Alice Comyn, Countess of Buchan
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Alice Comyn | |
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Comyn (by birth) Brienne (by marriage) | |
| Spouse(s) | Henry de Beaumont, 4th Earl of Buchan |
| Issue | Katherine, Countess of Atholl Elizabeth de Beaumont, Lady Audley Richard de Beaumont John de Beaumont Thomas de Beaumont Alice de Beaumont Joan de Beaumont, Lady FitzWarin Beatrice, Countess of Dammartin John de Beaumont, 2nd Lord Beaumont Isabel of Beaumont, Duchess of Lancaster |
| Father | Alexander Comyn, Sheriff of Aberdeen |
| Mother | Joan le Latimer |
Alice Comyn,
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.[citation needed]
Alice's paternal grandparents were
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.[citation needed]
The marriage produced many 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.
- Henry of Grosmont, 1st Duke of Lancaster, by whom she had two daughters, Maud, Countess of Leicester and Blanche of Lancaster.
- Agnes de Beaumont, married Thomas de Lucy, 2nd Baron Lucy
Countess of Buchan
In April 1313,
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
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