John Comyn (nobleman, † 1314)

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John Comyn , de jure Lord of Badenoch (also John Comyn (IV) ) († June 24, 1314 near Bannockburn ) was a Scottish nobleman.

Origin and youth

John Comyn came from the Scottish Comyn clan . He was the only son of John Comyn, Lord of Badenoch and his wife Joan de Valence . His mother was a cousin of the English King Edward I. During the First Scottish War of Independence , his father was captured by the English in 1296. Afterwards, his mother lived on her English estate. His father was released in 1297 but continued the fight against the English king. Thereupon the English king ordered on March 26th 1298 Joan de Valence and her children that they immediately return to Londonshould come. After John's father submitted to the English king in 1304, the family was apparently allowed to return to Scotland. However, his father was murdered by Robert Bruce in February 1306 , after which the English king ordered him and his mother to return to England. There he was placed in the care of Sir John Weston , tutor to the king's children. On May 22, 1306 he was one of the more than 200 young nobles who were knighted in Westminster together with the heir to the throne Edward .

Living in English exile and participating in the 1314 campaign

De jure , the young John was now heir to Badenoch and his father's other possessions, but Robert Bruce had declared himself king of Scotland shortly after the murder of Comyn. Bruce was not only able to assert himself against the English king, but also drove the remaining members of the Comyn family from Scotland by 1308. The young John was married in England to Margaret Wake , a daughter of the English baron John Wake . In August 1312 he took part in an English parliament in Westminster along with other Scottish nobles who were still on the English side . In 1314 he took part in the campaign of the English King Edward II to Scotland. He fell at the Battle of Bannockburn , probably belonging to the English vanguard under the Earl of Gloucester , which suffered heavy losses in their violent attack on the Scottish Schiltrons .

consequences

Comyn's death and the clear defeat of the English king against the Scots under Robert Bruce put an end to the hopes of the Comyn family that they would regain their position in Scotland. The Scots took his death as an omen that the murder of his father John Comyn in 1306 was justified. Comyn's wife gave birth to a posthumous son, Aymer Comyn († before 1316), who died as an infant. The family's remaining estates in England were then divided between John Comyn's sisters, Joan and Elizabeth Comyn .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Alan Young: Comyn, Sir John, lord of Badenoch (d. 1306). 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
  2. ^ Matthew Strickland: Treason, Feud and the Growth of State Violence. Edward I and the War of the 'Earl of Carrick', 1306-07 . In: Chris Given-Wilson, Ann J. Kettle, Len Scales (eds.): War, government and aristocracy in the British Isles, c.1150-1500 . Boydell & Brewer, Woodbridge 2008, ISBN 978-1-84383-389-5 , p. 107.
  3. Michael Penman: Robert the Bruce. King of the Scots . Yale University Press, New Haven 2014, ISBN 978-0-300-14872-5 , p. 128.
  4. ^ Geoffrey WS Barrow: Robert Bruce and the Community of the Realm of Scotland . Eyre & Spottiswoode, London 1965, p. 324.
  5. Michael Penman: Robert the Bruce. King of the Scots . Yale University Press, New Haven 2014, ISBN 978-0-300-14872-5 , p. 143.