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!ID: I08821 William COMYN , 5th Earl of Buchan V. William, married twice. The name of his first wife has not been ascertained.(4-505) His second wife was Marjory, Countess of Buchan, and by marriage with her he became Earl of Buchan. (See that title.) He died in 1233.(5-505) By his first wife he had issue:—
1. Richard, of whom hereafter.
2. Walter, who married, about 1230, Isabella, Countess of Menteith, and became Earl of Menteith. (See that title.)
3. Jean, married to William, Earl of Ross, who died in 1274.(6-505) The children of William Comyn by his second wife will
be found under the title Buchan.
(4-505) She may have been a daughter of Robert Fitzhugh, who in 1201-2 is said to have married a William Cumin, who paid fines for the marriage (_Cal. of Docs._, i. 318).
(5-505) _Chron. de Mailros_, 144.
(6-505) _Scottish Antiquary_, iv. 2. [Ref: SP I:505 sub COMYN, LORD OF BADENOCH]
!ID: I08821 William COMYN , 5th Earl of Buchan William Comyn, Earl of Buchan, had inherited his father's estates in Scotland, and the manor of Thornton, in Tyndale, in Northumberland.(8-252) In 1200 he was sent by William the Lion to John, King of England, on a friendly mission after his accession to the throne.(9-252) Between 1211 and 1214, along with his wife, the Countess, he granted to the church of St. Thomas the Martyr at Arbroath the revenue of the Church of Buthelny (Oldmeldrum),(10-252) and in 1219 he founded the Cistercian Abbey of Deer, in Buchan, dedicated to the Virgin Mary, on or near the site of the old Columban monastery.(11-252) He was Justiciar of Scotland,(12-252) and in this capacity he put down a rebellion in Moray, headed by Guthred, in 1211, and again in 1229 he crushed another rebellion in the same district. He was also Sheriff of Forfarshire.(1-253) In 1221, along with other nobles, he was a witness to the marriage-contract between Alexander II. and the Princess Joan, sister of Henry III. of England.(2-253)
The Earl died in 1233,(3-253) and according to tradition he was buried before the high altar of the church of the Abbey of Deer, which he had founded.(4-253) Countess Marjory survived her husband; in 1236 she participated in the settlement of a dispute with the Abbot of Arbroath regarding lands in Tarves,(5-253) and her son, Alexander Comyn, is styled heir of Buchan in 1242,(6-253) but she died soon after, as he was Earl before August 1244.
William Comyn was twice married.
His first marriage is referred to under Badenoch.
By his marriage with the Countess of Buchan he had issue:—
1. Alexander, who succeeded his mother in the earldom.
2. Sir William(7-253)
3. Fergus, mentioned in the foundation charter of the Hospital of Turriff,(8-253) and also in various other writs along with his brother Alexander, until 1270 or later.
4. Idonea, married (before her father's death) to Sir Gilbert Hay, who received with her the lands of Auchtercoul in Mar.(9-253) She was evidently named after Idonea, her father's sister (omitted under Badenoch), to whom Earl William, soon after he became Earl, gave a grant of the lands of Blyth, Ingraston, and the Haugh (Spittalhaugh) in Linton Parish, Peebles. The elder Idonea married Sir Adam Fitz Gilbert, and had issue a daughter, Christian.(10-253)
5. Elizabeth, married to William, Earl of Mar. She died in 1267.(1-254)
6. Agnes, who is said to have been married to Philip Meldrum of that Ilk. She and her husband had a dispute with the monks of Arbroath in 1263.(2-254)
(8-252) _Cal. of Docs._, i. No. 809.
(9-252) Rymer's _Fœdera_, i. 81; Hemingburgh, i. 234.
(10-252) _Collections_, 560.
(11-252) _Liber Pluscardensis_, i. 46.
(12-252) _Cal. of Docs_., i. No. 809; _Ibid._, i. No. 1113; _Reg. Vet. de Aberbrothoc_, 46.
(1-253) _Reg. Vet. de Aberbroth._, 5.
(-253) _Cal. of Docs._, i. No. 808.
(3-253) _Antiquities_, ii. 409 n.; _Liber Pluscardensis_, i. 73, says 1232.
(4-253) _Antiquities_, ii. 410. This tradition was confirmed by the finding, last century, of a tomb before the site of the high altar, in which there was part of a belt. Information received on the spot by writer from the gardener at Pitfour.
(5-153) _Collections_, 337.
(6-253) Fordun à Goodall, ii. 73. In a charter of 1240 (_Liber de Calchou_, 151) and also in a writ of 1242 (_Antiquities_, ii. 109) he is named Alexander Comyn only.
(7-253) _Collections_, 372; _Antiquities_, iii. 112.
(8-253) _Collections_, 470.
(9-253) Copy of original charter in Gen. Reg. Ho.
(10-253) See _Registrum Honoris de Morton_, ii. 4; _Origines Parochiaes_, i. 189.
(1-254) Fordun à Goodall, ii. 109.
(2-254) _Collections_,etc. 561. [Ref: SP II:252-4, sub SCOTT, DUKE OF BUCHAN]
!This Earl of Mar (William, 5th Earl) married, first, a daughter of William Comyn, Earl of Buchan. Her name is said to be Elizabeth, and she died in 1267. He married, secondly, Muriel, daughter of Malise, Earl of Strathearn, granddaughter and coheiress of Robert de Muscamp, who survived him, and died, between 16 May and 12 November 1291, without issue, as her sister Mary, wife of Nicholas Graham, was her heir. By his first wife the Earl had DONALD, who became Earl of Mar. !James Balfour Paul, Scots Peerage, 1904 - 1914, Vol. 5, p. 574-577. Online at Google Books: https://ia600702.us.archive.org/8/items/scotspeeragefoun05pauluoft/scotspeeragefoun05pauluoft.pdf
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Hamm Family History (We are all related)
Abt 1163 - 1233 (~ 70 years)
