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John Comyn

Male - Bef 1302


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  • Name John Comyn 
    Birth of Badenoch, Scotland Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Gender Male 
    Death Bef 26 May 1302  [2, 3
    Person ID I17341  Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of AP, Ancestor of DGH, Ancestor of JTS
    Last Modified 31 Aug 2020 

    Father John Comyn,   b. of Badenoch, Scotland Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Between 1274 and 1279 
    Mother Eve 
    Family ID F10788  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Eleanor de Balliol 
    Marriage Between 1279 and 1283  [2
    Children 
    +1. John Comyn,   b. of Badenoch, Scotland Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 10 Feb 1306, Dumfries, Scotland Find all individuals with events at this location
    Family ID F10785  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 29 Oct 2017 

  • Notes 
    • Like his son, he was nicknamed "Red" Comyn, although he was more commonly called "Black" Comyn. He was one of the claimants to the Scottish throne in 1291, based on a supposed descent from Donald Bane (d. 1097), younger brother of King Malcolm Canmore. In fact this claim was fanciful, as later established by J. Horace Round. Notably, he dropped it early in the proceedings in order to support his brother-in-law John Balliol.

      Also like his son, he opposed Robert de Brus and was, to some extent, in favor with Edward I as a result.

  • Sources 
    1. [S317] The Bulkeley Genealogy by Donald Lines Jacobus. New Haven, Connecticut: 1933.

    2. [S142] Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families by Douglas Richardson. Salt Lake City, 2013.

    3. [S1526] The Ancestry of Dorothea Poyntz, Wife of Reverend John Owsley, Generations 1-15, Fourth Preliminary Edition, by Ronny O. Bodine and Bro. Thomas Spalding, Jr. 2013.