• General Notes

  Hugh de Baliol, was certified to hold the barony of Biwell of the crown by the service of five knights' fees, and to find thirty soldiers for the guard of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, as his progenitors had done from the time of Rufus. He held likewise the lordship of Hiche, in Essex, in capite, as an augmentation of his barony, by the gift of Henry II. From King John, he obtained the lands of Richard de Umfraville, and of Robert de Meisnill, in the county of York, in consideration of his services in the baronial war. In the 18th of that monarch's reign [1217], he was joined with Philip de Hulcotes in defence of the northern border towards Scotland; and when the King of Scots had subjugated the whole of Northumberland for Lewis of France, those generals held out stoutly all the fortresses upon the line of the Tees, particularly that of Barnard Castle, where Eustace de Vesci (who had married the Scottish monarch's sister), coming with his royal brother-in-law to the
  siege, was slain. Hugh de Baliol, styled by Matthew Paris, "dives et potens," was s. by his son, John de Baliol. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, 1883, p. 21, Baliol, Barons
  

Details of Hugh's family with Cecily de Fontaines