Jardine Comyn, Lord of Inverallochy, also known as Jordan, was a son of

William Comyn, Lord of Badenoch William Comyn was Lord of Badenoch and Earl of Buchan. He was one of the seven children of Richard Comyn, Justiciar of Lothian, and Hextilda of Tynedale. He was born in Scotland, in Altyre, Moray in 1163 and died in Buchan in 1233 where he is bu ...

later the

Earl of Buchan The Mormaer () or Earl of Buchan () was originally the provincial ruler of the medieval province of Buchan. Buchan was the first Mormaerdom in the High Medieval Kingdom of the Scots to pass into the hands of a non-Scottish family in the male li ...

and was granted the lands of Inverallochy from his father upon William becoming the Earl of Buchan,

jure uxoris ''Jure uxoris'' (a Latin phrase meaning "by right of (his) wife"), citing . describes a title of nobility used by a man because his wife holds the office or title ''suo jure'' ("in her own right"). Similarly, the husband of an heiress could becom ...

of his second wife Margaret, Countess of Buchan.

Life

Jardine was a son of

and his first wife Sarah Fitzhugh. He received Inverallochy in Buchan from his father William Comyn, Earl of Buchan

in 1225, confirmed in a charter in 1277, by his half brother

Alexander Comyn, Earl of Buchan Alexander Comyn, 2nd Earl of Buchan (died 1289) was a Scoto-Norman magnate who was one of the most important figures in the 13th century Kingdom of Scotland. He was the son of William Comyn, jure uxoris Earl of Buchan, and Marjory, Countess o ...

Marriage and issue

Jardine, is known to have had the following issue: *Philip, married Marjory, the daughter of Adam Wauchope of Culter.Burke, J. p. 1538.

Citations

References

*Burke, John. ''Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry, Volume 2'', H. Colburn, 1847.
People of Medieval Scotland, 1093–1314 - Jordan Comyn
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