Elizabeth Comyn

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Elizabeth Comyn (married Talbot and Bromwych ) († November 20, 1372 ) was an English noblewoman.

Origin and heritage

Elizabeth Comyn came from the Comyn family , an Anglo-Scottish noble family. She was a daughter of John III. Comyn, Lord of Badenoch and his wife Joan de Valence . Her father was entitled to the Scottish throne and was murdered by Robert Bruce in 1306 . After her brother John IV Comyn fell at the Battle of Bannockburn in 1314 , she and her sister Joan became heir to the Comyn family estates in Scotland and England. However, the Scottish properties of the family of Robert Bruce, who became King of Scotland as Robert I , had been confiscated. In addition, as the daughter of Joan de Valence, Elizabeth was a co-heir of her uncle Aymer de Valence, 2nd Earl of Pembroke , who died in 1324 without any legitimate descendants. After his death, his land was divided between his sisters' daughters, Joan and Isabel .

The ruins of Goodrich Castle, which Elizabeth Comyn had to hand over to the Despensers in 1325

Appropriation of their inheritance by the despensers

Despite the division of the inheritance, Elizabeth was still a potentially wealthy heiress. The young woman therefore caught the attention of the two Despensers, the dominant favorites of the English King Edward II. Originally, they had probably planned to marry Elizabeth to Hugh , the younger Despenser's eldest son, because Elizabeth had already had one before her father's death Well lived the despensers. However, after the Earl of Pembroke died and the Despensers received the guardianship of his son Lawrence after the death of John Hastings , another heir of Pembroke, they wanted to marry him to a daughter of the younger Despenser. They made sure that the Pembroke inheritance was divided unequally to the detriment of Elizabeth and to the benefit of Lawrence Hastings, for since he was still a child he would remain under the tutelage of the Despensers for a long time. Then they rejected the plan to marry Elizabeth to the young Despenser heir. Instead, they urged them to give them their inherited possessions. For fear of being prisoners for life of the Despensers, she left on March 8, according to other information on April 20, 1325 the elder Hugh Despenser the estate of Painswick in Gloucestershire and the younger Hugh le Despenser Goodrich Castle in Herefordshire . The pretext for this surrender was a £ 20,000 debt Elizabeth allegedly owed the Despensers. Finally, they forced Elizabeth to hand over the Swanscombe estate in Kent. The royal judge John Bousser , who was allied with the Despensers, had come specially for the transfer of the properties and testified to this. The Despensers may have made this blackmail out of revenge because the late Earl of Pembroke had advocated the Despensers' exile during the Despenser War in 1321. Although Elizabeth was now deprived of her inheritance, the Despensers continued to control her.

Marriage to Richard Talbot, inheritance recovery and second marriage

In late 1326 the reign of Edward II and the Despensers were executed as traitors, with which Elizabeth was set free. Before February 1327 she was married to Richard Talbot , the son of an adviser to the new King Edward III. Talbot then succeeded in reclaiming his wife's inheritance from the Crown of the Earl of Pembroke and the Comyn family. After the death of her husband in 1356, she married Sir John Bromwych between February 21, 1357 and February 16, 1360 .

progeny

From her marriage to Richard Talbot, she had at least one son who became her heir:

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Natalie Fryde: The tyranny and fall of Edward II, 1321-1326 . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2003. ISBN 0-521-54806-3 , p. 114
  2. ↑ John Roland Seymour Phillips: Aymer de Valence, earl of Pembroke, 1307-1324. Baronial politics in the reign of Edward II. Clarendon, Oxford 1972, ISBN 0-19-822359-5 , p. 235
  3. ^ Scott L. Waugh: Talbot, Richard, second Lord Talbot (c. 1306-1356). In: Henry Colin Gray Matthew, Brian Harrison (Eds.): Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , from the earliest times to the year 2000 (ODNB). Oxford University Press, Oxford 2004, ISBN 0-19-861411-X , ( oxforddnb.com license required ), as of 2004
  4. ↑ Seymour Phillips: Edward II . New Haven, Yale University Press 2010. ISBN 978-0-300-15657-7 , pp. 448
  5. ↑ Natalie Fryde: The tyranny and fall of Edward II, 1321-1326 . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2003. ISBN 0-521-54806-3 , p. 115
  6. ↑ John Roland Seymour Phillips: Aymer de Valence, earl of Pembroke, 1307-1324. Baronial politics in the reign of Edward II. Clarendon, Oxford 1972, ISBN 0-19-822359-5 , p. 235
  7. ^ Scott L. Waugh: Talbot, Richard, second Lord Talbot (c. 1306-1356). In: Henry Colin Gray Matthew, Brian Harrison (Eds.): Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , from the earliest times to the year 2000 (ODNB). Oxford University Press, Oxford 2004, ISBN 0-19-861411-X , ( oxforddnb.com license required ), as of 2004
  8. ↑ Cracroft's Peerage: Talbot, Baron (E, 1332 - abeyant 1777). Retrieved September 4, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Comyn, Elizabeth
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Talbot, Elisabeth; Bromwych, Elizabeth
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English nobles
DATE OF BIRTH before 1306
DATE OF DEATH November 20, 1372