This person is from the Norman Balliols of Bailleul-Neuville and is unrelated to the famous Balliol family of Bailleul-en-Vimeu in Picardy. Barrow, Kingdom of the Scots, 289. He appears in the following of Ada de Warenne (d.1178), usually appearing as a witness along with Alexander de St Martin and Hugh Gifford, lord of Yester.