Balliol or Baliol, Edward de c.1283-1364
King of Scotland

The elder son of John de Balliol, he landed with 3,400 followers at Kinghorn, Fife (1332), accompanied by the barons displaced by Robert Bruce, who were bent on recovering their forfeited Scottish estates. At Dupplin Moor, Perthshire, they surprised and routed the Scottish army under the new regent, the Earl of Mar, and in September he was crowned King of Scotland at Scone. Less than three months later, he was himself surprised at Annan and fled across the Border on an unsaddled horse. Two attempts to regain Scotland (1334-35) were unsuccessful and he eventually resigned his claims to the Scottish throne to Edward III (1356) in return for a pension of �2,000. He died without heirs.