Château de Bailleul was a castle in Bailleul,

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, France.Stell, "Balliol, Bernard de". It was the ancestral home of the English and Scottish Balliol family. The castle once owned by Enguerrand de Bailleul, Admiral of France, was destroyed by the Duke of Burgundy. The castle of Bailleul, was forfeited to the French crown in 1330, however was held in fief by

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until his death in 1364, whereupon the castle passed to Raoul de Coucy.

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* Stell, G. P., "Balliol, Bernard de (d. 1154x62)", ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, 2004 {{DEFAULTSORT:Bailleul Châteaux in Somme (department) House of Balliol