Biography of John "Empty Coat" I King Scotland 1249-1314
Paternal Family Tree: Balliol
Maternal Family Tree: Mathilde Unknown Countess Évreux 1120-1169
1281 Marriage of King John of Scotland and Isabella Warenne
Around 1249 John "Empty Coat" I King Scotland was born to John Balliol (age 41) and Dervorguilla Galloway (age 39).
On 25 Oct 1268 [his father] John Balliol (age 60) died.
On 09 Feb 1281 John "Empty Coat" I King Scotland (age 32) and Isabella Warenne were married. She the daughter of John Warenne 6th Earl Surrey (age 50) and Alice Lusignan Countess of Surrey. They were fourth cousins. He a great x 5 grandson of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England.
Around 1283 [his son] Edward Balliol I King Scotland was born to John "Empty Coat" I King Scotland (age 34) and [his wife] Isabella Warenne.
On 15 Dec 1286 [his brother-in-law] William Warenne was killed in a tournament.
On 28 Jan 1290 [his mother] Dervorguilla Galloway (age 80) died.
On 30 Nov 1292 John "Empty Coat" I King Scotland (age 43) was crowned I King Scotland.
On 27 Apr 1296 Battle of Dunbar was fought between [his father-in-law] John Warenne 6th Earl Surrey (age 65) and John "Empty Coat" I King Scotland (age 47), his son in law. John Strathbogie 9th Earl Atholl (age 30) and John Comyn 3rd Earl Buchan were captured. The English routed the disorganised Scots in a single charge. Few died; many were captured.
After 27 Apr 1296 John "Empty Coat" I King Scotland (age 47) was imprisoned at Tower of London [Map].
John of Fordun's Chronicle. On the 27th of July 1302, [Note. The date here confusing since the Battle of Roslyn] is reported to have taken place on 24 Feb 1303] took place the great and famous engagement between the Scots and English, at Roslyn [Map], where the English were defeated, though with great difficulty. From the beginning of the first war which ever broke out between the Scots and English, it is said, there never was so desperate a struggle, or one in which the stoutness of knightly prowess shone forth so brightly. The commander and leader in this struggle was John Comyn (age 33), the son. Now this was how this struggle came about, and the manner thereof. After the battle fought at Falkirk, the king of England (age 63) came not in person, for the nonce, this side of the water of Forth; but sent a good large force, which plundered the whole land of Fife, with all the lands lying near the town of Perth [Map], after having killed a great many of the dwellers in those lands. On the return of this force, with countless spoils, that king (age 63) hied him home again with his host. Now this was brought about, doubtless, by God's agency: for had he made a lengthened stay then, or after the battle of Dunbar and the seizure of King John (age 53), he would either have subjugated the whole land of Scotland, and the dwellers therein, to his sway, or made it a waste with naught but floods and stones. But the goodness of God, Who alone tends and heals after wounds, so governed the actions and time of that king, that, being stirred up to battle, and engrossed with sundry wars, he could not put off all other matters, and give himself up to subduing this kingdom. So that king of England (age 63) went back with his men, having first appointed the officers of the sheriffdoms, and the wardens of the castles, in the districts beyond the water of Forth, which were then fully and wholly subject unto his sway - with the exception of a few outlaws (or, indeed, robbers), of Scottish birth, who were lurking in the woods, and could not, because of their misdeeds, submit to the laws. But John Comyn (age 33), then guardian of Scotland, and Simon Eraser, with their followers, day and night did their best to harass and annoy, by their great prowess, the aforesaid king's officers and bailiffs; and from the time of that king's departure, for four years and more, the English and the Anglicized Scots were harried by them, in manifold ways, by mutual slaughter and carnage, according to the issue of various wars.
On 25 Nov 1314 John "Empty Coat" I King Scotland (age 65) died at Château de Hélicourt.
[his father] John Balliol and [his mother] Dervorguilla Galloway were married. She a great x 4 granddaughter of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England.
William Warenne and Joan Vere were married. She the daughter of Robert de Vere 5th Earl of Oxford and Alice Sanford Countess of Oxford. He the son of John Warenne 6th Earl Surrey and Alice Lusignan Countess of Surrey.
Kings Wessex: Great x 6 Grand Son of King Edmund "Ironside" I of England
Kings England: Great x 5 Grand Son of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England
Kings Scotland: Great x 4 Grand Son of Malcolm III King Scotland
Kings Franks: Great x 13 Grand Son of Louis "Pious" King Aquitaine I King Franks
Kings France: Great x 6 Grand Son of Robert "Pious" II King France
Father: John Balliol
John "Empty Coat" I King Scotland 5 x Great Grand Son of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England
GrandFather: Alan Lord of Galloway
Mother: Dervorguilla Galloway 4 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Malcolm III King Scotland
Great x 3 Grandfather: King David I of Scotland
Great x 4 Grandmother: Margaret Wessex Queen Consort Scotland
Great x 2 Grandfather: Henry Dunkeld 3rd Earl Huntingdon 1st Earl of Northumbria
Great x 4 Grandfather: Waltheof Northumbria 1st Earl of Northampton 1st Earl Huntingdon
Great x 3 Grandmother: Maud Queen Consort Scotland
Great x 4 Grandmother: Judith Flanders Countess Huntingdon
Great x 1 Grandfather: David Dunkeld 8th Earl Huntingdon
Great x 4 Grandfather: William Warenne 1st Earl Surrey
Great x 3 Grandfather: William Warenne 2nd Earl Surrey
Great x 4 Grandmother: Gundred Countess of Surrey
Great x 2 Grandmother: Ada Warenne Countess Huntingdon and Northumbria
Great x 4 Grandfather: Hugh "Great" Capet
Great x 3 Grandmother: Elizabeth Capet Countess Leicester, Meulan and Surrey
Great x 4 Grandmother: Adelaide I Countess Vermandois
GrandMother: Margaret Dunkeld 3 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Ranulf le Meschin Gernon 3rd Earl Chester
Great x 3 Grandfather: Ranulf Gernon 4th Earl Chester
Great x 4 Grandmother: Lucy Bolingbroke Countess Chester
Great x 2 Grandfather: Hugh de Kevelioc Gernon 5th Earl Chester Great Grand Son of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Robert Normandy 1st Earl Gloucester Son of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Matilda Fitzrobert Countess Chester Grand Daughter of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Mabel Fitzhamon Countess Gloucester
Great x 1 Grandmother: Matilda Gernon Countess Huntingdon 2 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Amaury Montfort Count Évreux
Great x 3 Grandfather: Simon "Chauve" Montfort 4th Count Évreux
Great x 2 Grandmother: Bertrade Montfort Countess Chester
Great x 3 Grandmother: Mathilde Unknown Countess Évreux