{"id":4584,"date":"2013-02-21T10:14:54","date_gmt":"2013-02-21T18:14:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.wavewithoutashore.cwgservices.org\/?p=4584"},"modified":"2013-02-21T10:14:54","modified_gmt":"2013-02-21T18:14:54","slug":"badge-of-sir-john-iii-comyn-found-in-boggy-field-first-richard-iii-and-now-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/badge-of-sir-john-iii-comyn-found-in-boggy-field-first-richard-iii-and-now-this\/","title":{"rendered":"Badge of Sir John III Comyn found in boggy field&#8230;first Richard III and now this&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.co.uk\/2013\/02\/20\/robert-the-bruce-nobelman-badge-_n_2727659.html\">THE ARTICLE, with photos<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Talk about a guy who probably deserves rehabilitation in history: John III Comyn, Guardian of Scotland, son of John II Comyn, who held the same office, and Robert Brus succeeded William Wallace [who had that office for one year] after the Battle of Falkirk, which Wallace lost&#8230;and Robert ended up killing John in front of the altar of the church at Dumfries&#8212;some distance removed from this area (Kinross, outside Perth) &#8212;so John could have lost this ornament at some time prior to his murder.<\/p>\n<p>The Scottish chroniclers of this period were pro-Bruce and anti-Comyn, and slanted their account, even putting people in scenes where they were not present.<\/p>\n<p>Wiki the names: John II Comyn; John III Comyn; Robert the Bruce; William Wallace; Edward II; Guardians of Scotland.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not as well-informed on this as I should be: I know most of what I know about this era via geneological research. But every time I hear one good thing about Robert the Bruce (Robert Brus) I then hear two negatives. My impression of him is self-interest above all else.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE ARTICLE, with photos Talk about a guy who probably deserves rehabilitation in history: John III Comyn, Guardian of Scotland, son of John II Comyn, who held the same office, and Robert Brus succeeded William Wallace [who had that office for one year] after the Battle of Falkirk, which Wallace lost&#8230;and Robert ended up killing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":751,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/751"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4584\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}