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English: Seal of Dervorguilla of Galloway. It is appended to the foundation charter of Balliol College, Oxford. The shields are, clockwise:
  • Her personal arms as a daughter of the Lord of Galloway: azure, a lion rampant argent crowned or
  • The arms of her stepmother Margaret of Huntingdon: or, three piles gules
  • The arms of her mother, a daughter of Roger de Lacy, Constable of Chester: per pale gules and azure, three garbs or
  • The arms of her husband John Balliol: gules, an orle argent
Date The illustration dates no later than 1866, the year the book was published. The seal itself dates to the late 13th century.
Source Laing, H, ed. (1866). Supplemental Descriptive Catalogue of Ancient Scottish Seals, Royal, Baronial, Ecclesiastical, and Municipal, Embracing the Period from A.D. 1150 to the Eighteenth Century. Edinburgh: Edmonston and Douglas. The seal appears in plate 5, figure 1. The seal is noted on pages xxv, 14 (§ 71).
Author Unknown. Not credited in book.
Other versions The associated counter-seal: File:Counterseal of Dervorguilla of Galloway.png.

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