Richard Comyn

- 1182

• Name	Richard Comyn  [1]
  Birth	of Northallerton & Badenoch, Invernessshire, Scotland   [2, 3]
  Gender	Male
  Death	Between 1176 and 1182  [2, 3]
  Person ID	I6942	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of DGH, Ancestor of DK, Ancestor of GFS, Ancestor of JMF, Ancestor of LD, Ancestor of LMW, Ancestor of TNH, Ancestor of TWK, Ancestor of UKL
  Last Modified	5 Mar 2017

  
  

  Family	Hextilda of Tynedale
  Children	+ 1. William Comyn   d. 1233
  Family ID	F1412	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	1 Apr 2016

  
  

• Notes

  Justiciar of Scotland. One of the hostages for the Treaty of Falaise, 1174. His alleged descent from Robert Comyn, eleventh-century Earl of Northumberland, was fastidiously demolished in 1904 by J. Horace Round (citation details below).

  
  

• Sources

  [S1188] J. Horace Round, "The Origin of the Comyns." The Ancestor 10:104, July 1904. [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.