mother was the daughter and heiress of William de Berkeley, lord of Reidcastle in Forfarshire, and chamberlain under William the Lion in 1165. William de Berkeley was succeeded in this high office, not yet divided into those of the treasurer and comptroller, and entrusted with the superintendence of the whole royal revenues, by Philip de Valoines and his son William de Valoines, lord of Panmure. The latter died in 1219, leaving only a daughter, and Henry de Baliol, who had married his sister Lora, obtained the chamberlainship which had been held by the father both of his mother and his wife. Although invited by King John to take his side shortly before Magna Charta, it is probable that, like his sovereign, Alexander II, he joined the party of the barons. He is mentioned in the Scottish records in various years between 1223 and 1244, and the appointment of Sir John Maxwell, of Caerlaverock, who appears as chamberlain in 1231, must either have been temporary, or Baliol must have retained the titale after demitting the office, which Crawford supposes him to have done in 1231. In 1234 he succeeded, in right of his wife as coheiress, along with Christian de Valoines, her neice, wife of Peter de Maule, ancestor of the Maules of Panmure, to the English fiefs of the Valoines, vacant by the death of Christian, countess of Essex, a rich inheritance, situated in six shires. In 1241 he attended Henry III to the Gascon war, and, dying in 1246, was buried at Melrose. It is probable, but not certain, that Alexander de Baliol of Cavers, also chamberlain of Scotland, was his son. His only daughter, Constance, married an Englishman of the name of Fishburn. [Dictionary of National Biography I:985-986]
  
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• m. 14 NOV 1270 in Strathbogie, Aberdeenshire, Scotland

1. Title: Foundation for Medieval Genealogy
   Publication: Name: http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/SCOTLAND.htm#HenryBallioldied1245;
   Note: ii) ALEXANDER Balliol of Cavers, Roxburgh (-[19 Apr 1310/Jun 1311]). "Alexander de Balliolo dominus de Caveris" donated "medietatem bosci de Gladiswod que quondam fuit domini Johannis de Wallibus et domine Deruorgille sponse sue" to Dryburgh monastery, for the soul of "domini Gwido fratris mei", by undated charter[869]. “Alex. de Baliolo filius Henri de Balliol” confirmed the donation made by “domine Cristiane de Maunlea amite mee” of land “in villa de Dersingham in comitatu Northf[olcie]”, which he had inherited “post mortem domine Lore matris mee et Gydonis fratris mei”, to Binham Priory by charter dated 6 Apr 1272, witnessed by “...dno Henrico de Balliol...”[870]. Lord of Chilham, by right of his wife. A charter dated to [20 Jan/Feb] in 1280 records King Edward I’s permission for "Christiana de Maune and Alexander de Balliol, the heirs of Robert de Valoignes" to pay a debt at a reduced amount[871]. Chamberlain of Scotland [1287/94]. He was summoned to Parliament in 1300 as Baron Balliol[872]. Chamberlain of Scotland [1287/94]. The Ragman Roll names "Sir Alexander de Balliol knight" among those who swore allegiance to Edward I King of England at Montrose 10 Jul 1296[873]. m (shortly after 7 Nov 1270) as her second husband, ISABEL of Chilham, widow of DAVID of Strathbogie Earl of Atholl, daughter of RICHARD Lord of Chilham & his wife Maud Ctss of Angus (after 1245-18 Mar 1292). She was heiress of her brother at Chilham. "Alexander de Balliol and Isabella his wife…going to Scotland" appointed attorneys for their affairs in England[874]. Leland quotes a manuscript which records the death "XV Kal Apr…apud Chilham" in 1292 of "Domina Isabella de Dovora comitissa de Assele" and her burial "Cantuar: in ecclesia Christi"[875]. A charter dated 1 May 1292 ordered the valuation of the assets of "the late Isabella countess of Athol to her husband Alexander de Balliol"[876]. Alexander & his wife had two children: (a) THOMAS Balliol (-after 7 Feb 1313). He succeeded his father as Lord of Cavers[877]. (b) ALEXANDER Balliol (-after 1346). He was a prisoner at Berkhamsted 12 Oct 1301, released from the Tower 28 Mar 1310. He was cited in 1316 and 1346[878].
   
2. Title: Our royal, titled, noble and commoner ancestors
   Author: Citations [S728] Unknown author, The Complete Peerage, by Cokayne, Vol. I, p. 386. [S5] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 49-50. [S6] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry: 2nd Edition, Vo. I, p. 134-135. [S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. I, p. 187-188. [S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. IV, p. 441-442. [S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. III, p. 409. [S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. IV, p. 441. [S11568] The Complete Peerage, by Cokayne, Vol. I, p. 305.
   Publication: Name: https://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p146.htm#i4375;
   Note: Sir Alexander de Baliol, Great Chamberlain of Scotland, Baron Cavers1,2,3,4,5 Last Edited 4 Apr 2020 M, #4375, d. circa June 1311 Father Sir Henry de Balliol, Chamberlain of Scotland6,3,4,7 d. c 1246 Mother Lora de Valoines6,3,4,7 d. bt 1265 - 1272 Sir Alexander de Baliol, Great Chamberlain of Scotland, Baron Cavers was born at of Cavers, Roxburghshire, Scotland; Also had property in Bennington, Hertfordshire, and Teversham, Cambridgeshire.5 He married Isabel de Chilham, daughter of Sir Richard de Dover, Lord Chilham and Maud of Angus, after 7 November 1270; They had 2 sons (Sir Thomas of Cavers; and Alexander) and allegedly 1 daughter (Isabel, wife of Ranald More).8,2,6,3,4,5 Sir Alexander de Baliol, Great Chamberlain of Scotland, Baron Cavers died circa June 1311. 2,6,3,4,5 Family Isabel de Chilham d. 18 Mar 1292 Children Alexander Baliol, Lord Chamberlain+ d. c 1290 Sir Thomas Balliol Laura de Balliol+