Editing John Balliol (section)

== Early life ==
Little of Balliol's early life is known. He was born between 1248 and 1250 at an unknown location; possibilities include [[Galloway]], [[Picardy]], and [[Barnard Castle]], [[County Durham]].<ref name="ODNB">G. P. Stell, "John [John de Balliol] (c. 1249–1314)", ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, Sept 2004; online edn, Oct 2005 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/1209, accessed 25 July 2007].</ref> He was the son of [[John, 5th Baron Balliol]], Lord of Barnard Castle (and founder of [[Balliol College]], Oxford), and his wife [[Dervorguilla of Galloway]], daughter of [[Alan, Lord of Galloway]] and granddaughter of [[David, Earl of Huntingdon]] — the brother of [[William the Lion]].<ref name="dunbar115">Dunbar, Sir Archibald H., Bt., ''Scottish Kings – A Revised Chronology of Scottish History 1005–1625'', Edinburgh, 1899: p. 115</ref><ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9vL8CgAAQBAJ&q=john+balliol+death+1313+history&pg=PA75 |title=The Oxford Companion to British History |last1=Cannon |first1=John |last2=Crowcroft |first2=Robert |date=15 October 2015 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=9780191044816 |page=75 |language=en}}</ref> From his mother he inherited significant lands in Galloway and claim to lordship over the Gallovidians, as well as various English and Scottish estates of the Huntingdon inheritance; from his father he inherited large estates in England and France, such as [[Hitchin]], in [[Hertfordshire]].<ref name="DNB">{{Cite DNB |wstitle=Baliol, John de (1249-1315) |volume=03 |last=Mackay |first=Aeneas James George |author-link=Aeneas James George Mackay |pages=66-70 |short=1}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Huyshe |first1=Wentworth |title=The Royal Manor of Hitchins and Its Lords Harold and the Balliols |date=1906 |publisher=Macmillan |location=London |page=136 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9iw6AQAAMAAJ&dq=john+balliol+estates+in+England+and+France,+such+as+Hitchin,+in+Hertfordshire&pg=PA136 |access-date=9 January 2022}}</ref>