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Robert the Bruce's rivals : the Comyns, 1212-1314

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

Genre/Form

collective biographies.
Biographies
History
Biographies.

Bibliography (note)

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

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
9781862320536
1862320179
9781862320178

LCCN

98145203

OCLC

ocm37976670
37976670
SCSB-14276728

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library