John Comyn

- Bef 1302

• Name	John Comyn
  Birth	of Badenoch, Scotland   [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, Ancestor of TSW, Ancestor of TWK
  Last Modified	31 Aug 2020

  
  

  Father	John Comyn,   b. of Badenoch, Scotland d. 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 d. 10 Feb 1306, Dumfries, Scotland
  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

  [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. [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.