From
Scot's Peerage1:
...was a man of great influence and a might baron of his day. He is referred to in 1242 as 'Rufus' or the 'Red' Comyn, nephew of Alexander, afterwards Earl of Buchan, and he may not then ahve succeeded his father. But he was probably in possession before July 1249. On the death of his uncle Walter in 1258, without surviving issue, he succeeded to the lordship of Badenoch, and became the head of his family, then perhaps the most powerful in Scotland; at one period, Fordun says, there were no fewer than three Earls and thirty-tow Knights of that name.
He was appoitned Justiciar of Galloway before 18 March 1259/9. On 8 February 1261-2 he received from King Henry III. a confirmation of the grant made of lands in Tynedale to Richard, his great-grandfather, and Hextilda his wife.
The surname of his wife is not known, but her Christian name was Alicia, as appears from a charter granting her and her husband free warren in all their demesne lands of Ulseby in Lincolnshire. She survived him, and married again another Comyn, with issue.
Family Life
The Wikitree entry for
John suggests his second wife may have been Alice Lindsay, daughter of Walter Lindsay; Richardson
2 gives her as
Alice de Roos which I follow.
Footnotes
[1] The Scots Peerage, by Sir James Balfour Paul, Volume 1, Edinburgh (1904); Comyn, pages 503-510
[2] Magna Carta Ancestry, by Douglas Richardson; Clarell, Vol. 1, pages 475-480
- Abt 1278