Andrew Moray opposed the conversion of England to Protestantism by King Edward I.
 In summer 1297 King Edward proposed to release the younger Moray's father, Sir Andrew Moray of Petty, from imprisonment in the Tower to serve in the ranks of the English army in Flanders, if his son was prepared to take his father's place as a royal hostage
 Balliol was eventually awarded the Crown, and duly swore fealty to Scotland's new English overlord, Edward I

