Robert COMYN, Earl Of Northumberland^[1]

Abt 1022 - 1069  (~ 47 years)

• Name	Robert COMYN  [2]
  Suffix	Earl Of Northumberland
  Born	Abt 1022	Altyre, Morayshire, Scotland
  Gender	Male
  _UID	35BC603409C0453BA88C4BAE1EAFB0C1398B
  Died	28 Jan 1068-1069	Durham, Northumberland, England
  Person ID	I11757	Carney Wehofer Feb 2024 Genealogy
  Last Modified	5 Feb 2012

  
  

  Father	John COMYN,   b. Abt 991, Altyre, Morayshire, Scotland ,   d. Yes, date unknown
  Family ID	F5956	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Children	1. John COMYN,   b. Abt 1053, Altyre, Morayshire, Scotland ,   d. Abt 1100, Badenoch, Inverness, Scotland  (Age ~ 47 years)
  Last Modified	29 Aug 2016
  Family ID	F5957	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  In the 3rd year of King William the Conqueror [1069], that monarch conferred the Earldom of Northumberland, vacant by the death of Earl Copsi, upon Robert Comyn, but the nomination accorded so little with the wishes of the inhabitants of the county that they at first resolved to abandon entirely their dwellings; being prevented doing so, however, by the inclemency of the season, it was then determined, at all hazards, to put the new earl to death. of this evil design his lordship had intimation, through Egelivine, bishop of Durham, but, disregarding the intelligence, he repaired to Durham with 700 soldiers and commenced a course of plunder and bloodshed, which rousing the inhabitants of the neighbourhood, the town was assaulted and carried by a multitude of country people, and the earl and all his troops, to a man, put to death. This occurrence took place in 1069, in a few months after his lordship's appointment to the earldom. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, 1883, p. 131] ---------- The surname Cummings emerged as a notable Scottish Family name in the Country of Northumberland, where William the Conqueror allocated the Earldom of Northumberland to Robert de Comines, from Comminges in Normandy. The badge of the family is the Cumin Plant. However, Robert de Comines' rule in Northumberland was uneventful, his violence to the local people became intolerable and he was killed in 1069. When Richard Comyn, his great-grandson, came to Scotland with King David, he married Hextilda of Tynedale, granddaughter of King Donald of Scotland.

  
  

• Sources

  [SAuth] Jim Carney, compiled by James H Carney [(E-ADDRESS), & MAILING ADDRESS FOR PRIVATE USE], Buderim, Queensland 4556 AUSTRALIA. [S845] Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists, 7th Edition, by Frederick Lewis Weis, additions by Walter Lee Shippard Jr., 1999, 121a-25 (Reliability: 3).