John Comyn

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• Name	John Comyn
  Birth	of Badenoch, Scotland   [1, 2]
  Gender	Male
  Death	10 Feb 1306	Dumfries, Scotland   [1, 3]
  Person ID	I17326	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of AP, Ancestor of DGH, Ancestor of JTS, Ancestor of TSW, Ancestor of TWK
  Last Modified	31 Aug 2020

  
  

  Father	John Comyn,   b. of Badenoch, Scotland d. Bef 26 May 1302
  Mother	Eleanor de Balliol
  Marriage	Between 1279 and 1283  [3]
  Family ID	F10785	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Joan de Valence
  Marriage	Bef 3 Sep 1296  [3]
  Children	1. John Comyn   d. 24 Jun 1314, Bannockburn, Stirlingshire, Scotland + 2. Elizabeth Comyn,   b. 1 Nov 1299   d. 20 Nov 1372 (Age 73 years)
  Family ID	F10784	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	30 Aug 2018

  
  

• Notes

  Fought the English at Falkirk and at Roslin. Like his father, he was nicknamed "Red" Comyn; also like his father, he was deeply involved in the factional fights that characterized Scottish political life in his day and age. He was stabbed to death by Robert de Brus (later Robert I, King of Scots) and his followers in the Church of Friars Minors in Dumfries, allegedly because he opposed Brus's plan for insurrection.

  
  

• Sources

  [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. [S317] The Bulkeley Genealogy by Donald Lines Jacobus. New Haven, Connecticut: 1933. [S142] Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families by Douglas Richardson. Salt Lake City, 2013.