Hawise de Baliol

Hawise married Sir William I BERTRAM of Mitford, son of Sir Richard BERTRAM and Sibella DE MITFORD 642. (Sir William I BERTRAM of Mitford was born about 1080 in Mitford Castle, Morpeth, Northumberland, England and died in 1150.)

Family

William Bertram married Hawise (Alice) de Balliol

William was the father of:[7]

1. Roger Bertram, Baron of Mitford[8] m. Ada[3]
2. Guy
3. William
4. Sir Richard Bertram, Baron of Bothal[9] m. Menebell (Father: Sir Simon Gisulph)[3]

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Biography

In about 1095 Sir Robert and Sibella Bertram's son, William, married Hawise, a daughter of Guy de Balliol, Baron of Bywell. Their domestic arrangements during their first twenty years of married life are a mystery, but they must have had somewhere pleasant to call home as Robert gave Hawise's dowry, the Bothal estate, to his young brother. By 1115, however, the couple were ensconced in a motte and bailey built on a steep hill at Mitford, close to the junction of the Wansbeck and Font rivers. Before they claimed the site, the hill had been like a small burgh where the villagers lived; they were moved to the valley below and, as some compensation, the Bertrams built a church, parts of which can still be seen although the present church is mainly 1875 work. A little later, between 1130 and 1135, William founded Brinkburn Priory.

The Royal Manor of Hitchin, and Its Lords, Harold, and the Balliols
By Wentworth Huyshe. Page 51. < GoogleBooks>

Guy de Balliol’s wife was Dionysia, as we have seen from his Charter to the Abbey of St. Mary, York, in which document he mentions also his nephew Bernard (“ pro anima mea et Dionysiae uxoris meae et Bernardi de Balliol nepotis mei”). Guy seems to have died in the first part of the twelfth century. He left a daughter, Hawise de Balliol, to whom one would think his lordships would naturally have passed. They did pass, however, possibly by some arrangement in the nature of an entail, to his nephew Bernard.

But Guy bestowed a splendid dower upon his daughter, who married William Bertram, Baron of Mitford, in Northumberland. She received from her father the socage of Stainton, and Bechefeld in the barony of Balliol, and these were afterwards held by the Bertrams in maritagio. It is probable, also, that the estate of Bothal, Northumberland, also came to the Bertrams through Hawise de Balliol, and her husband, William de Bertram, who founded the beautiful priory of Brinkburn, was probably also the founder of the grand castle of Bothal. In 1149-1152 we find Roger de Bertram, the son of Hawise de Balliol, confirming to St. Mary's Abbey, York, the grant of the church of Stainton, made by Guy de Balliol, which church, he says in the charter, was given by his father, William, and his ancestor Wido de Bailliol—"pater meus Willelmus et avus meus Wido de Balliol.”

Disputed Origins

Ogle (1902) and Wentworth (1906), state that William Betram’s wife was Guy Balliol's daughter,[5] while others say it was the other way around. More recent scholars such as Keats-Rohan and Sanders agree that Hawise is the daughter or at least heir of Balliol.

Based on documentation for the founding of Brinkburne Priory, Hodgeson (1832),[1] says this Bertram is actually "William the Fair," ... son of Guy de Balliol. And that his wife Alice (Hawise) is the daughter of William Merlay, Baron of Morpeth. Later writers like Burke (1866),[7] also agree that Alice is a Merlay.[14]. According to Burke, and later Sellers (1916, p.165), William Bertram m. Hawyse, dau. of Sir William Merley of Morpeth.

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• 1. GUY de Balliol (-[1112/30]). A charter of King Henry II records donations to York St Mary, including the donation of “ecclesiam et…terræ in Stocalea et ecclesiam de Skaintuna et…ecclesiam de Gaynford” by “Wydo de Balliol”[777]. The Testa de Nevill includes a writ of King John dated 1212 which records "Hugo de Bailliol" holding "baroniam de Biwelle" in Northumberland which had been granted by King William II to "antecessores"[778]. This could indicate a grant to Guy de Balliol, who was presumably contemporary to King William II, but this is not certain. “Guido de Baill” donated property to the abbey of St Mary, York, for the souls of “…Dionisie uxoris mee et Bernardi de Ball nepotis mei”, by charter dated to [1112/22][779]. Leland records that King Henry I prohibited “Guido de Baileol in Dirhamshire” from hunting in the forests of Ranulph Bishop of Durham[780]. m DIONISIA, daughter of ---. “Guido de Baill” donated property to the abbey of St Mary, York, for the souls of “…Dionisie uxoris mee et Bernardi de Ball nepotis mei”, by charter dated to [1112/22][781]. Guy & his wife had one child:
  • a) daughter . Her parentage and marriage are confirmed by the charter dated to [1149/52] under which “Rogerus Bertram” confirmed donations to the church of St Mary, York by “pater meus Willelmus et avus meus Wido de Balliolo”[782]. m WILLIAM Bertram, son of ---. William & his wife had one child:
    • i) ROGER Bertram (-after [1149/52]). “Rogerus Bertram” confirmed donations to the church of St Mary, York by “pater meus Willelmus et avus meus Wido de Balliolo”, by charter dated to [1149/52][783].

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References

• http://www.celtic-casimir.com/webtree/10/31712.htm (dead link)
• Cockayne's Complete Peerage, page 160. < Archve.Org> This Roger II wass. and h. of William II (by Alice, sister of Robert d'Umfra- ville, who gave her Great Babington in free marriage — Roger III sold it, 23 June 1262), s. and h. of Roger I (by Ada, his wife), s. and h. of William I, founder of Brinkburn priory (by Hawise, da. of Guy de Balliol, who gave her Stainton in free marriage). {Cartularies of Brinkburn and Newminster, passim: Deeds in Hodgson, ut supra, pp. 24, 26, and in Walbran, Gainford, appendix, no. 3
• Burke, B. (1866). A Genealogical History of the Dormant: Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages of the British Empire. (pp.52) < GoogleBooks >
• Hodgson, J. (1832). A History of Northumberland in Three Parts: Part II. (Vol II, pp.125). Newcastle. Google Books. Page 125. < GoogleBooks >
• Fenwick Allied Ancestry: Ancestry of Thomas Fenwick of Sussex County, Delaware, By Edwin Jaquett Sellers. Page 165. <GoogleBooks >
• Wentworth H. (1906). The Royal Manor of Hitchin, and Its Lords, Harold, and the Balliols. pp. 51. London & NY: MacMillian and Co., Ltd. Page 51. < GoogleBooks>
• <Bothal Castle > From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. (Retrieved 8 April 2022). In 1095, Bothal was given by King William Rufus to Guy I de Balliol, whose daughter Alice married William Bertram, Baron of Mitford, who probably built a hall house.
• “Archaeologia Aeliana, Or, Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to Antiquity, Volume 3.” By Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle upon Tyne. Page 75. < GoogleBooks > Guy BAYLOL, being thus seized, gave the churches of Gainford, Stainton, and Stokesley to the abbey of St. Mary's at York, between 1112 and 1131,' for the souls of (amongst others) Dionysia his wife, and Bernard de Balliol his nephew (nepotis). Bernard the founder of Bar. nard Castle has generally been styled his son, as Bernard, junior, his grandson, would satisfy the word nepos ; but independently of the improbability that the donor would pass over his son, there is other evidence that Guy died without male issue, for Bernard, between 1132 and 1161, confirms to the abbey the church of Gainford “which Guy de Balliol my uncle (avunculus), from whom I hold by inheritance, gave to the said monastery." By inheritance-yet assuredly Guy Baliol left a daughter, whose descendants we shall presently trace, and who obtained the beneficial use of Stainton. I can only conjecture that arrangements in the nature of entails on the male blood were already in use, and that Bernard was in by special inheritance, unless avunculus is a clerical error for avus.
• https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Balliol-6
• https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Bertram-21