# ID: I40144
# Name: John COMYN I The Red . Lord of Badenoch 1 2
# Sex: M
# Reference Number: 40144
# Title: Sir
# Birth: ABT 1211 in Badenoch, Inverness, Scotland
# Death: AFT 1273 in France



Father: Richard COMYN Lord of Badenoch b: ABT 1194 in Altyre, Forres, Morayshire, Scotland

Marriage 1 ALICIA b: ABT 1215 in Scotland

Children

   1. Has No Children Unknown Comyn b: ABT 1235 in Badenoch, Inverness, Scotland
   2. Has Children Unknown COMYN b: ABT 1240 in Badenoch, Inverness, Scotland
   3. Has Children John COMYN II The Black Lord of Badenoch b: ABT 1242 in Inverness-shire, Scotland
   4. Has Children Unknown COMYN b: ABT 1244 in Badenoch, Inverness, Scotland
   5. Has No Children William Comyn b: ABT 1246 in Badenoch, Inverness, Scotland
   6. Has No Children Alexander Comyn b: ABT 1250 in Badenoch, Inverness, Scotland


Marriage 2 Alice de ROS b: ABT 1242 in of Helmsley, Yorkshire, England

Children

   1. Has No Children Robert Comyn b: ABT 1267 in Badenoch, Inverness, Scotland
   2. Has No Children Alicia Comyn b: ABT 1270 in Badenoch, Inverness, Scotland
   3. Has Children John COMYN of Ulceby b: ABT 1268 in Badenoch, Inverness, Scotland


Sources:

   1. Title: Ancestral Roots by Weis-7th edition-GPC
      Note:
      Source Medium: Book
   2. Author: Robert Douglas, James Balfour Paul
      Title: The Scotts Peerage
      Page: 506
      Text:
      VII SIR JOHN the Red Comyn No 1 who was certainly the son of Richard Comyn both according to the testimony of his son the Competitor and also of Wyntoun 7 was a man of great influence and a mighty baron of his day He is referred to in 1242 as Rufus or the Red Comyn nephew of Alexander afterwards Earl of Buchan 6 and he may not then have succeeded to his father But he was probably in possession before July 1249.5 On the death of his uncle Walter in 1258 without surviving issue he succeeded to the lordship of Badenoch and became the head of his family then perhaps the most powerful in Scotland at one period Fordun says there were no fewer than three Earls and thirty two Kuights of that name 1 He was appointed Justiciar of Galloway before 18 March 1258 59.3 On 8 February 1261 62 he received from King Henry in a confirmation of the grant made of lands in Tynedale to Richard his great grandfather and Hextilda his wife 3 The surname of his wife is not known but her Christian name was Alicia as appears from a charter granting her and her husband free warren in all their demesne lands of Ulseby in Lincolnshire She survived him and married again another Comyn with issue 4 Sir John died after 1273 having had by his wife 1 William of Kirkintilloch He married Isabella Russell daughter of his uncle Walter Comyn's widow Isabella Countess of Menteith by her second husband Sir John Russell He was alive in January 1290 91 but was dead before 2 June 1291.5 See title Menteith 2 JOHN of Badenoch and Tynedale of whom hereafter 3 John le jeon The occurrence of a younger brother of the name is clearly proved 5 Wyntoun says he had four daughters of whom the first married Richard Siward the second Godfrey Geoffrey Moubray with issue five sons the third Alexander of Argyll by whom she had John of Lome the fourth became the mother of that Sir Andrew Moray of Bothwell who fell at the battle of Stirling Bridge in 1297 In addition to these if Wyntoun is correct he had another daughter married to Sir William Galbrathe to whom Sir John Comyn granted the barony of Dalserf in Lanarkshire 5 She had issue See under title Douglas The Scots Peerage Founded on Wood's Edition of Sir Robert Douglas's Peerage of Scotland : Containing an Historical and Genealogical Account of the Nobility of that Kingdom By Robert Douglas, James Balfour Paul