Eustace de Balliol (or Eustace de Helicourt) (died c. 1209) was the cousin and successor of
Bernard II de Balliol, lord of Balliol and
Barnard Castle
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. He was the lord of
Hélicourt in
Picardy
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, an estate near the chief seat of the main Balliol line at
Bailleul-en-Vimeu; after his cousin died childless, in 1190 Eustace de Helicourt took over those estates and remarried.
[Stell, "Balliol, Bernard de (d. c.1190)".]
In 1189–95 he quitclaimed the manor of Long Newton, Durham to
Hugh du Puiset
Hugh de Puiset (Wiktionary:circa, c. 1125 – 3 March 1195) was a medieval Bishop of Durham and Chief Justiciar of England under King Richard I of England, Richard I. He was the nephew of King Stephen of England and Henry of Blois, who b ...
, Bishop of Durham, as well as all the land that Bernard de Balliol held in the vill of Newhouse. In 1199–1200, as heir of Bernard de Balliol, he rendered account of 60 marks for his scutage, of which he had paid 10 marks; he also owed £120 for the second and third scutages of King
Richard I
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, which was remitted by brief of King
John
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. Sometime in the period, 1199–1205, he confirmed to St. Mary's, York the advowsons of the churches of Gainford and Stainton, Durham and Stokesley, Yorkshire and their tithes which Guy de Balliol previously granted them. In 1200 he and his son, Hugh, quitclaimed by fine to Robert, Abbot of York the advowsons of the church of Gainford, Durham, and the chapels of Barnard Castle, Middleton, Denton, Houghton-le-Side, and Snow Hall (in Gainford), Durham.
He and his first wife, Petronilla FitzPiers, had four known sons, all of whom appeared in the
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Liber Vitae
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'':
Hugh
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,
Enguerrand (Ingram or Ingelram), Bernard, and
Henry
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; his eldest son Hugh succeeded him, while his younger sons Enguerrand and Henry gained the patronage of the Scottish kings and founded Scottish cadet branches based at
Inverkeilor
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(Enguerrand) and at
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(Henry).
[ Eustace's son Hugh had succeeded him by around 1209.][
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Notes
References
* Stell, G. P., "Balliol, Bernard de (d. c.1190)", ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, 200
, accessed 24 Jan 2008
1209 deaths
Anglo-Normans
People from County Durham
Eustace
Eustace ( ) is the rendition in English of two phonetically similar Greek given names:
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Year of birth unknown
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