BUCHAN 375 stable (') [S.] in right of his wife. Was one of the nobles who, 4 Feb. 1283/4, engaged to maintain the succession to the Crown of Margaret of Scotland, and was one of the six Guardians [S.] on the death of Alexan- der III in 1285. He m. Elizabeth, () 2nd da. and coh. of Roger (de Quincy), Earl of Winchester, by his ist wife, Helen, ist da. and coh. of Alan OF Galloway, Constable of Scotland. She was living Apr. 1282. He was living 1289/90, but d. in 1290, before 6 Apr., date of writ for Inq. p. m. VII. 1290 7. John (Comyn), Earl of Buchan [S.], s. and h., to aged 30 years and more at his father's death. Was one 1308. of the nominees of Balliol in 1291, in which year, as also in 1296, he swore fealty to Edward 1. He encountered Robert Bruce 26 Dec. 1307, and again, at Inverury, 22 May 1308, where he was totally defeated, after which he retired to England, when his estates in Scotland [and possibly his honours] v^^rt forfeited. He m. Isabel, da. of Duncan, Earl of Fife [S.]. She (taking the opposite side trom her husband) placed, as representative of her brother, the crown on the head of King Robert Bruce, at Scone, 29 Mar. 1306. He d. in England, .?./>.»?., between 1 1 Aug. and 3 Dec. 1308. His widow, whom the English had imprisoned in an iron cage at Berwick in 1306, was released in Apr. 13 13. VIII. 1334 8. Henry (Beaumont), Lord Beaumont, having w., to about 1 3 10, certainly before 14 July 13 10, Alice, ist da. 1340. and coh. of Alexander Comyn, Sheriff of Aberdeen (1305), being niece and heir of line (■=) of John, Earl of (^) This was apparently on the resignation, in 1270, of Margaret, Countess of Derby, sister of his wife. (*>) She is called Isabel in Patent Rolh, Oct. 1265 and Feb. 1265/6. V.G. (f) Margaret, the 2nd and yst. da. and coh., m. Sir John Ross, s. of William, Earl of Ross [S.], who got with her from King Robert Bruce " the half of the Earl of Buchan's whole lands in Scotland," but appears to have d. s.p. It seems probable that (inasmuch as her elder sister, Alice, had m. Lord Beaumont, an Englishman) her right to the Earldom was recognised in Scotland, and that she was the " Margaret, Countess of Buchan," so described in a charter, about 1310, of her [2nd?] husband, Sir William de Lindsay, Lord of Symontoun, co. Ayr, who speaks of that Lady as his 2nd wife, and of a former wife Alice, living as such 1296. It is to be noted that Sir James Lindsay, Lord of Crawford and Symontoun (apparently h. male of the above) witnesses a charter, about 1394, as "Lord of Buchan." {ex inform. W. A. Lindsay). See also an article by Joseph Bain, F.S.A., in the Genealogist, N. S., vol. iv, p. 194, as to the succession of these sisters to the exclusion of the h. male, Master William Comyn (Provost of the Royal Chapel of St. Andrews), their uncle, who however sur- rendered his rights before 1311/12. The above-mentioned Sir John Ross, and his nephew and h., William, Earl of Ross [S.], are sometimes alleged to have styled themselves Earls of Buchan [S.]. The latter resigned his titles in 1370, and had a new grant thereof.
