Robert Comyn

• Preferred Name: Robert Comyn^[1]
  
• Gender: M
  
• Affiliation: with note: Description: Robert came to England with William the Conqueror. It is understood that he/his family originally came from Comines in Flanders. He was slain whilst attempting to take possession of Northumberland.
  
• Death: 28 JAN 1069 in Durham, Northumberland, England (Killed by the Northumbrians) at LATI: N4.7643 LONG: E1.571
  
• FSID: 9474-6XV
  
• Birth: ABT 1012 in Normandie, France at LATI: N8.928 LONG: E0.5326
  
• Notes:

  The short reign of Robert Comyn (de Comines), Earl of Northumberland
  In the early years William the Conqueror and his French, Breton and Flemish followers didn’t yet feel secure in England. English resistance and rebellion was rife. Eventually in 1069, the north of Eng
  
  === Earldom of Northumberland.... ===
  Sir Robert was granted the governorship as Earl of Northumberland by King William The Conqueror in 1068. But he and his compliment of between 500-700 Knights were so ruthless & cruel to the native inhabitants of the land, that on 28 January 1069 the people rose up in rebellion and slaughtered his Knights and set fire to the Bishop’s home in Durham that Sir Robert was sleeping in also killing him.

• m. 1052 in Moray, Scotland

1. John de Comyn, b. about 1043? in Morayshire, Scotland     d. ABT 1100 in Badenoch, Inverness-shire, Scotland

1. Title: Wikipedia
   Author: Creighton, Mandell (1887). "Comin, Robert de". In Stephen, Leslie. Dictionary of National Biography. 11. London: Smith, Elder & Co. p. 440.Stenton, Frank M. Anglo-Saxon England. 3rd ed. Oxford University Press: Oxford, 1971.
   Publication: Name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_de_Comines;