Guy I de Balliol was a Picard baron who was granted land in northern

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in the late eleventh century. In the 1090s, he was established in the north of England by King

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, as part of King William's carve-up of the forfeited earldom of Northumberland.Stell, "Balliol, Bernard de". According to historian Frank Barlow, Balliol's dynasty was one of those that "originated in the reign" and were "planted ... in the frontier areas in order to protect and advance the kingdom".Barlow, ''William Rufus'', p. 172. Geoffrey Stell said that Guy's northern territories were given "almost certainly in return for support rendered in William's campaigns on the eastern frontier of Normandy in 1091 and 1094". Guy himself originated in a frontier area, coming from

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close to

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on the frontier of the

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with the

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. Guy's nephew

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succeeded to Guy's estates before 1130 × 1133, meaning that Guy had died by then.

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References

* Barlow, Frank, ''William Rufus'', (New Haven, 2000), * Stell, G. P., "Balliol, Bernard de (d. 1154x62)", ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, 200
, accessed 24 Jan 2008
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