General Notes

Baliol, John de, English nobleman and patron of learning. Married to the
wealthy Scottish heiress Dervorguilla (1213?-90), who had family connections
with the royal house, he was a member of the Scottish regency council during
the minority of Alexander III. In 1263 he awarded benefactions to a group of
scholars and donated lands for the endowment of a school at Oxford that
became known as Balliol College. His son, John de Baliol, became king of
Scotland in 1292. The name is also spelled Balliol.