Alice Comyn, Countess of Buchan
Noble person
1289 – 1349
Who was Alice Comyn, Countess of Buchan?
Alice Comyn, Countess of Buchan, Lady Beaumont was a Norman-Scottish noblewoman, a member of the powerful Comyn family which supported the Balliols, claimants to the disputed Scottish throne against their rivals, the Bruces. She was the niece of John Comyn, Earl of Buchan, to whom she was also heiress, and after his death the Earldom of Buchan was successfully claimed by her husband Henry de Beaumont, Earl of Buchan, by right of his wife. His long struggle to claim her Earldom of Buchan was one of the causes of the Second War of Scottish Independence.
Alice was the maternal grandmother of Blanche of Lancaster, and thus great-grandmother of King Henry IV of England.
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- Born
- 1289
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- Died
- Jul 3, 1349
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on July 23, 2013
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