Alexander Comyn

- Bef 1290

• Name	Alexander Comyn  [1]
  Born	of Buchan, Aberdeenshire, Scotland   [2]
  Gender	Male
  Alternate death	1289  [3]
  Died	Bef 6 Apr 1290  [2, 4, 5]
  Person ID	I1290	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of TNH, Ancestor of TWK
  Last Modified	6 Apr 2020

  
  

  Father	William Comyn,   d. 1233
  Mother	Margaret,   d. Between 8 Apr 1242 and 31 Dec 1243
  Married	Abt 1210  [2, 6]
  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 + 3. Marjory Comyn
  Last Modified	21 Mar 2020
  Family ID	F4680	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Earl of Buchan. Justiciar, 1251-55 and 1257-89. Called by Complete Peerage "one of the most powerful nobles of the time."

  
  

• 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. [S76] The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press, 2004-ongoing. [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".