Individual Details
Sir John "the Black, the Elder, Lord of Badenoch" Comyn
(Abt 1250 - 1303)
[[Category:Guardians of Scotland]]
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== Biography =="John Comyn inherited the headship of the Comyns' senior, Badenoch, branch and became the second Red Comyn. His landed power included: Badenoch and Lochaber, with chief castles at Ruthven, Lochindorb, and Inverlochy; influence in Atholl, possibly including the castle at Blair Atholl; Bedrule and Scraesburgh, Roxburghshire; Dalswinton, with its castle, in Dumfriesshire; Findogask and Ochtertyre in Perthshire; Machan in the Clyde valley; and Lenzie and Kirkintilloch in Dunbartonshire after his brother William's death (after c.1290). He also had charge of the castles of Jedburgh and Clunie from Alexander III; and in England he had Tarset and Thornton in Tynedale, Northumberland, and Ulseby in Lincolnshire. He was religious patron to Inchaffray, Cambuskenneth, and Coupar Angus abbeys.' (Ref: ODNB)
John was one of four guardians appointed during [[THE FIRST INTERREGNUM|THE FIRST INTERREGNUM]].
He died, c.1302, at his castle of Lochindorb and was succeeded by his son, John, who married Joan de Valence, cousin of the English king.
== Sources ==
* '''Royal Ancestry by Douglas Richardson Vol. I page 232'''
* Pedigree Resource File CD 49 Abbreviation: Pedigree Resource File CD 49 Publication: (Salt Lake City, UT: Intellectual Reserve, Inc., 2002) * Dictionary of National Biography, Volumes 1-20, 22 Author: Ancestry.com Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2003.Original data - Sir Leslie Stephen, ed.. The Dictionary of National Biography Founded in 1882 by George Smith. London, England: Oxford University Press, 1921-1922.Original data: Sir Les Note: * Title: Gloucestershire, England, Extracted Parish Records Author: Ancestry.com Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2001.Original data - Electronic databases created from various publications of parish and probate records.Original data: Electronic databases created from various publications of parish and Note: * http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=7122234&pid=2249
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== Biography ==
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* http://www.thepeerage.com/p7225.htm#i72242
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== Biography =="John Comyn inherited the headship of the Comyns' senior, Badenoch, branch and became the second Red Comyn. His landed power included: Badenoch and Lochaber, with chief castles at Ruthven, Lochindorb, and Inverlochy; influence in Atholl, possibly including the castle at Blair Atholl; Bedrule and Scraesburgh, Roxburghshire; Dalswinton, with its castle, in Dumfriesshire; Findogask and Ochtertyre in Perthshire; Machan in the Clyde valley; and Lenzie and Kirkintilloch in Dunbartonshire after his brother William's death (after c.1290). He also had charge of the castles of Jedburgh and Clunie from Alexander III; and in England he had Tarset and Thornton in Tynedale, Northumberland, and Ulseby in Lincolnshire. He was religious patron to Inchaffray, Cambuskenneth, and Coupar Angus abbeys.' (Ref: ODNB)
John was one of four guardians appointed during [[THE FIRST INTERREGNUM|THE FIRST INTERREGNUM]].
He died, c.1302, at his castle of Lochindorb and was succeeded by his son, John, who married Joan de Valence, cousin of the English king.
== Sources ==
* '''Royal Ancestry by Douglas Richardson Vol. I page 232'''
* Pedigree Resource File CD 49 Abbreviation: Pedigree Resource File CD 49 Publication: (Salt Lake City, UT: Intellectual Reserve, Inc., 2002) * Dictionary of National Biography, Volumes 1-20, 22 Author: Ancestry.com Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2003.Original data - Sir Leslie Stephen, ed.. The Dictionary of National Biography Founded in 1882 by George Smith. London, England: Oxford University Press, 1921-1922.Original data: Sir Les Note: * Title: Gloucestershire, England, Extracted Parish Records Author: Ancestry.com Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2001.Original data - Electronic databases created from various publications of parish and probate records.Original data: Electronic databases created from various publications of parish and Note: * http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=7122234&pid=2249
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== Biography ==
== Sources ==
* http://www.thepeerage.com/p7225.htm#i72242
Events
| Birth | Abt 1250 | Inverness, Scotland | |||
| Death | 1303 | Lochindorb Castle, Scotland | |||
| Reference No | 2058513 | ||||
| Reference No | 2087241 | ||||
| Reference No | 60 |
Families
| Father | Sir John Comyn (1210 - 1291) |
| Mother | Marian Galloway (1216 - 1300) |
| Sibling | Dornagilla "Julienne" Comyn (1250 - 1330) |