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• Zij is geboren in het jaar 1218 in Fotheringhay Castle, Galloway, Wigtownshire, Scotland.
• Zij is overleden op 8 januari 1290 in Kemstone, Bedfordshire, England, zij was toen 72 jaar oud.
• Een kind van Alan mac Lochlan, Lord of Galloway, Constable of Scotland en Margaret Huntingdon, Lady of Galloway

Gezin van Devorguilla Nic Alan, of Galloway

Zij heeft/had een relatie met John de Baliol (Balliol), 5th Baron of Bywell.

Kind(eren):

1. Cecilia de Baliol  1240-1273 
2. Ada de Baliol  1245-1285 
3. Margaret de Baliol (Balliol)  ± 1245-????
4. Eleanor (Alianora) de Baliol (Balliol)  1246-1302 
5. John I de Baliol (Balliol), King of Scotland  1249-1314
6. Sir Alexander de Baliol (Balliol)  ????-1278
7. Hugh de Balliol (Baliol) of Barnard Castle  1240-1271
8. Alan de Baliol of Barnard Castle  1250-1272

Notities over Devorguilla Nic Alan, of Galloway

Stirnet's "Galloway1" and "Vans1" pages do not mention a marriage between this Dervorgilla and John de Vaux of Dirleton.
DERVORGUILLA OF GALLOWAY

The Lady Dervorguilla of Galloway established Balliol College in Oxford in the 1260s or '70s. Her statutes for the new college were issued in 1282 at Buittle near Dalbeattie, the caput of the Lordship of Galloway [Frances de Paravicini, Early History of Balliol College (1891, page 64]

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19th century portrait of Dervorguilla.

Sweetheart Abbey, nr Dumfries

Sculpture in the River Nith

Dervorguilla of Galloway (c. 1210 – January 28, 1290) was a 'lady of substance' during the 13th century, wife from 1223 of John, 5th Baron de Balliol, and mother of the future king John I of Scotland. The name Dervorguilla or Devorgilla was a Latinization of the Gaelic Dearbhfhorghaill (alternative spellings, Derborgaill or Dearbhorghil). She was a daughter and heiress of the Gaelic prince Alan, Lord of Galloway and his second wife Margaret of Huntingdon.

Through her mother, she was a descendant of King David I of Scotland. Born in or around 1210, she was a granddaughter of Maud of Chester, and of David of Scotland, 8th Earl of Huntingdon, himself the youngest brother to two Kings of Scotland, Malcolm IV and William the Lion, Dervorguilla's mother Margaret being the couple's eldest daughter.

As her father died in 1234 without a legitimate son (he had an illegitimate son named Thomas), according to both Anglo-Norman feudal laws and to ancient Gaelic customs, she was one of his heiresses, her two sisters Helen and Christina being older and therefore senior. This might be considered an unusual practice in England, but it was more common in Scotland and in Western feudal tradition. Because of this, Dervorguilla bequeathed lands in Galloway to her descendants, the Baliol and the Comyns. Dervorguilla's son John of Scotland was briefly a King of Scots too, known as Toom Tabard (Scots: 'puppet king' literally "empty coat").

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 Sir John was required to make penance after a land dispute with Walter Kirkham, Bishop of Durham. Part of this took the very expensive form of founding a College for the poor at the University of Oxford. Sir John's own finances were less substantial than those of his wife, however, and long after his death it fell to Dervorguilla to confirm the foundation, with the blessing of the same Bishop as well as the University hierarchy. She established a permanent endowment for the College in 1282, as well as its first formal Statutes. The college still retains the name Balliol College, and the history students' society is called the Dervorguilla society. While a Requiem Mass in Latin was sung at Balliol for the 700th anniversary of her death, it is believed that this was sung as a one-off, rather than having been marked in previous centuries.

Dervorguilla founded a Cistercian Abbey 7 miles south of Dumfries in South West Scotland, in April 1273. It still stands as a picturesque ruin of red sandstone.

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 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 Margaret, the Maid of Norway, might, if she had outlived her, have been one of the claimants to her throne. Dervorguilla was buried beside her husband at New Abbey, which was christened 'Sweetheart Abbey', the name which it retains to this day. The depredations suffered by the Abbey in subsequent periods have caused both graves to be lost.

Successors

Dervorguilla and John de Balliol had issue:

* Sir Hugh de Balliol, who died without issue before April 10, 1271.[1]

* Alan de Balliol, who died without issue.[1]

* Sir Alexander de Balliol, who died without issue before November 13, 1278.[1][2]

* King John of Scotland, successful competitor for the Crown in 1292.[1]

* Cecilia de Balliol, who died unmarried.[1]

* Ada de Balliol, who married in 1266, William Lindsay, of Lamberton.[1][3]

* Alianora de Balliol, who married John II Comyn, Lord of Badenoch.[1][4]

* Matilda (or Maud), who married Sir Bryan FitzAlan, Lord FitzAlan, of Bedale, Knt., (d. June 1, 1306),[5][6][7] who succeeded the Earl of Surrey as Guardian and Keeper of Scotland for Edward I of England.

Owing to the deaths of her elder two sons, both of whom were childless, Dervorguilla's third and youngest surviving son John of Scotland asserted a claim to the crown in 1290 when queen Margaret died. He won in arbitration against the rival Robert Bruce, 5th Lord of Annandale in 1292, and subsequently was king of Scotland for four years (1292-96).

[edit] See also

* Lambroughton - Devorgilla and her Scottish connections

Notes

1. ^ a b c d e f g SCOTTISH ROYAL LINEAGE - THE HOUSE OF ATHOLL Part 2 of 6 Burkes Peerage. Retrieved on 2007-11-01

2. ^ Burke, Sir Bernard, CB., LL.D., Ulster King of Arms, The Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages of the British Empire, London, 1883, p.21.

3. ^ Burke, Sir Bernard (1883), p.21.

4. ^ Dunbar, Sir Archibald H., Bt., Scottish Kings, a Revised Chronology of Scottish History, 1005 - 1625, Edinburgh, 1899, p.43.

5. ^ Norcliffe, Charles Best, of Langton, MA., editor, The Visitation of Yorkshire made in 1563-64, by William Flower, Esq., 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 Devorguil of Galloway.

6. ^ Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford, 1904, for her husband's entry and where she is named Matilda.

7. ^ Richardson, Douglas, Plantagenet Ancestry, Baltimore, Md., 2004, p.554, where she is named as "his second wife, Maud".

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 May 15, 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 Records was a record company founded by Balliol graduates, which from 1992-96 made recordings of Early Music, much of it dug out of the darker corners of the Bodleian Library in Oxford.

* Find A Grave

* History of the Baliol Family in Scotland

* FMG on Devorguilla of Galloway

Marjorie Drexler. 'Dervorguilla of Galloway.' Transactions of the Dumfriesshire and Galloway Natural History and Antiquarian Society Vol.LXXIX (3rd series) 2005, pp.101-146. link

Dervorguilla of Galloway (c.1210 - January 28, 1290 AD), was a 'lady of substance' during the 13th century, wife from 1223 of John, 5th Baron de Balliol, and mother of the future king John I of Scotland. The name Dervorguilla or Devorgilla was a Latinization of the Gaelic Dearbhfhorghaill (alternative spellings, Derborgaill or Dearbhorghil). She was a daughter and heiress of the Gaelic prince Alan, Lord of Galloway and his second wife Margaret of Huntingdon.

Through her mother, she was a descendant of King David I of Scotland. Born in or around 1210, she was a granddaughter of Maud of Chester, and of David of Scotland, 8th Earl of Huntingdon, himself the youngest brother to two Kings of Scotland, Malcolm IV and William the Lion, Dervorguilla's mother Margaret being the couple's eldest daughter.

As her father died in 1234 without a legitimate son (he had an illegitimate son named Thomas), according to both Anglo-Norman feudal laws and to ancient Gaelic customs, she was one of his heiresses, her two sisters Helen and Christina being older and therefore senior. This might be considered an unusual practice in England, but it was more common in Scotland and in Western feudal tradition. Because of this, Dervorguilla bequeathed lands in Galloway to her descendants, the Baliol and the Comyns. Dervorguilla's son John of Scotland was briefly a King of Scots too, known as Toom Tabard (Scots: 'puppet king' literally "empty coat").

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dervorguilla
Devorguilla of Galloway1

F, d. 28 January 1289/90, #2734

Father Alan of Galloway2,3,4 b. circa 1170, d. 1234

Mother Margaret of Huntingdon2,5,4 d. Epiphany 1233

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Reference 3229

Arms* Her arms were Sealed: 1. A lion rampant (Galloway). Impaling an orle (Balliol). 2. Three garbs (Chester). 3. Two Piles (Huntingdon).6

Marriage* Devorguilla of Galloway married Sir John de Baliol, son of Hugh de Baliol and Cicely de Fontaines, in 1233.1,2,7,4

Marriage* She married John de Vaux.2

Feudal* She held She was overlord at Offeleye, Hertfordshire on 9 December 1276.6

Feudal She held Has her scutage in Herts., Lincs., Bucks., Rut., Leic., Cambs., Hunts., Ess., Beds., Northants., and Yorks. (S.R.) in 1286.8

Death* She died on 28 January 1289/90.1,2,9,4

Burial* She was buried (with the heart of her husband) at New Abbey, Galloway, Scotland.4

Family 1 John de Vaux d. after 1306

Marriage* She married John de Vaux.2

Child

Thomas de Vaux d. 1346

Family 2 Sir John de Baliol d. 27 October 1268

Marriage* She married Sir John de Baliol, son of Hugh de Baliol and Cicely de Fontaines, in 1233.1,2,7,4

Children

Eleanor de Baliol

Cecily de Baliol d. b 1273

Sir Hugh Baliol d. b 10 Apr 1271

Alan Baliol

Ada Baliol

William Balliol, Sir d. 1313

John Baliol b. c 1249, d. 4 Jan 1314/15

Sir Alexander Baliol b. c 1251, d. b 13 Nov 1278

Last Edited 26 Jan 2005

Citations

[S168] Frederick Lewis Weis, Ancestral Roots, 95-28.

[S218] Marlyn Lewis, Ancestry of Elizabeth of York.

[S233] Frederick Lewis Weis, Magna Charta Sureties, 140-1.

[S301] Carl Boyer 3rd, Medieval English Ancestors of Robert Abell, p. 12.

[S168] Frederick Lewis Weis, Ancestral Roots, 94-27.

[S325] Rev. C. Moor, Knights of Edward I, p. 36.

[S233] Frederick Lewis Weis, Magna Charta Sureties, 141-2.

[S325] Rev. C. Moor, Knights of Edward I, p. 37.

[S233] Frederick Lewis Weis, Magna Charta Sureties, 140-2.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dervorguilla_of_Galloway

Devorgilla tomb - Sweetheart Abbey

Notes ◦1 - Devorgilla was a great-niece of the Scots Kings Malcolm IV and William 'the Lion'. It was because of this connection that her son John became entitled to claim the throne.

2 - Lady Devorgilla Daughter of Alan, Lord of Galloway. Wife of John Balliol. She is an extremely pivotal figure in Scottish History, being one of the heiresses of the Royal House of Dunkeld. After the last member of this family (Queen Margaret) died in 1290, King Edward I of England chose Lady Devorgilla's son, John Balliol as King of the Scots. He reigned for four years (1292-1296). After her husband John Balliol's death, she kept his embalmed heart in a silver casket with her at all times. She founded Sweetheart Abbey around 1273 and endowed Baliol College Oxford in honour of her husband. When she died in 1290 she was buried with her husband's heart, before the high altar of the abbey church. Burial: Sweetheart Abbey Near Dumfries, Scotland [6]

Sources 1.[S474] Colquoun_Cunningham.ged, Jamie Vans

2.[S67] Macdonald genealogy, Roddy Macdonald of the Clan Donald Society of Edinburgh, (http://www.clandonald.org.uk/genealogy.htm), genealogy/d0003/g0000052.html#I0815 (Reliability: 3)

3.[S74] Gordons - Patrick's People, (http://www.patrickspeople.co.uk/ (XXXXX@XXXX.XXX))

4.[S73] Burke's Landed Gentry of Great Britain 2001, Peter Beauclerk Dewar,, (2001.)

5.[S67] Macdonald genealogy, Roddy Macdonald of the Clan Donald Society of Edinburgh, (http://www.clandonald.org.uk/genealogy.htm), /genealogy/d0004/g0000052.html#I0816 (Reliability: 3)

6.[S584] J H Maxwell Ltd, Castle Douglas, Robertson, John F, (J H Maxwell Ltd, Castle Douglas)

http://www.clanmacfarlanegenealogy.info/genealogy/TNGWebsite/getperson.php?personID=I6194&tree=CC

https://thefreelancehistorywriter.com/2013/12/20/dervorguilla-mother-of-a-king-of-scots/

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