Nielsen Hayden genealogy
Alexander Comyn

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Name Alexander Comyn [1] Born of Buchan, Aberdeenshire, Scotland [2]
Gender Male Died Bef 6 Apr 1290 [2, 3, 4] Person ID I1290 Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of TNH, Ancestor of TWK Last Modified 12 Oct 2018
Father William Comyn, d. 1233 Mother Margaret, d. 1243 Married Abt 1210 [2, 5] Family ID F3334 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Elizabeth de Quincy, d. Bef 4 May 1303 Children + 1. Elizabeth Comyn, d. Bef 17 Feb 1329 + 2. Alexander Comyn, d. 1308 Last Modified 3 Aug 2018 Family ID F4680 Group Sheet | Family Chart
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Notes - Earl of Buchan. Justiciar, 1251-55 and 1257-89. Called by Complete Peerage "one of the most powerful nobles of the time."
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Sources - [S2338] Bruce McAndrew, "The Collective Memory in Scottish Heraldry: Fiction, Fact, and Fancy." Foundations 10:62, 2018.
- [S128] The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant. Full citation details here.
- [S142] Royal Ancestry, by Douglas Richardson. Kimball G. Everingham, ed. 2013.
- [S145] Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700, by Frederick Lewis Weis and Walter Lee Sheppard, Jr. 8th edition, William R. Beall & Kaleen E. Beall, eds. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2004, 2006, 2008.
- [S1016] Medieval English Ancestors of Robert Abell by Carl Boyer III. Santa Clarita, California, 2001., "no later than 1214".
- [S2338] Bruce McAndrew, "The Collective Memory in Scottish Heraldry: Fiction, Fact, and Fancy." Foundations 10:62, 2018.