John Comyn I of Badenoch
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John Comyn (Cumyn) (c. Template:TrimScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". – c. Template:TrimScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".) was Lord of Badenoch in Scotland. He was Justiciar of Galloway in 1258.[1][2] He held lands in NithsdaleTemplate:Sfn (Dalswinton, a Comyn stronghold,[3][4] and Duncow[5]) and Tynedale.Template:Sfn
Life
The Comyn family were in effective power in Scotland from 1249 to 1255, when Alexander III of Scotland was a minor; John was one of those with court influence.Template:Sfn The Comyns were ousted by Alan Durward, but returned to power in 1257-8, before provoking a strong English reaction.Template:Sfn[6]
He fought for Henry III of England at the Battle of Lewes (1265), with John Baliol the elder and Robert Bruce the elder,[7] and was captured.[8] In 1267 he was given licence to crenellate Tarset Castle in Tynedale (by present-day Lanehead, near Hexham), by Henry III; Tarset had previously been held by Walter Comyn.[9]
He started the construction of Blair Castle with a tower built in 1269.[10] The place was soon taken back by David, Earl of Atholl.[11]
John was the son of a Richard Comyn and was the grandson (through Richard) of William Comyn, jure uxoris Earl of Buchan.Template:Fact
In 1275, John was one of the leaders of a Scottish expedition that crushed a Manx revolt against the Scottish Crown.Template:Fact
According to the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica he died in 1274, and was nephew of Alexander Comyn, Earl of Buchan, Constable of Scotland, and of Walter Comyn, Earl of Mentieth.[12] His date of death is also given as 1277.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
He succeeded his uncle Walter, in 1258, as Lord of Badenoch, and was succeeded by his son John II, the "Black Comyn". John I was known as the "Red Comyn", the nickname more commonly applied to his grandson.[13]
Family
His first wife was called Eva, and appears to have been the mother of at least his oldest children.[14]
His second wife was named Alice and referred to in one document after his death as Lady Alice de Roos (Ros).[15]Template:Efn Alice was the daughter of William de Roos of Helmsley and Lucy FitzPiers.
He is known to have had the following issue:
- John of Badenoch (died 1303), succeeded his father, married Eleanor de Balliol, daughter of John de Balliol and Dervorguilla of Galloway; had issue.
- William of Kirkintilloch (died 1291), married Isabella Russell, daughter of John Russell and Isabella, Countess of Menteith; without issue.
- Alexander Comyn of Dunphail (died 1330), married Eva, widow of Alexander Murray, had issue.
- Robert Comyn (died 1306), married Margaret Comyn, daughter of William Comyn of Lochaber; had issue.
- John Comyn of Ulceby; had issue.
- a daughter who married Alexander of Argyll; had issue.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
- a daughter who married Sir William Galbraith, 4th of that Ilk; had issue.[16]
- a daughter who married firstly Richard Siward and secondly Geoffrey de Mowbray; had issue.[17]
- a daughter who married Sir Andrew Moray; had issue.[18]
Notes
Citations
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- ↑ G. W. S. Barrow, The Kingdom of the Scots: Government, Church and Society from the Eleventh to the Fourteenth Century (2003), p. 86.
- ↑ Michael Brown, The Wars of Scotland (2004), p. 53.
- ↑ Overview of Dalswinton
- ↑ http://lmid1.rcahms.gov.uk/pls/portal/newcanmore.details_gis?inumlink=65896Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
- ↑ Historical perspective for Nithsdale
- ↑ Michael Prestwich, Plantagenet England 1225-1360 (2005), p. 230.
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- ↑ Battlefield Report (PDF), p. 5.
- ↑ Tarset Castle Template:Webarchive
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- ↑ Richardson, Royal Ancestry (2013) Vol.II p.207.
- ↑ Douglas Richardson, Kimball G. Everingham, Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families (2005), p. 210; gives his death as in 1273-8. Also see newer work Royal Ancestry (2013) Vol.II p.207.
- ↑ Clan Galbraith Association Galbraiths of the Lennox
- ↑ Medieval English genealogy: Which John de Mowbray was the Brother of Christiana de Plumpton? Part 2
- ↑ Balfour Paul J., Scots Peerage voll i, p. 506
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