Alice Comyn, Countess of Buchan

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• 'Alice Comyn1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13
• 'F, #11635, d. 3 July 1349
• Father Sir Alexander Comyn, Sheriff of Wigtownshire & Aberdeenshire, Keeper of Urquhart & Tarwedale Castles2,3,4,14,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,15 d. c 3 Dec 1308
• Mother Joan le Latimer3,14,9,12,15 b. c Dec 1291, d. bt 1 Oct 1340 - 10 Aug 1349
• Alice Comyn was born at of Buchan, Scotland. She married Sir Henry Beaumont, Earl of Buchan & Moray, 1st Lord Beaumont, Constable of England & the Army, Justiciar of Scotland, son of Sir Louis de Brienne, Viscount Beaumont-en-Maine, Seigneur de Beaumont-sur-Sarthe, Ste. Suzanne, la Flèche, Fresnay, & le Lude and Agnes de Beaumont, before 14 July 1310; They had 3 sons (Sir John, 2nd Lord Beaumont; Richard; & Thomas) and 6 daughters (Alice; Elizabeth, wife of Sir Nicholas, 3rd Lord Audley; Katherine, wife of David de Strathbogie, 11th Earl of Erroll & 2nd Lord Strathbogie; Isabel, wife of Sir Henry of Lancaster, Duke of Lancaster, Earl of Derby, Leicester, & Lincoln; Agnes, wife of Sir, Thomas, 2nd Lord Lucy; & Margaret, wife of Sir Fulk, 3rd Lord FitzWarin).2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13 Alice Comyn died on 3 July 1349 at of Whitwicke, Leicestershire, England.16,5,9,12
• Family Sir Henry Beaumont, Earl of Buchan & Moray, 1st Lord Beaumont, Constable of England & the Army, Justiciar of Scotland d. 10 Mar 1340
• Children
  • Katharine Beaumont+2,3,17,5,8,10,12 d. 11 Nov 1368
  • Isabel Beaumont+3,18,5,7,12 d. bt 24 Mar 1361 - 6 Jul 1361
  • Margaret de Beaumont+3,12
  • Agnes de Beaumont19,3,5,6,12 d. a 1359
  • Sir John de Beaumont, 2nd Lord Beaumont, Earl of Buchan+20,5 b. c 1318, d. 14 Apr 1342
  • Elizabeth Beaumont21,3,4,5,11,12 b. a 1318, d. 27 Oct 1400
• Citations
• 1.[S3240] Unknown author, The Complete Peerage, by Cokayne, Vol. II, p. 60, 375; Lineage and Ancestry of HRH Prince Charles by Gerald Paget, Vol. I, p. 78.
• 2.[S5] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 51.
• 3.[S5] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 83.
• 4.[S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. I, p. 83.
• 5.[S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. I, p. 154-155.
• 6.[S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. II, p. 350.
• 7.[S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. II, p. 529-530.
• 8.[S6] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry: 2nd Edition, Vo. I, p. 138.
• 9.[S6] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry: 2nd Edition, Vol. I, p. 216-217.
• 10.[S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. I, p. 192.
• 11.[S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. I, p. 205-206.
• 12.[S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. I, p. 307-308.
• 13.[S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. II, p. 7.
• 14.[S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. I, p. 153.
• 15.[S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. II, p. 6.
• 16.[S5] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 84.
• 17.[S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. I, p. 64.
• 18.[S5] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 426-427.
• 19.[S11568] The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom, by George Edward Cokayne, Vol. VIII, p. 253.
• 20.[S5] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 83-84.
• 21.[S11568] The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom, by George Edward Cokayne, Vol. I, p. 340.
• From: http://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p388.htm#i...
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• 'Alice Comyn1
• 'F, #102928, b. before 1296, d. before 10 August 1349
• Last Edited=31 Jan 2011
• ' Alice Comyn was born before 1296.1 She was the daughter of Sir Alexander Comyn and Joan Latimer.1,2 She married Henry Beaumont, 1st Earl of Buchan, son of Louis de Brienne and Agnes, Vicomtesse de Beaumont, before 14 July 1310.1 She died before 10 August 1349.1
• ' As a result of her marriage, Alice Comyn was styled as Baroness Beaumont before 14 July 1310. From before 14 July 1310, her married name became de Beaumont. As a result of her marriage, Alice Comyn was styled as Countess of Buchan on 22 January 1333/34.
• 'Children of Alice Comyn and Henry Beaumont, 1st Earl of Buchan
  • 1.Catherine de Beaumont+3 d. 11 Nov 1368
  • 2.Elizabeth Beaumont4 d. 27 Oct 1400
  • 3.Richard Beaumont5
  • 4.John Beaumont5
  • 5.Thomas Beaumont5
  • 6.Alice Beaumont5
  • 7.Joan Beaumont6
  • 8.Beatrice Beaumont6
  • 9.Sir John de Beaumont, 2nd Lord Beaumont+1 b. c 1317, d. bt 10 May 1342 - 25 May 1342
  • 10.Isabella de Beaumont+6 b. c 1320, d. 1361
• Citations
• 1.[S6] G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume II, page 60. Hereinafter cited as The Complete Peerage.
• 2.[S11] Alison Weir, Britain's Royal Families: The Complete Genealogy (London, U.K.: The Bodley Head, 1999), page 76. Hereinafter cited as Britain's Royal Families.
• 3.[S6] Cokayne, and others, The Complete Peerage, volume I, page 307.
• 4.[S6] Cokayne, and others, The Complete Peerage, volume I, page 340.
• 5.[S8] Charles Mosley, editor, Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 106th edition, 2 volumes (Crans, Switzerland: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 1999), volume 1, page 227. Hereinafter cited as Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 106th edition.
• 6.[S8] Charles Mosley, Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 106th edition, volume 1, page 228.
• From: http://www.thepeerage.com/p10293.htm#i102928
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• Beaumont, Baron (E, 1308/9)
• ' Henry [de Beaumont], 1st Baron Beaumont later 1st Earl of Buchan
• 2nd son of Louis of Brienne, called "of Acre", jure uxoris Vicomte of Beaumont (by his wife Agnes of Beaumont, dau. and eventual sole hrss. of Raoul, Vicomte of Beaumont), 2nd son of John of Brienne, King of Jerusalem 1210-29 and Emperor-Regent of Constantinople 1229-37, by his third wife Berengaria of Castile, 1st dau. of Alfonso IX, King of Leon 1188-1230, by his second wife Berengaria I, Queen of Castile 1217-46, through whom he was second cousin to King Edward II
• born
• 'mar. bef. 14 Jul 1310 Alice Comyn (d. bef. 10 Aug 1349), niece and heir of line of John [Comyn], 3rd Earl of Buchan, and 1st dau. and hrss. of Sir Alexander Comyn (by his wife Joan le Latimer), 2nd son of Alexander [Comyn], 2nd Earl of Buchan, by his wife Lady Elizabeth de Quincy, 2nd dau. of Roger [de Quincy], 2nd Earl of Winchester
• children
  • 1. John Beaumont, later 2nd Baron Beaumont
  • 2. Richard Beaumont
  • 3. John Beaumont
  • 4. Thomas Beaumont, of Bolton Percy, co. York, mar., and had issue
  • 1. Lady Elizabeth Beaumont (dsp. 27 Oct 1400; bur. in Hulton Abbey), mar. c. 1330 Nicholas [de Audley], 3rd Baron Audley of Heleigh
  • 2. Lady Catherine Beaumont (d. 11 Nov 1368), mar. David of Strathbogie, 11th or 2nd Earl of Atholl, and had issue
  • 3. Lady Isabel Beaumont (d. 1361), mar. c. 1335 Henry "of Grosmont", 1st Duke of Lancaster, and had issue
  • 4. Lady Agnes Beaumont (d. after 1359), mar. about Jul 1343 as his second wife Thomas [de Lucy], 2nd Baron Lucy
  • 5. Lady Joan Beaumont, mar. Fulk [FitzWarin], 3rd Baron FitzWarin, and had issue
  • 6. Lady Beatrice Beaumont, mar. Count of Dammartin
• died 10 Mar 1339/40
• created by writ of summons 4 Mar 1308/9 Baron Beaumont by writ of summons 22 Jan 1334 jure uxoris Earl of Buchan
• suc. by son
• note Joint Warden of Scotland 1308; granted the Lordship of the Isle of Man 1310 for life; fought on the side of King Edward II at the Battle of Boroughbridge 1321/2; Constable of England 1322; supported Prince Edward against his father, for which he was rewarded with a grant of Loughborough Castle 1334; Justiciar of Scotland 1338
• From: http://www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk/online/
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Alice Comyn[1,2]

 - 1349

Sex Female

Lived In Scotland

Complete *

Died Bef 10 Aug 1349

Person ID I00161596 Leo

Last Modified 04 Nov 2002

Father Alexander Comyn

Mother Joan Le Latimer

Family ID F00070176 Group Sheet

Family Henry de Beaumont, 1st Baron Beaumont, 8th Earl of Buchan, b. est 1282

Married Bef 14 Mar 1310

Children

1. Isabel de Beaumont
2. John de Beaumont, 2nd Lord Beaumont
3. Katherine Beaumont

Last Modified 04 Nov 2002

Family ID F00070175 Group Sheet

Sources 1. [S00301] ~Europäische Stammtafeln, J.A. Stargardt Verlag, Marburg, Schwennicke, Detlev (Ed.), Reference: III 685

2. [S00623] Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists who came to America bef.1700, 7th Edition, 1992, Weis, Frederick Lewis, Reference: 83

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https://books.google.com/books?id=KpfRAAAAMAAJ Great Britain. Public Record Office, ‎Joseph Bain - 1887 - ‎Archives Whitewyke (Whytewyk) manor, Leicester, late earl of Buchan's, delivered to Henry do Beaumont and Alicia Comyn, the earl's niece and co-heir (March 1311-12),
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Alice COMYN, Countess of Buchan

Born: 1291, Buchan, Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Married: Before 14 Jul 1310
Died: Shortly before 20 Jul 1349

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Alice De Comyn Beaumont
BIRTH 1289
Aberdeenshire, Scotland
DEATH 3 Jul 1349 (aged 59–60)
Aberdeenshire, Scotland
BURIAL
Deer Abbey
Old Deer, Aberdeenshire, Scotland
MEMORIAL ID 175269425

"Alice Comyn, Countess of Buchan" and great grandmother of King Henry IV of England. She and her husband had 10 children. Her story can be read on Wikipedia.
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Alice Comyn, Countess of Buchan
1281–1349
BIRTH ABT. 1281 • Buchan, Aberdeenshire, Scotland
DEATH 3 JUL 1349 • Buchan, Aberdeenshire, Scotland

Family Members
Parents
Alexander Comyn
1252–1308
Joan le Latimer Comyn
unknown–1340

Spouse
Henri "Henry" De Beaumont
1285–1340

Siblings
Margaret Comyn Lindsay

Children
Elizabeth Beaumont de Audley
unknown–1400
Isabel de Beaumont
unknown–1361
John de Beaumont
1318–1342
Joan Beaumont FitzWarin
1321–1349

Research Notes:

Nature of request: Letters patent of Edward II stating that William Comyn acknowledged that he had no right at all in the manor of Whitwick in Leicestershire, which John Comyn, Earl of Buchan, his brother, held in chief of the King, and that he surrendered it into the King's hands as the right and inheritance of Alice and Margaret, nieces and heirs of John Comyn; and that the King then gave it in wardship to Alice's husband, Henry de Beaumont, to hold until the majority of the heirs.

Date derivation: Letters dated 16 July, 4 Edward II (1310)

Catalogue reference: SC 8/297/14821 See notes under husband Henry. Inquisition Post Mortem 415. Alice, late the wife of Henry de Bello Monte Writ, 20 July, 23 Edward III (1349) Lincoln. Inq. taken at Hekyngton, Wednesday after St. James, 23 Edw. III. Hekyngton. The manor and 40l. yearly rent from the manor of Barton held by way of dower of the king in chief by homage and service of one knight's fee... Thoresway, Lyndewode and Steveton. The manors, which Edward II gave to Henry de Bello Monte and the aforesaid Alice his wife and the heirs of the body of Henry, to hold by homage only, with reversion to the king. She was seised of no other lands &c. in the county. She died on Thursday after the Translation of St. Thomas the Martyr last. The said Henry and Alice had a son John, their firstborn and heir, who died six years ago without heir of his body born within the realm of England or the allegiance of the king of England. Thomas de Bello Monte, son of the said Henry and Alice, aged 24 years and more, is heir to the said Henry, Alice and John. Leicester. Inq. taken at Lughteburgh, 22 Jul., 23 Edw. III. Whitewyk. The manor. Shepeshed. Two parts of the town. Both held of her inheritance, of the king in chief by service of a quarter of a knight's fee. Lughteburgh. The manor, held jointly with Henry de Bello Monte, deceased, late her husband, of the king by his gift and by his charter, of the forfeiture of Hugh le Despencer, service not known, to hold to the said Henry and Alice and the heirs of their bodies, with reversion to the king and his heirs.... She held no other lands &c. in the county. She died as above. Heir as above, aged 24 years and more at the feast of St. Andrew last. C. Edw. III. File 104. (17.) E. Enrolments &c. of Inq. No. 64

Marriage Information: Alice married Henry de BEAUMONT, Earl of Buchan, son of Louis de BRIENNE of Acre and Agnes de BEAUMONT, Vicomtesse de Beaumont-au-Maine, before 14 Jul 1310. (Henry de BEAUMONT was born in 1268 in Buchan, Aberdeenshire, Scotland and died on 10 Mar 1339/40 in Buchan, Aberdeenshire, Scotland.)

Sources: UK National Archives; Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem, and other analogous documents, preserved in the Public Record Office, Vol. IX, Edward III, pp. 316-317

Alice Comyn, Countess of Buchan
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Alice Comyn, Countess of Buchan, Lady Beaumont (1289 '96 3 July 1349) was a Norman-Scottish noblewoman, a member of the powerful Comyn family which supported the Balliols, claimants to the disputed Scottish throne against their rivals, the Bruces. She was the niece of John Comyn, Earl of Buchan, to whom she was also heiress, and after his death the Earldom of Buchan was successfully claimed by her husband Henry de Beaumont, Earl of Buchan, by right of his wife. His long struggle to claim her Earldom of Buchan was one of the causes of the Second War of Scottish Independence.
Alice was the maternal grandmother of Blanche of Lancaster, and thus great-grandmother of King Henry IV of England

Family
Alice was born in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, in 1289, the eldest daughter of Alexander Comyn, Sheriff of Aberdeen and his wife Joan le Latimer and the granddaughter of Alexander Comyn, Earl of Buchan. She had a younger sister, Margaret, who would later marry firstly Sir John Ross, and secondly Sir William Lindsay, Lord of Symertoun.
Alice's paternal grandparents were Alexander Comyn, 2nd Earl of Buchan, Justiciar and Constable of Scotland, and Elizabeth de Quincy; and her maternal grandparents were William le Latimer and Alicia Ledet. Alice's uncle was John Comyn, Earl of Buchan, one of the most powerful nobles in Scotland. The earl, who died in December 1308, was married to Isabella MacDuff, but the marriage was childless. Alice was John Comyn's heiress to the title of Countess of Buchan, although the earldom had been forfeited to the crown prior to her uncle's death in England to where he had gone as a fugitive.

Marriage and issue
Shortly before 14 July 1310, Alice married Henry de Beaumont, Lord Beaumont, the son of Louis de Brienne, Viscount de Beaumont and Agnes, Viscountess de Beaumont. Upon her marriage she was styled as Lady Beaumont. Henry was a key figure in the Anglo-Scottish wars of the 13th and 14th centuries. (See main article: Wars of Scottish Independence) As a consequence of her marriage to Henry, Alice had become, in Scottish eyes, irretrievably English, therefore the Scots recognised her sister Margaret's right to the Earldom of Buchan rather than her own.
The marriage produced ten children:
Katherine de Beaumont (died 11 November 1368), married David III Strathbogie, Earl of Atholl, by whom she had issue.
Elizabeth de Beaumont (died 27 October 1400), married Nicholas Audley, 3rd Baron Audley. Died without issue.
Richard de Beaumont
John de Beaumont (died young)
Thomas de Beaumont
Alice de Beaumont
Joan de Beaumont, married Sir Fulk FitzWarin, 3rd Lord FitzWarin
Beatrice de Beaumont, married Charles I, Count of Dammartin
John de Beaumont, 2nd Lord Beaumont (1318- 14 April 1342), on 6 November 1330 married as her first husband, Eleanor of Lancaster, by whom he had issue. He was killed in a tournament.
Isabel de Beaumont (c.1320- 1361), married in 1337 Henry of Grosmont, 1st Duke of Lancaster, by whom she had two daughters, Maud, Countess of Leicester and Blanche of Lancaster.

Countess of Buchan
In April 1313, Isabella MacDuff, the widow of Alice's uncle John Comyn, was placed into the custody of the Beaumonts, following her release from her harsh imprisonment. She had been confined in a cage for four years in Berwick, England by the orders of King Edward I after she crowned Robert the Bruce king of Scotland at Scone in March 1306. In 1310, she was sent to a convent, and three years later was ordered to one of the Beaumont manors where she died on an unknown date.
In 1314, Henry de Beaumont fought at the Battle of Bannockburn on the side of the English.
Sometime between 1317 and 1321, Alice succeeded to the English estates of her younger sister, Margaret.
On 22 January 1334, Alice's husband Henry was summoned to Parliament of England as the Earl of Buchan. He was recognised as earl from that date until 16 November 1339. On 10 February 1334, he sat in the Scottish Parliament bearing the same title. It was Henry's relentless pursuit of Alice's inherited earldom of Buchan which was one of the factors that lead to the Second War of Scottish Independence between the Comyns and their ancient rivals, the Bruces.
Alice died on 3 July 1349 at the age of sixty. Her husband Henry had died in 1340 in the Low Countries where he had gone with King Edward III of England. With the death of Alice, the earldom of Buchan forever passed out of the Comyn family.
Alice's numerous descendants included, Kings Henry IV of England and Henry V of England, Philippa of Lancaster, Anne Boleyn, and Humphrey Kynaston, the English highwayman.

In fiction
Alice Comyn appears as a character in Barbara Erskine's novel Kingdom of Shadows, which is based upon the life of Isabella MacDuff.

References
Charles Cawley, Medieval Lands, Scottish Nobility, Earls of Buchan (Comyn)
www.thePeerage.com/p. 10293.htm#102928
Charles Cawley, Medieval Lands, Scottish Nobility, Earls of Buchan (Comyn)
http://www.thePeerage.com/p.10293.htm#102928 <http://www.thePeerage.com/p.10293.htm>

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