The following is from Pamela Johnson's well-researched AMJ Ancestry site (http://www.amjancestry.com/I10734.html): [BAD LINK]

Renauld de Bailleul de Knightley Alias: Rainald de Bailleul, Reginald de Knightley, Renaud "the Sheriff" Born: 1057 in Bailleul-en-Gouffern, Orne, Normandy, France Died: AFT 1086 in Knightley, Staffordshire, England

Marriage 1 Amiera de Montgomery, Niece of Roger II de Montgomery Children: William de Knightley b: 1082 in Knightley, Staffordshire, England

Rainald de Bailleul was Sheriff of Shropshire under Earl Roger of Montgomery (Roger de Montgomery II). He was one of the vassals who accompanied Roger in the Conquest. He was from Bailleul-en-Gouffer, in the arrondisement of Argentan, Canton of Trun, Normandy. (There are thirty Bailleuls in France, so this can become confusing. The French term "Bailleul" is similar in meaning, and no doubt derivation, to the English word "bailliwick," and is normally followed by a place name. (e.g., Bailleul-en-Gouffer).

Following the Conquest, Rainald was Earl Roger's subtenant for a considerable property, including Chenistelei (Knightley) in Staffordshire, which became the family seat.

In Domesday Book, Rainald is shown in possession of many properties in Shropshire, but he held many of these as "trustee" for his step-children, the children of Warin "the Sheriff" whose position and widow were given to Rainald after Warin's death. The Fitz Warin properties passed to Adeline Fitz Warin, sister and heir of Hugh Fitz Warin and descended through Fitz Alan family. The notes concerning the Balliol family in Shropshire and the Domesday Book in 1086 are not correct. The Balliol line of John de Balliol, King of Scotland, was not connected with Rainald de Bailleul. This family arose in a Bailleul in Fecamp. The Bayley family arose in a Bailleul in Picardy.

The sources are in agreement that Rainald's wife was the niece of Roger II de Montgomery, but I have never seen the names of her parents.

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Keats-Rohan, K.S.B. Domesday Descendants: A Prosopography of Persons Occuring in English Documents 1066-1166. II. Pipe Rolls to Cartae Baronum. The Boydell Press, Woodbridge, UK, 2002. p. 299.

Keats-Rohan, K.S.B. Domesday People: A Prosopography of Persons Occuring in English Documents 1066-1166. I. Domesday Book. The Boydell Press, Woodbridge, UK, 1999. p. 348.

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Renard de Bailleul may have been mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086. This Rainald de Baliol (also Renaud, or Renard), was Sheriff of Shropshire under Earl Roger (Roger de Montgomery II), and had accompanied the Conqueror across the channel in 1066. Renard was married to Amiera, Earl Roger's niece. He may be one and the same as Pierre, Knight of Balliol and Fecamp who contributed one ship and twenty men-at-arms at Hastings, or he may be the brother or son of Pierre. Renard's descendents also included several Bishops of Lincoln.

In the late 11th or early 12th century, Renard's son, Bernard de Bailleul (Baliol), began construction of a castle near Durham, overlooking the River Tees.

http://earthfriendarts.tripod.com/Baliol.htm

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Based on an article in Vol 9 of Notes and queries which reads: Sir Hamo de Weston, Knt., temp. Henry II., was the great-grandson of Reginald de Bailleul of Bailleul-en-Gouffern, near Argentan in Normandy, and Lord of Weston, Berton, Brotön, and Newton, in Staffordshire, and divers manors in other - counties held of the king in capite, and under Roger de Montgomery, his wife's uncle, A.D. 1086. Due record of these facts is to be found in Domesday Book. Reginald was succeeded by his son Hugh, and Hugh by his son Ralph de Bolgiole yel? Baliol, who held Weston, &c., in the reign of King Stephen. Sir Hamo, son of Ralph, is named in the Red Book of the Exchequer as holding lands in Shropshire under William Fitz-Alan, and he was Lord of Weston and Blymenhull, Co. Stafford, down to the 11th of King John.

It is not shown how and when the estate of Bailleul-en-Gouffern became alienated, but it is certain that its loss, about the reign of Stephen, led to the adoption by Hamo of the name of the principal possession in England as the family patronymic.

From Sir Hamo de Weston...

What this says, in summary, is that this Reginal de Balliol came to England with Wiliam the Conqueror and was awarded land documented in Domesday, and was Lord of Weston, Breton, Briton and Newton, Sheriff of Shropshire. Weston was passed to his son Hugh, who passed it to his son Ralph de Bolgiole yel? Baliol. This Ralph had a son Hamo who then changed the family patronymic to align with the manor and became Hamo de Weston, Lord of Weston.

This family seems to have used the name Balliol possibly only one generation and is thus confused with the other Balliol family Lords of Bywell in Durham than downstream produced John and his son Edward, both King of the Scots.

This Reginald, and his sons Hugh and Ralph should be renamed I believe to Reginald de Bailleul as he appears to have come from Bailleul-en-Gouffern, Orne, Argentan, Normandie, France.

The other Balliol family seems to have originated from Bailleul-en-Vimeu, Picardie, Somme, Hauts-de-France, France.

But it is confusing. I have seen where Giles Galliol is the brother of Reginald de Ballieul, as well as the son.

This article does confirm Reginald's marriage to Amica de Montgomery, niece of Robert Montgomery, so this connection is correct, but Reginald seems to stand alone sperate from the Balliols.

I would add his three descendants, AND change the coat of arms depicted. Armes de la Famille de BAILLEUL-EN-GOUFFERN: " D'hermines, à la croix de gueules ". and can be found here:https://gw.geneanet.org/fgautier1?lang=en&pz=francois&nz=ga...

Any connection to the Balliol family in Northumberland and Scotland needs further research. I've come across a 576-page thesis on the Balliols that might be illuminating located here: https://dspace.stir.ac.uk/bitstream/1893/2533/1/Beam%20%282005%29%2...

Sincerely,

David Vincent Bigelow

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Rainald de Bailal, brother of Warin "le Chauvre" married his widow AMIERIA, niece of Earl Roger de Montgomery, c 1086.

Links

• http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/NORMAN%20NOBILITY.htm#_Toc287693355
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Sheriff_of_Shropshire#13th_and_1...