Alice Comyn, Countess of Buchan

Alice Comyn
Countess of Buchan
Lady Beaumont
Born1289
Aberdeen, Scotland
Died3 July 1349
Noble familyComyn (by birth)
Brienne (by marriage)
Spouse(s)Henry de Beaumont, 4th Earl of Buchan
IssueKatherine, 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
FatherAlexander Comyn, Sheriff of Aberdeen
MotherJoan le Latimer

Alice Comyn, Countess of Buchan, Lady Beaumont (1289 – 3 July 1349) was a 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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