Alexander Comyn (died 1308),

Sheriff of Aberdeen The Sheriff of Aberdeen was a royal official who was responsible for enforcing justice in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Prior to 1748 most sheriffdoms were held on a hereditary basis. From that date, following the Jacobite uprising of 1745, they were r ...

was a fourteenth-century Scottish nobleman. He was a younger son of

Alexander Comyn, Earl of Buchan Alexander Comyn, 2nd Earl of Buchan (died 1289) was a Scoto-Norman magnate who was one of the most important figures in the 13th century Kingdom of Scotland. Life He was the son of William Comyn, Lord of Badenoch, and wife Marjory, Counte ...

. The latter died in 1290, whereupon the

earldom of Buchan The Mormaer () or Earl of Buchan () was originally the provincial ruler of the medieval province of Buchan. Buchan was the first Mormaerdom in the High Medieval Kingdom of the Scots to pass into the hands of a non-Scottish family in the male l ...

was inherited by Alexander's elder brother,

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(died 1308). Alexander was married to Joanna Latimer, possibly a daughter of William Latimer, with whom he had issue

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and Margaret. Alice married

Henry de Beaumont Henry de Beaumont (before 1280 – 10 March 1340), ''jure uxoris'' 4th Earl of Buchan and ''suo jure'' 1st Baron Beaumont, was a key figure in the Anglo-Scots wars of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, known as the Wars of Scottish In ...

, son of

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and Agnès de Beaumont, Vicomte of Beaumont. Margaret married firstly John Ross son of

William II, Earl of Ross William II, Earl of Ross (Gaelic: ''Uilleam''; died c. 1323) was ruler of the province of Ross in northern Scotland, and a prominent figure in the Wars of Scottish Independence. William was the only child of William I, Earl of Ross and his wi ...

and secondly William Lindsay of Symertoun. Alexander was

in 1297–1304. During the

First War of Scottish Independence The First War of Scottish Independence was the first of a series of wars between Kingdom of England, England and Kingdom of Scotland, Scotland. It lasted from the English invasion of Scotland (1296), English invasion of Scotland in 1296 until ...

, Alexander is recorded to have campaigned with

Lachlann Mac Ruaidhrí Lachlann Mac Ruaidhrí (fl. 1297 – 1307/1308) was a Scottish magnate and Scottish clan chief, chief of Clann Ruaidhrí. He was a free-booting participant in the First War of Scottish Independence, who remarkably took up arms against figures su ...

(

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1297–1307/1308). Alexander died in 1308, not long before the death of his brother John, who had no children by his own wife. The title to the earldom, thereafter, passed to Alexander's daughters, Alice and Margaret. McAndrew (2006) p. 44.

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Alexander Comyn of Buchan (d.a.1308) @ People of Medieval Scotland, 1093–1314
{{DEFAULTSORT:Comyn, Alexander 1308 deaths Year of birth unknown Nobility from Aberdeenshire 13th-century Scottish nobility 14th-century Scottish nobility

Alexander Alexander () is a male name of Greek origin. The most prominent bearer of the name is Alexander the Great, the king of the Ancient Greek kingdom of Macedonia who created one of the largest empires in ancient history. Variants listed here ar ...

Scottish people of the Wars of Scottish Independence