Robert the Bruce's Rivals
Subtitle: The Comyns, 1212-1314
Publisher: Tuckwell Press, Ltd.
Published: July 1, 1998
Place of publication: East Linton East Lothian, Scotland
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9781862320536
Subjects: Biography: general; British & Irish history: c 1000 to c 1500; c 1000 CE to c 1500; History; Biography / Autobiography; History: World; Scotland; General; Contemporaries; Cummings family; Robert; Europe - Ireland; Medieval; Aristocracy (Social class); Land tenure; To 1500
Table of contents: title: Maps and plans; title: Family tree; title: Bruce, Wallace, Balliol and Comyn : heroes and villains in Scottish tradition; title: The foundation for the "Comyn Century"; title: A testing time : Comyns, Bissets, Durwards and the English, 1230-1260; title: A responsible, aristocratic governing community, c.1260-1286; title: Balliol, Bruce and Comyn : guardians, competitors and constitutional crisis, 1286-1292; title: The Comyns and the kingship of John Balliol, 1292-1296; title: War and the challenge to the Comyns, 1296-1304; title: The Comyn murder, Bruce kingship and the Battle of Bannockburn, 1304-1314