Title/occupation:
chaplain (king's)
- Title type
- chaplain (king's)
- From Source
-
3/167/5 (Scone Lib., no. 98)
- Firm date
- circa 1212 X 4 December 1214
- Probable date
- prob. × 17 Aug. 1214
- Dating Notes
- Appearance of Walter Comyn and Robert, chaplain of the king, in the charter record × election of Robert the chaplain to the bishopric of Ross; probably by the time William Comyn succeeded to earldom of Buchan. Walter Comyn witnessed royal charters on 19 Jan. 1213 (<em>RRS</em> ii, no. 511), 25 Feb. 1213 (<em>RRS</em> ii, no. 513), 28 Feb. 1213 (<em>RRS</em> ii, no. 514), and 16 May, 1212×14 (_RRS_ ii, no. 521). He was also present at the royal court on the earldom of Menteith, 6 Dec. 1213 at Edinburgh (Fraser, _Menteith_, no. 7). There was also a Walter Comyn, king’s clerk, in 1225 (_Moray Reg._, C.O., no. 6).