Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- 1 Introduction: Anglo-Scottish Relations in the Fourteenth Century – An Overview of Recent Research
- 2 The English Army and the Scottish Campaign of 1310–1311
- 3 ‘Shock and Awe’: The Use of Terror as a Psychological Weapon during the Bruce–Balliol Civil War, 1332–1338
- 4 The Scots and Guns
- 5 Edward Balliol: A Re-evaluation of his Early Career, c. 1282–1332
- 6 Scoti Anglicati: Scots in Plantagenet Allegiance during the Fourteenth Century
- 7 Best of Enemies: Were the Fourteenth-Century Anglo-Scottish Marches a ‘Frontier Society’?
- 8 Dividing the Spoils: War, Schism and Religious Patronage on the Anglo-Scottish Border, c.1332–c.1400
- 9 The Pope, the Scots, and their ‘Self-Styled’ King: John XXII's Anglo-Scottish Policy, 1316–1334
- 10 Sovereignty, Diplomacy and Petitioning: Scotland and the English Parliament in the First Half of the Fourteenth Century
- 11 National and Political Identity in Anglo-Scottish Relations, c.1286–1377: A Governmental Perspective
- 12 Anglici caudati: abuse of the English in Fourteenth-Century Scottish Chronicles, Literature and Records
- 13 Anglo-Scottish Relations in the Later Fourteenth Century: Alienation or Acculturation?
- Index
5 - Edward Balliol: A Re-evaluation of his Early Career, c. 1282–1332
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 September 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- 1 Introduction: Anglo-Scottish Relations in the Fourteenth Century – An Overview of Recent Research
- 2 The English Army and the Scottish Campaign of 1310–1311
- 3 ‘Shock and Awe’: The Use of Terror as a Psychological Weapon during the Bruce–Balliol Civil War, 1332–1338
- 4 The Scots and Guns
- 5 Edward Balliol: A Re-evaluation of his Early Career, c. 1282–1332
- 6 Scoti Anglicati: Scots in Plantagenet Allegiance during the Fourteenth Century
- 7 Best of Enemies: Were the Fourteenth-Century Anglo-Scottish Marches a ‘Frontier Society’?
- 8 Dividing the Spoils: War, Schism and Religious Patronage on the Anglo-Scottish Border, c.1332–c.1400
- 9 The Pope, the Scots, and their ‘Self-Styled’ King: John XXII's Anglo-Scottish Policy, 1316–1334
- 10 Sovereignty, Diplomacy and Petitioning: Scotland and the English Parliament in the First Half of the Fourteenth Century
- 11 National and Political Identity in Anglo-Scottish Relations, c.1286–1377: A Governmental Perspective
- 12 Anglici caudati: abuse of the English in Fourteenth-Century Scottish Chronicles, Literature and Records
- 13 Anglo-Scottish Relations in the Later Fourteenth Century: Alienation or Acculturation?
- Index
Summary
The patriarch of the Balliols of Barnard Castle and Galloway from 1229 to 1268, Sir John (I) Balliol, was unquestionably an English lord, yet his involvement in such events as both the guardianship of Alexander III of Scotland in the 1250s and the English Barons' War in the 1260s illustrates the important position which he held on both sides of the Anglo-Scottish border. John (I)'s political ambitions and achievements had a direct influence upon those of his son, John (II), king of Scots (1292–96), and his grandson, Edward, king of Scots (1332-56). The impact of John (I)'s status as a great Northern lord in the service of the English crown, especially in Northumberland and Durham where his vast lordships created a strong support base, would be a key factor in Edward Balliol's personal and political campaigns of the fourteenth century. But Edward would also be much more closely involved with the Plantagenet house. Although King John was exiled to France after 1299, Edward was kept in the English royal household, then in the custody of his grandfather, the earl of Surrey, and later was residing with Edward II's brothers. However, Edward Balliol's time in England has received little attention from historians, neither has his life on the continent until 1329 when he may have ended a marriage to Margherita of Taranto in order to return to the British Isles to claim the Scottish throne after the death of Robert Bruce in 1329.
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- England and Scotland in the Fourteenth CenturyNew Perspectives, pp. 73 - 93Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2007