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ROBERT DE COMINES,* CUMIN ox COMYN;
Came into England with William the Conqueror, and was created Earl and Governor of Northumberland,
1068.-(See Hume's History of England.) He was slain in battle, near Durham, Jan. 28, in 1069,1
when endeavouring to subjugate the North of England. His name is on the Roll of Battle Abbey.
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John de Comyn. William de Comyn, Chancellor to King David I., in 1133.
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William de Comyn, married A.D. 1141, Maud, Richard de Comyn (called the Chancellor's nephew), married Hexilda, the grand-daughter
dau. of Thurstan Banaster, subsequently of Donald Bane, king of Scotland, and younger brother of Malcom Cean Mohr. He
married to William de Hastings, A.D. 1150. succeeded to the family estates in Northumberland, and was Lord of the Castle of
Northallerton, Yorkshire, in 1144; and died circa 1189.-(See Sir H. Nicholas's
Historical Peerage.)
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John Coryyn, who William de Comyn (Earl of Buchan i! 1189), was a noted diplomatist, and Odo Clomyn, Ydonea Comyn,
died circa 1159, went to England on an embassy from William the Lion, in 1200, to an Ecclesiastic married to Adam
vit. pat.-(See congratulate king John, of England, on his accession. In the year 1212 he was Fitz Gilbert,
Kelso Chartulary.) appointed Guardian of Moray, and towards the close of the reign of king ancestor of the
William (1209), and during the greater part of that of Alexander the IInd, Hamiltons.
he held the office of Great Justiciar of the kingdom of Scotland. He
maintained the peace of the Kingdom during the rebellions which broke out
in Moray in 1212 and 1229. He died in 1233, aged 70.+ He married
twice, and at the beginning of the 13th century (in 1209), became Earl of
Buchan, in right of his second wife Marjorie, only daughter and heiress of
Fergus; Earl of Buchan. He founded the Abbey of Deir, 1218, and was
buried there.
By his first wife, Matilda By his second wife Marjorie,
Urquhart (daughter of Frederic countess of Buchan, who died
Urquhart by his first wife circa 1237-8.
Coetissa, daughter of Bancho, |
Thane ofLochaber).-(See Tre |
of the Royal House of Stewart.) |
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Richard Comyn, Margaret Comyn, Walter I Comyn, Alexander Comyn, Earl of Buchan. William Comyn. Elizabeth, married
died in 1249. married Bartime created Lord of He was not designated Earl of - William, Earl of
| Setoun, ancestor Badenoch, in Buchan till 1243, after the death Fergus Comyn. Marr.
John Comyn (the of the Earls of 1229. Married of his mother. He married -
1st Red Comyn). Seton. the eldest dau. of Elizabeth, the 2nd daughter of Jean, mar. Gilbert
He was a distin- - the Earl of Menteith Roger de Quincy, who was created de Haye, one of
guished soldier AgnesComyn,mar. Became Earl of Winchester in 1235. In the Regents in
and statesman in Philip deMelgdrum Earl of Monteith right of his wife he succeeded to 1255-8.
the reign of in 1231, and died the Galloway estates in 1254. He - -
Alexander III,and in 1258. His was one of the Guardians of Scotland Margorie, married
had large estates Countess then in the minority of Alexander Sir John de Keth,
in Galloway. In married Sir John the IIIrd, and Justiciar of the Great Mareschall
1264 along with Russell,by whom kingdom from 1256 to 1269. In who died before
John Baliol and she had one only 1277 and 1282, he was summoned 1270.
Robert Bruce, he daughter mar. to by Edward Ist for expeditions
led troops to William Comyn, against Llewellyn, Prince of
assist Henry III son of the Ist Wales. He was appointed one
against his bar- Red Comyn. (See of the six regents during the
ous. He married infra.) minority of Margaret, the Maid
Mary or Marian, of Norway. In 1264 he was sent
dau. to Alan, lord on an expedition gainst the
ofGalloway, and Hebrides. He died in l208.
sister to Devorgille |
(Buchanan, |
and shaw's history |
of Province |
of Moray). He |
died in l273.(See |
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William I Comyn, John Comyn, Lord of Badenoch, Alexander Robert Comyn, Four daughters, |
who, in right of in 1258,(the Black Comyn, died killed with his the 3rd of whom |
his wife, dau. of Comyn) one of the six Guar- without nephew at married Alaster |
the Countess of dians of Scotland, one of the issue. Dumfries, 13064. de Ergadia, Lord |
Menteith (the competitors for the Crown His son Richard of Lorn, who |
relict of his uncle of Scotland. Married Marjorie, was ambassador had large |
Walter, married sister to John Baliol, to Paris and the possessions in the |
to Sir John Russell) and died at his Castle of ancestor of Sir Isle of Man. |
got half the Lochindorb, in 1299 |
Earldom of Mentieth | +--------------------------+-----------------------+---------+-------------+
in free Barony; John Comyn (the IInd Red | | | |
the other half, Comyn), Lord of Badenoch. John Comyn, Earl of Alexander Comyn, William Comyn, Bridget, married
together with Married Jobanna, sister of Buchan, was enfeoffed last Earl of (Frere au Conte Patrick Dunbar,
the title of Earl, Aymer de Valence, earl of in the Manor of Whit- Buchan. He de Boghau). Eighth Earl of
went to the Pembroke, and cousin to wic, in Leicestershire swore fealty to Rector of the Dunbar and
second sister of Edward Ist. Was knighted 1283. He succeeded Edward Ist, in Church of St. March.
the above Coun- in 1267, and led the Scotch his fatherin l288,and 1297. Retired Mary, and pro- -
tess, and her in the invasion of the Isle of was high constable to England, and vost of the Egidia, married
husband, Walter Man, in 1270 (?) He was of Scotland. Swore died about 1312. Canonry of St. Malise, Earl of
Stewart, took taken prisoner at Dunbar, fealty to Edward Ist, | Andrews. (See Strathern, son of
the name and and sent to London, but at Norham, 1291. | Prynne. p. 651; Mary, Queen of Man
title of Menteith. obtained his release through Obtained leave in | and Palgrave, p.
He died without the intercession of his wife. 1292 to dig for lead | 338; also -
issue, A.D. 1291. He and Sir Simon Fraser in the Calf of Man, | Appendix A.) Agnes, mar. Gilbert
gained a victory over the to cover the towers | de Umphraville,
English at Roslin, in 1303, of his castle of Crug- | Eighth Earl of
but surrendered to Edward leton in Galloway. | Angus.
Ist at Strathorde in 1304. Retired to England, |
He was murdered by Robert was forfeited by | Two other daus.;
Bruce, in the Church at Bruce, and died about | married to Sir
Dumfries, Feb. 1306-7. 1313. He married | William de Brechin,
Isabel, daughter of | and Sir Nicholas de Soulis
Duncan,Earl of Fyffe, |
who crowned Robert |
Bruce at Scone, 1307 |
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A son, (John?) Margaret, Violet, married- Alice Comyn, married Margaret Comyn, mar.
who died who became as to Henry de Beaumont, to John de Ross, son
without issue. the 2nd wife second wife lord of Man, of William, Earl of
-(See Note of William to William and, in right of his Ross, (descended from
61.) de Lindesay, Urquhart, of wife,Lord of Whitwic, Ferquhard Macintagart,
and died Cromarty, in Leicestershire, and Earl of Ross. in
about 1306. styled de Earl of Buchan. the reign of Alexander
+-------------------------+------------------+------+--------+---------------+ Monte Alto. Beaumont's sister was IInd), who died in
| | | | the Lady Isabella de 1251, leaving a son
John Comyn, fled William Comyn, Joan Comyn, married to Elizabeth Comyn, Vescy, of Alnwick. William, and a dau.,
to England on made prisoner David de Strathbolgi, married to Lord Beaumont died Christina, married to
the death of his at Stirlingl314, Earl of Athol,who, hav- Richard Lord in 1340. Olave Godredson, king
father, in 1307. and died with- ing a grant of the Manor Talbot, ancestor of | of Man.)-(See Appendix C}#
He died in 1325. out issue.-See of Chilham, was sum- the Earls of |
By his wife Mar- Burke'sExtinct moned to Parliament, Shrewsbury. |
garet, he had Peerage. as a baron, 1322, and See Jacob's |
one only son. died in 1335.§ Peerage. |
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Adomar Aymer David de Strathbolgi (Earl of Athol) 2nd baron, being a |
Comyn,who minor of 3 years of age, on the death of his father |
died in 1316, was put under the guardianship of Henry de Beaumont. |
vit. pat. By He inherited the lands of his uncle, John |
an inquest held Comyn, and also lands as one of the co-heirs of Aymer |
that same year, de Valence, earl of Pembroke. |
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and Elizabeth, John de Beaumont (second baron Beaumont, but Elizabeth Beaumont, Three other Isabel Beaumont 5th
were named his never entitled Earl of Buchan, or Lord of Man), married to Nicholas daughters. dau.,married to Henry
heirs. (See His- was summoned to Parliament 25th Feb. 1342, de Audley, son and Plantagenet, Duke of
toric Peerage of He married Lady Alinore Plantagenet, 5th heir to James Lord Lancaster.
England, by Sir daughter of Henry, Earl of Lancaster, and Audley, of Heley. |
H. Nicholas, p. great grand-daughter of Henry IIIrd, and died No issue. - (See Blanche Plantagenet,
123; see also in 1342, leaving only one child, a son Henry, Burke's Extinct mar. John of Gaunt.
Note 61 infra from whom are descended-the Beaumonts, of Peerage.) |
Coleorton, in Leicestershire; the Beaumonts of KING HENRY IV.
Stoughton Grange; the Beaumonts of Burton
on-Trent; and the Beaumonts of Weduesbury,
Staffordshire.
* According to Sir Bernard Burke, John, Count de Comyn, and Baron of Tonsberg,
in Normandy, was the son of Baldwin, a distin- guisbed Soldier of the Cross
; and grandson of Charles, Due d'Ingeheim, fifth son of the Emperor Charlemagne.
He was the founder of the noble house of Blois, in France; and progenitor of
the noble families of De Burg and Burke, in Ireland. John, Count de ('omyn,
and Baron of Tonsberg, had two sons: (1.) Harlowen de Burg, who married Arlotta,
mother of William the Conqueror; (2.) Eustace, Baron de Tonsberg. Harlowen (who
died before his father), left, by his wife Arlotta, two sons: (1.) Odo, Bishop
of Bayeux, created Earl of Kent, in 1068; (2.) Robert, Count de Moreton, created
Earl of Cornwall, 1068. Both the sons were with their half-brother, William
the Conqueror, at the battle of Hastings.
Chronica de Melros, A.D. MLXIX. " Comes Robertus Cumine cum DCCtis fere viris
apud Dunelmum a Norhimbris occiditur."- (See also Speed's History of England.)
Chronica de Melros, A.D. MCCXXXIII. " Obiit Wilhelmus Cumin Comes de Buquhan,
Abbatie de Dere Fund ator."
§ David de Strathbolgie was killed in the forest of Kilbaine, with Walter and
Thomas Comyn, in 1335. His Countess Katharine and her young son, aged three
years, were beseiged in the castle of Lochindorb, from Nov., 1336, to August,
1336, when Edward III. came to her relief in person.
++ The Earl of Dunbar and March, writing to King Henry IV., in 1400, says: Gif
Dame Alice the Beaumont, was your Grand Dame [Great Grandmother (?)] Dame Marjorie
Cumyn was my Grand Dame on t'other side; so that I am bot of the feirde degree
of kyn to you."-(See Pinkerton's History.) Margaret Ross may have married secondly
the Earl of Dunbar and March; and her lands being given to, her first husband,
may have settled on his heirs. Or, the Earl of Dunbar and March, in 1400, may
have made a mistake in a generation, as he was descended from Bridget, eldest
daughter of Alexander Comyn, Earl of Buchan, and aunt to Alice Beaumont and
Margaret Ross.
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