Comin, Alice

Alice was born in Aberdeenshire , Scotland, in 1289 . The eldest daughter of Alexander Comin (d. 1308), Sheriff Aberdeen , and his wife, Joan Le Latimer, the granddaughter of Alexander Comin, Count Buchan . She had a younger sister, Margaret, who was first married to Sir John Ross, and the second to Sir William Lindsay, Lord of Simeruna.

Paternal Alice was the granddaughter of Alexander Comin, Earl of Buchan, Justiciar and Constable of Scotland, and Elizabeth de Quincy, and on the maternal line, William Le Latimer and Alicia Ledett. Uncle Alice was John Comin, Earl of Buchan (1260-1308), one of the most powerful nobles in Scotland. John Comin, earl of Buchan, died in exile in England in December 1308 , he was married to Isabella MacDuff, but their marriage was childless. Alice was the heir to John Comin in the title of Earl Buchan , although after the death of her uncle in England, the county was confiscated by the Scottish crown.

Alice Comin married Henry de Beaumont (c. 1280–1340), son of Louis de Brienne, Viscount de Beaumont, and Agnes, Viscountess de Beaumont. After marriage, Alice became known as " Lady Beaumont ". Henry Beaumont was a key figure in the Anglo-Scottish Wars of the XIII - XIV centuries . In Scotland, Alice was considered a subject of England and recognized the rights of her younger sister Margaret to the county of Buchan.

Ten children were born in marriage:

• Catherine de Beaumont (died November 11, 1368), married David III Stretbog, Count Atoll (c. 1309–1335)
• Elizabeth de Beaumont (d. October 27, 1400), married Nicholas Audley, 3rd Baron Audley (c. 1328–1391)
• Richard de Beaumont
• John de beaumont
• Thomas de Beaumont
• Alice de Beaumont
• Joan de Beaumont , husband - Falk Fitz-Warren (d. 1349), 3rd Baron Fitz-Warren
• Beatrice Beaumont , husband - Charles I, Earl of Dammarten
• John de Beaumont, 2nd Lord of Beaumont (1318 - April 14, 1342), has been married since 1330 to Eleanor Lancaster (1318–1372). He was killed in the tournament.
• Isabella de Beaumont (c. 1320–1361), husband from 1337, Henry Grosmont, 1st Duke of Lancaster (c. 1310–1361).

In April 1313, Isabella MacDuff , the widow of John Comyn (uncle Alice), was detained by the Beaumonts. Prior to that, for four years she was in a cage in Berwick , by order of the King of England Edward I after she crowned Robert the Bruce, Earl of Carrick , the new king of Scotland in Scone in March 1306 . In 1310 she was sent to a monastery, and three years later she was imprisoned in one of the estates of Beaumont, where she died in obscurity.

In 1314, Henry Beaumont, 1st Baron Beaumont , fought on the side of the British at the Battle of Bannockburn .

Between 1317 and 1321, Alice moved into her younger sister's English estate, Margaret.

On January 22, 1334, Henry Beaumont , Alice's husband, was summoned to the British Parliament as Count of Buchan. He was recognized by the count from this date until November 16, 1339 . February 10, 1334, Henry Beaumont met in the Scottish Parliament with the same title. Henry Beaumont sought to inherit the county of Buchan by the right of his wife. This was one of the reasons for the start of the Second War of Scotland for independence .

Alice passed away on July 3, 1349 at the age of sixty. Her husband Henry de Beaumont, 1st Baron Beaumont | Henry Beaumont died in 1340 in the Netherlands, where he arrived with King Edward III of England. After Alice died, Buchan County disappeared forever from the ownership of the Comin family.

Among the many descendants of Alice were the kings of England Henry IV and Henry V , Queen of Portugal Philip of Lancaster , Queen of England Anne Boleyn , and the English robber Humphrey Cyneston .

Alice Comin appears as a character in Barbara Erskine ’s novel The Kingdom of the Shadows (1988), which is based on the life of Isabella MacDuff .

• The King of Arms: The Scots Peerage, vol. 2, Édimbourg, Douglas, 1909 ( Scots Peerage [archive]), "Comyn, Earl of Buchan"