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Some of you will agree that Andrew Murray was the unacknowledged architect of Stirling Bridge, but what does Roslin say about John Comyn?

I was going to follow this question up with one about an alternative-history Balliol version of the Bruce-Randolph-Douglas command group (Comyn-de Soulis-Wallace)? However, if this was going to happen then did it not have ample opportunity to appear before 1305?

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The Comyn-Bruce distrust had a lot to do with it I suspect. Neither of them really trusted Balliol either, as he had let Scotland down badly, and wasn't much of a figure to rally round. Wallace was too lowly to have a great influence on the nobility. Too much in-fighting going on during the period between 1303-05, and then Wallace was betrayed and murdered. Comyn was dead too by February 1306, leaving Bruce as the only real potential candidate or military leader. Took a long time for him to establish himself as such, and Comyn was facing the same long haul as he wasn't greatly trusted by many of the other nobles - a bit of a grasping man who obviously fancied his chances of becoming, if not king, then the king-maker. Following Bruce's victory, Comyn was effectively written out of history. Stalin didn't invent the 'purging' of people from the official records!

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This is probably the crux of why he could not succeed.

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