Everything about William Comyn Jure Uxoris Earl Of Buchan totally explained
William Comyn, jure uxoris Earl of Buchan was one of four sons (and three daughters) of
Richard Comyn, Justiciar of
Lothian and Hextilda of Tynedale. He was born Scotland, in Altyre,
Moray in 1163 and died in
Buchan in 1233 where he's buried in
Deer Abbey.
William made his fortune in the service of king
William I of Scotland fighting the
Meic Uilleim in the north. William witnesses no less than 88 charters of the king. William was
sheriff of
Forfar (
1195-
1211),
Justiciar of Scotia (
1205-33) and warden of
Moray (1211-
2). Between
1199 and
1200, William was sent to
England to discuss important matters on King William's behalf with the new king,
John.
William was appointed to the prestigious office of Justiciar of Scotia, the most senior royal office in the kingdom, in 1205. Between 1211 and 1212, William, as Warden of Moray (or
Guardian of Moray) fought against the insurgency of
Gofraid mac Domnaill (of the
Meic Uilleim family), who William beheaded in
Kincardine in
1213. Upon finally destroying the Meic Uilleim's in
1229, he was given the
Lordship of Badenoch and the lands it controlled.
From an unknown date, William held the title Lord of Kilbride.
He helped oversee the construction of
St Mungo's Cathedral in Glasgow and after his death, Marjory continued his work there.
Earl of Buchan
During his period as Warden of Moray, Comyn was so successful, it may have been the reason he received the hand of Marjory (aka.
Margaret), Countess of Buchan, sometime between 1209-1212. Her father
Fergus, Earl of Buchan, had no male heirs and so in marrying his daughter to William he ensured a suitable line for his titles before his death. Dying sometime around 1214 (perhaps earlier) William inherited the
Mormaer or
Earl of Buchan, by right of his wife (
jure uxoris).
Family tree
William (is believed to have) had six children through his first wife Sarah Fitzhugh and eight through Marjory, Countess of Buchan. The two branches would be associated with the
Lordship of Badenoch through his first wife and the
Earldom of Buchan through the second. For the historian Alan Young, William's life, and particularly his marriage to the Countess of Buchan, marks the beginning of the "Comyn century".
NB. Children are ranked according to either accounts showing a specific rank in the order of Williams children's birth or according to the earliest availalbe date the child was thought to have been born.
- father Richard Comyn (b.c.1115-1123 d.c.1179); mother Hextilda of Tynedale (aka. Hextilda FitzUchtred or Hextilda FitzWaldeve) (b.1112-1122 d.c. 1149-1189). Hextilda's first husband was Malcolm, 2nd Earl of Atholl, making their son Henry, 3rd Earl of Atholl, William Comyn's half-brother.
- first wife married 1193: Sarah Fitzhugh (aka. Sarah filia Roberti) (b.1155-1160 d.c.1204)
- second wife married c.1209-1212: Marjory (aka. Margaret), Countess of Buchan (aka. Margaret Colhan of Buchan) (b.c.1184 d.c.1243-1244)
- 1. Idonea (aka. Idoine) (b.c.1215-1221); married 1237: Gilbert de Haya of Erroll (aka. Gilbert de la Hay) (d.1262)
- 2. Alexander, Earl of Buchan (b.c.1217 d.c.1289-1290); married: Elizabetha de Quincy (aka. Isabel) (b.1220 d.1282)
- 3. William (b.c.1217)
- 4. Margaret (b.c. 1218-1230); married Sir John de Keith, Marischal of Scotland (b.1212 d.1270)
- 5. Fergus (b.c.1219-1228 d.); married 1249: unknown wife; father of Margaret Comyn (b.c.1270)
- 6. Elizabeth (b.c. 1223 d.1267); married: Uilleam, Earl of Mar (d.1281)
- 7. Agnes (b.c.1225); married 1262: Sir Philip de Meldrum, Justiciar of Scotia (aka. Philip de Fedarg or Philip de Melgarum)
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