Dervorguilla of Galloway
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| Dervorguilla of Galloway | |
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,_Lady_of_Balliol.jpg) Dervorguilla of Galloway, Lady of Balliol by Wilhelm Sonmans | |
| Born | c. 1210 |
| Died | 28 January 1290 |
| Spouse | John I de Balliol |
| Issue | Hugh de Balliol Alan de Balliol Alexander de Balliol John Balliol Cecily de Balliol Ada de Balliol William de Balliol Margaret de Balliol Eleanor de Balliol Maud de Balliol |
| Father | Alan of Galloway |
| Mother | Margaret of Huntingdon |
Dervorguilla of Galloway (c. 1210 – 28 January 1290) was a "lady of substance" in 13th century
Family
Dervorguilla was one of the three daughters and heiresses of the Gaelic prince
Dervorguilla's father died in 1234 without a legitimate son (he had an illegitimate son Thomas). According to both Anglo-Norman feudal laws and to ancient Gaelic customs, Dervorguilla was one of his heiresses, her two sisters Helen and Christina being older and therefore senior. Because of this, Dervorguilla bequeathed lands in Galloway to her descendants, the Balliol and the Comyns.
Life
The Balliol family into which Dervorguilla married was based at Barnard Castle in County Durham, England. Although the date of her birth is uncertain, her apparent age of 13 was by no means unusually early for betrothal and marriage at the time.
In 1263, her husband
Dervorguilla founded a
When Sir John died in 1269, Dervorguilla had his heart embalmed and kept in a casket of ivory bound with silver. The casket travelled with her for the rest of her life. In 1274–5 John de Folkesworth arraigned an
In her last years, the main line of the Royal House of Scotland was threatened by a lack of male heirs, and Dervorguilla, who died just before the young heiress
Successors
Dervorguilla and John de Balliol had issue:
- Sir Hugh de Balliol, who died without issue before 10 April 1271.[2]
- Alan de Balliol, who died without issue.[2]
- Sir Alexander de Balliol, who died without issue before 13 November 1278.[2][3]
- King Crown in 1292.[2]
- Cecily de Balliol, who married John de Burgh, Knt., of Walkern, Hertfordshire.[2]
- Ada de Balliol, who married in 1266, William de Lindsay, of
- William de Balliol, "Le Scott," who issued John LeScott. Some sources say it is probable he was a distant cousin of this Balliol line, not a son of John and Dervonguilla. [5]
- Margaret (died unmarried)
- Eleanor de Balliol, who married
- Maud, who married Sir Bryan FitzAlan, Lord FitzAlan, of Bedale, Knt., (d. 1 June 1306),[7][8][9] who succeeded the Earl of Surrey as Guardian and Keeper of Scotland for Edward I of England.
Owing to the deaths of her elder three sons, all of whom were childless, Dervorguilla's fourth and youngest surviving son
Aunt and niece
She should not be confused with her father's sister,[10] Dervorguilla of Galloway, heiress of Whissendine,[11] who married Nicholas II de Stuteville. Her daughter Joan de Stuteville married 1stly Sir Hugh Wake, Lord of Bourne and 2ndly Hugh Bigod (Justiciar). Her other daughter Margaret married William de Mastac[12] but died young.[13]
See also
Notes
- ^ Scott, Andrew Murray (2003), Dundee's Literary Lives, Volume 1: Fifteenth to Nineteenth Century, Abertay Historical Society, p. 79
- ^ Burkes Peerage. Retrieved on 2007-11-01
- Ulster King of Arms, The Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages of the British Empire, London, 1883, p.21.
- ^ Burke, Sir Bernard (1883), p.21.
- ^ "Balliol Archives - Founders".
- ^ Dunbar, Sir Archibald H., Bt., Scottish Kings, a Revised Chronology of Scottish History, 1005 - 1625, Edinburgh, 1899, p.43.
- Norroy King of Arms, London, 1881, p.295, where it is stated that Sir Gilbert Stapleton's wife's mother was daughter of John Baliol and Dervorguilla of Galloway.
- ^ Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford, 1904, for her husband's entry and where she is named Matilda.
- ^ Richardson, Douglas, Plantagenet Ancestry, Baltimore, Md., 2004, p.554, where she is named as "his second wife, Maud".
- ^ Clay, Charles T. Two Dervorguillas[dead link]. English Historical Review, vol. LXV, issue CCLIV, Pp. 89-91, 1950
- ^ http://www.celtic-casimir.com/webtree/6/26549.htm
- ^ http://sdrc.lib.uiowa.edu/patentrolls/h3v3/body/Henry3vol3page0182.pdf
- ^ Brown, William, ed.Yorkshire Inquisitions of the Reigns of Henry III and Edward I, Vol I, Pp 167 (Footnote a). The Yorkshire Archaeological and Topographical Association, 1892
Sources
- This article originated with the 'Sweetheart Abbey' guidebook, by J S Richardson HRSA, LLD, FSA Scot., published by the Ministry of Works in 1951.
- Anderson, Rev. John, editor, Callendar of the Laing Charters A.D. 854 - 1837, Edinburgh, 1899, page 13, number 46, contains the Foundation Charter for Sweetheart Abbey by Devorguilla, daughter of the late Alan of Galloway, dated 10 April and confirmed by King David II on 15 May 1359, which gives relationships for this family.
- Oram, Richard D., Devorgilla, The Balliols and Buittle in 'Transactions of the Dumfrieshire and Galloway Natural History and Antiquarian Society', 1999, LXXIII. pp. 165–181.
- Huyshe, Wentworth, Dervorguilla, Lady of Galloway, 1913, has been condemned as "romantic twaddle and error" by the historians of Balliol College.[citation needed]
External links
- Balliol College named its 1989-90 fundraising campaign the Dervorguilla Campaign.
- Information about the founders of Balliol College, Oxford, by the Fellow Archivist.
- Dervorguilla of Galloway at Find a Grave
- History of the Baliol Family in Scotland
