Alexander Comyn (died 1308)

Alexander Comyn (died 1308), Sheriff of Aberdeen was a fourteenth-century Scottish nobleman. He was a younger son of Alexander Comyn, Earl of Buchan.[2] The latter died in 1290, whereupon the earldom of Buchan was inherited by Alexander's elder brother, John (died 1308).[3]

Seal of Alexander Comyn.[1]

Alexander was married to Joanna Latimer, an Englishwoman with whom he had issue Alice and Margaret. Alice married Henry de Beaumont, son of Louis of Brienne and Agnès de Beaumont, Vicomte of Beaumont. Margaret married firstly John Ross son of William II, Earl of Ross and secondly and secondly William Lindsay of Symertoun.[4] Alexander was Sheriff of Aberdeen in 1297–1304.[5] During the First War of Scottish Independence, Alexander is recorded to have campaigned with Lachlann Mac Ruaidhrí (fl. 1297–1307/1308).[6]

Alexander died in 1308, not long before the death of his brother John, who had no children by his own wife. The title to the earldom, thereafter, passed to Alexander's daughters, Alice and Margaret.[7]

Citations
  1. McAndrew (2006) pp. 43 n. 19, 44; Macdonald (1904) p. 66 § 587; Fraser (1888) pp. 454 § 4, 464 fig. 14; Laing (1850) p. 42 § 223.
  2. McAndrew (2006) pp. 43–44.
  3. Barrow (1988) p. 156.
  4. McAndrew (2006) p. 44.
  5. Young (1999) p. 217 n. 89; Barrow (1988) p. 156.
  6. Watson (2004); Barrow (1988) pp. 107, 156.
  7. McAndrew (2006) p. 44.

References
  • Barrow, GWS (1988) [1965]. Robert Bruce & the Community of the Realm of Scotland (3rd ed.). Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. ISBN 0 85224 539 4.
  • Fraser, W, ed. (1888). The Red Book of Menteith. Vol. 2. Edinburgh. OL 25295262M – via Internet Archive.
  • Laing, H (1850). Descriptive Catalogue of Impressions From Ancient Scottish Seals, Royal, Baronial, Ecclesiastical, and Municipal, Embracing a Period From A.D. 1094 to the Commonwealth. Edinburgh: Bannatyne Club. OL 24829707M – via Internet Archive.
  • Macdonald, WR (1904). Scottish Armorial Seals. Edinburgh: William Green and Sons. OL 23704765M – via Internet Archive.
  • McAndrew, BA (2006). Scotland's Historic Heraldry. Woodbridge: Boydell Press. ISBN 9781843832614 – via Google Books.
  • Watson, F (2004). "Comyn, John, seventh earl of Buchan (c. 1250–1308)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/6047. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  • Young, A (1999). "The Comyns and Anglo-Scottish Relations (1286–1314)". In Prestwich, M; Britnell, R; Frame, R (eds.). Proceedings of the Durham Conference, 1997. Thirteenth Century England (series vol. 7). Woodbridge: The Boydell Press. pp. 207–222. ISBN 978-0-85115-719-1. ISSN 0269-6967 – via Google Books.
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