John Comyn

John Comyn

Male Abt 1250 - 1303  (53 years)


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  • Name John Comyn 
    Birth Abt 1250  Inverness-shire, Scotland Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Death 1303  Scotland Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I1745  footsteps
    Last Modified 1 Jul 2025 

    Father John Comyn,   b. Abt 1210, Scotland Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Aft 1291, Scotland Find all individuals with events at this location (Age > 82 years) 
    Relationship natural 
    Mother Marian Galloway,   b. 1216, Aryshire, Scotland Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1300, Scotland Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 84 years) 
    Relationship natural 
    Family ID F1238  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Eleanor Balliol,   b. Abt 1253, Durham, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1302, Scotland Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 49 years) 
    Marriage 1274 
    Children 
    +1. John Comyn, Earl of Comyn ,   b. Abt 1275, Aberdeenshire, Scotland Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 10 Feb 1306, Dumfries-shire, Scotland Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 31 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
    Family ID F1363  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 1 Jul 2025 

  • Notes 


    • John Comyn inherited the headship of the Comyns' senior, Badenoch, bran c h a n d b e came the second Red Comyn. His landed power included: Badenoch a n d L o c h aber, with chief castles at Ruthven, Loch indorb, and Inverlochy ; i n f l u ence in Atholl, possibly including the castle at Blair Atholl; B ed r u l e a nd Scraesburgh, Roxburghshire; Dalswinton, with its castle, in D u m f r i esshire; Findogask and Ochtertyre in Perthshire; Machan in the Cly d e v a l l ey; and Lenzie and Kirkintilloch in Dunbartonshire after his bro t h e r W i lliam's death (after c.1290). He also had charge of the castles o f J e d b u rgh and Clunie from Alexander III ; and in England he had Tarset a n d T h o r nton in Tynedale, Northumberland, and Ulseby in Lincolnshire. He w a s r e l i gious patron to Inchaffray , Cambuskenneth, and Coupar Angus abb e y s