Euphemia de Clavering

EUPHEMIA

Evidence from Calendar of Documents Relating to Scotland

12 May 1283-84: As Eufemia widow of William Comyn has made oath not to marry without the K.’s leave, the K.’s escheator ultra Trent is commanded to give her dower. Karnarvan. Similar writ to the escheator citra Trent. [Close, 12 Edw. I. m. 6.] CDS II: 251

Biographical Summary William Comyn, Lord of Kilbride

Family

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Comyn,_Lord_of_Kilbride

William was a son of David Comyn, Lord of Kilbride and Isabel de Valognes. William was the Sheriff of Ayr in 1263 - 1265. He succeeded upon his father's death, as Lord of Kilbride in 1247. He died in 1283.

Marriage and issue

William married Euphemia, the daughter of Roger FitzJohn, Lord of Warkworth and Clavering and Isabel de Dunbar, they had the following known issue:

1. John (d.c. 1290), without issue.
2. Edmund, married Maria, had issue.

Biographical Summary: Andrew Moray

Moray married secondly Euphemia, relict of William Comyn of Kilbride, daughter of Roger FitzJohn and Isabel de Dunbar.

William de Moray of Drumsagard

http://archive.org/stream/heraldryofmurray00john#page/4/mode/2up

He was succeeded by his brother :—

(8) Sir Andrew de Moravia, died between 6th November 1297 and 10th November 1300. He was taken prisoner at Dunbar in 1296 and sent to the Tower of London, where he died. He married, first, a daughter of Sir John Comyn of Badenoch, and had :

(a) Sir Andrew (No. 9).

He married, second, in 1286, Euphemia, widow of William Comyn of Kilbride. She died 1288, and the Scots Peerage suggests she may be ancestress of the Murrays of Cockpool.

https://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/SCOTTISH%20NOBILITY%20UNTITLED.htm...

EUPHEMIA, daughter of --- (-before Jan 1289). The Inquisitions after the death of "Eufemiæ quæ fuit uxor Willelmi Comyn de Killebridge" are dated 27 Jan 1289, 7 Feb 1289 and 10 Mar 1289, and name "Johannes filius dicti Willelmi et dictæ Eufemiæ…heres ipsius Eufemiæ" aged 23[291].

She married secondly as his second wife, Andrew Moray. The Fine Roll 25 May 1289 states that "Eufemia quæ fuit uxor Willelmi Comyn de Kyrkebride" married "Andreæ de Murreve sine licentia regis"[292]. A charter dated 11 Nov 1286 records redress sought by the six Guardians of Scotland from the Guardian of England for "Sir Andrew de Moray and Euphemia his wife"[293].

William & his wife had two children:

• (a) JOHN Comyn ([1263/64]-before 1315). ...
• b) EDMUND Comyn (-killed in battle Bannockburn 23 Jun 1314). ...

Comments

http://powys.org/pl_tree/ps16/ps16_014.html

In spite of MichaelAnne's firm statement that Euphemia was not the dau. of Roger and Isabella, John Ravilous is saying that she was (s.g.m. 4 Nov 2004, "Magna Carta line of Euphemia wife of William Comyn..."):

"Two items that support the present placement of the latter Euphemia (__) (Comyn) Murray as daughter of Isabel de Dunbar and Roger fitz John:

" 1. Isabel's brother Earl Patrick was alive at the time of the dispute between Euphemia and William Comyn on one part, and Isabel de Dunbar and her 2nd husband Simon Baard of the 2nd part. It seems illogical for Isabel to have been placed as guardian for the minor Euphemia as to the castle given her by the elder Euphemia de Brus, Countess of Dunbar, UNLESS Isabel was in fact Euphemia's mother, and not her aunt.

" 2. In discussing these finds with Andrew MacEwen last week, he stated that Euphemia was the daughter of Isabel de Dunbar and Roger fitz John."

Citations

• 1. Taylor, Alice. The Shape of the State in Medieval Scotland, 1124-1290 - Oxford Studies In Medieval European History, Oxford University Press, 2016. ISBN 9780191066108. p. 140.
• People of Medieval Scotland, 1093–1314 - William Comyn of Kilbride https://www.poms.ac.uk/record/person/9742/ “ Inquest concerning plea between Simon Baard and Isabel his wife, and William Comyn and Euphemia, his wife” factoid

References

• https://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/SCOTTISH%20NOBILITY%20UNTITLED.htm...
• MacEwen, Andrew. A Clarification of the Dunbar Pedigree. The Genealogist, 9(2) 1988: PDF
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Comyn Sir Edmund Comyn of Kilbride (died 1314) was a 13th-14th century Scottish noble. He was a younger son of William Comyn of Kilbride and Euphemia de Clavering.
• Magna Carta line of Eufemia (was Eufemia wife of William Comyn of Kilbride) (2004)