Research Catalog

Title

Robert the Bruce's rivals : the Comyns, 1212-1314 / Alan Young.

Author

Young, Alan, 1949-

Publication

East Linton, Scotland : Tuckwell Press, 1997.

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Description

xii, 244 p., [8] p. of plates : geneal. tables, maps; 23 cm.

Summary

The aim of this book is to examine the bad press gained by the Comyns in post-Bruce Scotland. Young highlights the Comyns' role as pillars of the Scottish monarchy and helps to establish the strength of opposition to Bruce at the end of the century.

Subject

• Robert I, King of Scots, 1274-1329 > Contemporaries
• Cummings family
• To 1603
• Aristocracy (Social class) > Scotland > History > To 1500
• Land tenure > Scotland > History > To 1500
• Scotland > History > Robert I, 1306-1329 > Biography
• Scotland > History > 1057-1603 > Biography

Genre/Form

• collective biographies.
• Biographies
• History
• Biographies.

Bibliography (note)

• Incudes bibliographical references (p. 215-231) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Maps and plans -- Family tree -- Bruce, Wallace, Balliol and Comyn : heroes and villains in Scottish tradition -- The foundation for the "Comyn Century" -- A testing time : Comyns, Bissets, Durwards and the English, 1230-1260 -- A responsible, aristocratic governing community, c.1260-1286 -- Balliol, Bruce and Comyn : guardians, competitors and constitutional crisis, 1286-1292 -- The Comyns and the kingship of John Balliol, 1292-1296 -- War and the challenge to the Comyns, 1296-1304 -- The Comyn murder, Bruce kingship and the Battle of Bannockburn, 1304-1314.

ISBN

1862320535

LCCN

^^^98145203^

OCLC

• 37976670
• SCSB-12085283

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library