Everything about Robert Comine totally explained
Robert Comine (also
Robert de Comines,
Robert de Comyn) was very briefly
earl of Northumbria. His name suggests that he originally came from
Comines, then in the
County of Flanders, and entered the following of
William the Conqueror. He was sent to the north as earl from 1068–1069 after the deposition of
Gospatric. He got as far as
Durham with his 700 men, where the
bishop,
Ethelwin, warned him that an army was mobilised against him. He ignored the advice and, on
28 January 1069, the rebels converged on Durham and killed many of his men in the streets, eventually setting fire to the bishop's house where Robert was staying. He was consumed in the blaze. After this attack, Ethelwin turned against the Normans and gathered an army in Durham before marching on
York, leading to the
Harrying of the North in retaliation by King William's army.
In spite of the similarity of names, there's no known link between Robert, who was a nobleman, and the
Comyn, originally Cumin, family who were important in thirteenth century
Scottish politics.
Sources
- Stenton, Frank M. Anglo-Saxon England. 3rd ed. Oxford University Press: Oxford, 1971.
- Young, Alan, Robert the Bruce's Rivals: The Comyns, 1212–1314. Tuckwell Press, East Linton, 1997.
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