Alexander Comyn

- Bef 1290

• Name	Alexander Comyn  [1]
  Birth	of Buchan, Aberdeenshire, Scotland   [2]
  Gender	Male
  Alternate death	1289  [3]
  Death	Bef 6 Apr 1290  [2, 4, 5]
  Siblings	1 sibling
  + 1. Alexander Comyn ,   b. of Buchan, Aberdeenshire, Scotland d. Bef 6 Apr 1290 ▻ Elizabeth de Quincy + 2. Elizabeth Comyn   d. 1267 ▻ William of Mar
  Person ID	I1290	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of DGH, Ancestor of DK, Ancestor of JMF, Ancestor of LD, Ancestor of LMW, Ancestor of TNH, Ancestor of TWK, Ancestor of UKL
  Last Modified	6 Apr 2020

  
  

  Father	William Comyn   d. 1233
  Mother	Margaret of Buchan   d. Between 8 Apr 1242 and 31 Dec 1243
  Marriage	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
  Family ID	F4680	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	21 Mar 2020

  
  

• 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 ed. Vicary Gibbs, H. A. Doubleday, Duncan Warrand, Howard de Walden, Geoffrey H. White and R. S. Lea. 2nd edition. 14 volumes (1-13, but volume 12 spanned two books), London, The St. Catherine Press, 1910-1959. Volume 14, "Addenda & Corrigenda," ed. Peter W. Hammond, Gloucestershire, Sutton Publishing, 1998. [S76] The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press, 2004-ongoing. [S142] Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families by Douglas Richardson. Salt Lake City, 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".