Location of Ballon in ancient province of Maine
Hamelin de Ballon (or Baalun, Baalan, Balun, Balodun, Balon, etc.)[1] (born ca. 1060,[2] died 5 March 1105/6) was an early Norman Baron and the first Baron Abergavenny and Lord of Over Gwent and Abergavenny; he also served William Rufus.[3]
- ^ The name is usually modernised to conform with the modern French cartographic spelling of Ballon, Sarthe
- ^ Hamelin de Barham; Hamelin de Ballon (Balun / Baeluns), lord of Much Marcle, Herefordshire; lord of Abergavenny , on site Monastice Wales. Retrieved 20 November 2012.
- ^ J. Horace Round, "The Family of Ballon and the Conquest of South Wales", Studies in Peerage and Family History (1901), pp. 181-215.