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Historical person
John III Comyn, Lord of Badenoch, known as the Red Comyn, was one of the most powerful Scottish nobles during the Wars of Scottish Independence. His family possessed a strong claim to the throne and alternated between resistance to and accommodation with English power.
Robert the Bruce killed Comyn during a confrontation in the church at Dumfries in 1306. The act began a deadly feud and immediately preceded Bruce’s seizure of the Scottish crown.
In Nigel Tranter’s The Steps to the Empty Throne, Wallace’s example forces Bruce to confront what he owes to Scotland, but his ambitions bring him into bitter conflict with John Comyn of Badenoch, guardian of the realm and champion of the Balliol cause.
Series
Nigel Tranter’s Bruce Trilogy follows Robert Bruce from a politically divided Scottish magnate to the warrior-king who secured his country’s independence. Beginning during Edward I’s invasion of 1296, the sequence places Bruce between competing loyalties: his family’s claim to the throne, the resistance led by William Wallace, the…
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