King Robert II Of SCOTLAND

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• Affiliation: ; House of Stewart - Founder
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• TitleOfNobility: ; Grandson of Robert, The Bruce, 1st Monarch of the House of Stewart, 15 issue, succeeded his uncle King David II)
• TitleOfNobility: ; King of Scotland, Guardian of Scotland, High Steward of Scotland, Earl of Atholl, Earl of Strathearn
• Name: Robert STEWART
• Name: Robert STEWART
• Religion: ; Roman Catholic
• Restored to The Line of Succession: Jul 1326, Cambuskenneth Abbey, Stirlingshire, Scotland; David Bruce became heir to the throne of Scotland upon his birth on 5 March 1324, displacing his nephew from the line of succession. However, 2 heirs are better than only one, and the death of David's twin brother John reminded everyone how fragile baby's
• DUNDONALD CASTLE: 1371, Dundonald, Ayrshire, Scotland; Robert Stewart built Dundonald Castle in 1371, probably to mark his accession to the throne as Robert II, and as a safe place for his family to live.
• Ascension to Throne: 22 Feb 1371
• TitleOfNobility: Between 22 Feb 1371 and 19 Apr 1390; 35th King of Scotland - reigned for 19 years

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Robert II (2 March 1316 ? 19 April 1390) was King of Scots from 1371 to his death in 1390. He was the first monarch of the House of Stewart as the son of Walter Stewart, 6th High Steward of Scotland, and of Marjorie Bruce, daughter of the Scottish king Robert the Bruce by his first wife Isabella of Mar.

In 1336, he first married Elizabeth Mure, daughter of Sir Adam Mure of Rowallan. The marriage was criticized for being uncanonical, so he remarried her in 1349 after receiving a papal dispensation in 1347.
From this union, ten children reached adulthood:
- John, who became King of Scotland as Robert III, married Anabella Drummond.
- Walter, husband of Isabella MacDuff, Countess of Fife.
- Robert, Earl of Fife and Duke of Albany, married Margaret Graham, Countess of Menteith, and 2nd Muriella Keith.
- Alexander Stewart, Earl of Buchan, "The Wolf of Badenoch", married Euphemia of Ross.
- Margaret, married John of Islay, Lord of the Isles.
- Marjorie, married John Dunbar, Earl of Moray, then Sir Alexander Keith.
- Elizabeth married Thomas de la Hay, Lord High Constable of Scotland.
- Isabella, married James Douglas, 2nd Earl of Douglas, and 2nd John Edmonstone of Edmonstone.
- Johanna (Jean), married Sir John Keith, then 2nd John Lyon, Lord of Glamis and 3rd Sir James Sandilands.
- Katherine, married Sir Robert Logan of Grugar and Restalrig, Lord High Admiral of Scotland.

In 1355, Robert married his second wife Euphemia de Ross, daughter of Hugh, Earl of Ross. They had four children:
- David Stewart, Earl of Strathearn, born about 1356 and died in 1389.
- Walter Stewart, Earl of Atholl, born about 1360, beheaded at Edinburgh in 1437 for being involved in the assassination of King James I.
- Elizabeth, married in 1380 David Lindsay, 1st Earl of Crawford.
- Egidia, married William Douglas of Nithsdale.


[Information added by OldeBruce in April 2022:
Edward Bruce, younger brother of Robert the Bruce, was named heir to the throne but he died without legitimate children on 3 December 1318 in a battle near Dundalk in Ireland. Marjorie by this time had died in a riding accident ? probably in 1317. Parliament decreed her infant son, Robert Stewart, as heir presumptive, but this lapsed on 5 March 1324 on the birth of a son, David, to King Robert and his second wife, Elizabeth de Burgh. Robert Stewart inherited the title of High Steward of Scotland on his father's death on 9 April 1326, and a Parliament held in July 1326 confirmed the young Steward as heir should Prince David die without a successor. In 1329 King Robert I died and the six-year-old David succeeded to the throne with Sir Thomas Randolph, Earl of Moray appointed Guardian of Scotland.

Edward Balliol, son of King John Balliol, assisted by the English and Scottish nobles disinherited by Robert I, invaded Scotland inflicting heavy defeats on the Bruce party on 11 August 1332 at Dupplin Moor and Halidon Hill on 19 July 1333. Robert fought at Halidon, where his uncle and former guardian, Sir James Stewart, was killed. Following this battle, Robert's lands in the west were given by Balliol to his supporter David Strathbogie, the titular Earl of Atholl. Robert took refuge in the fortress of Dumbarton Castle in the Clyde estuary to join his uncle, King David. In May 1334 David escaped to France leaving Robert and John Randolph, 3rd Earl of Moray as joint Guardians of the kingdom. Robert succeeded in regaining his lands but following Randolph's capture by the English in July 1335, his possessions were once again targeted by the forces of Balliol and King Edward III of England. This may have persuaded Robert to submit to Balliol and the English king and may explain his removal as Guardian by September 1335. The Guardianship transferred to Sir Andrew Murray of Bothwell but following his death in 1338 Robert was re-appointed and retained the office until King David returned from France in June 1341. Robert accompanied David into battle at Neville's Cross on 17 October 1346 but he and Patrick Dunbar, Earl of March escaped or fled the field and David was taken prisoner. In October 1357, the king was ransomed for 100,000 marks to be paid in installments over ten years.

Robert joined a rebellion against David in 1363 but submitted to him following a threat to his right of succession. In 1364, David presented a proposal to Parliament that would cancel the remaining ransom debt if it was agreed that a Plantagenet heir would inherit the Scottish throne should he die without issue. This was rejected and Robert succeeded to the throne at the age of 55 following David's unexpected death in 1371. England still controlled large sectors in the Lothians and in the border country so King Robert allowed his southern earls to engage in actions in the English zones to regain their territories, halted trade with England and renewed treaties with France. By 1384, the Scots had re-taken most of the occupied lands, but following the commencement of Anglo-French peace talks, Robert was reluctant to commit Scotland to all-out war and obtained Scotland's inclusion in the peace treaty. Robert's peace strategy was a factor in the virtual coup in 1384 when he lost control of the country, first to his eldest son, John, Earl of Carrick, afterwards King Robert III, and then from 1388 to John's younger brother, Robert, Earl of Fife, afterwards the first Duke of Albany. Robert II died in Dundonald Castle in 1390 and was buried at Scone Abbey.

Heir presumptive
Robert Stewart, born in 1316, was the only child of Walter Stewart, High Steward of Scotland and King Robert I's daughter Marjorie Bruce, who died probably in 1317 following a riding accident.[1] He had the upbringing of a Gaelic noble on the Stewart lands in Bute, Clydeside, and in Renfrew.[1] In 1315 parliament removed Marjorie's right as heir to her father in favour of her uncle, Edward Bruce.[2] Edward was killed at the Battle of Faughart, near Dundalk on 14 October 1318,[3] resulting in a hastily arranged Parliament in December to enact a new entail naming Marjorie's son, Robert, as heir should the king die without a successor.[4] The birth of a son, afterwards David II, to King Robert on 5 March 1324 cancelled Robert Stewart's position as heir presumptive, but a Parliament at Cambuskenneth in July 1326 restored him in the line of succession should David die without an heir.[2] This reinstatement of his status was accompanied by the gift of lands in Argyll, Roxburghshire and the Lothians.[5]

The first war of independence began in the reign of King John Balliol.[6] His short reign was bedeviled by Edward I's insistence on his overlordship of Scotland. The Scottish leadership concluded that only war could release the country from the English king's continued weakening of Balliol's sovereignty and so finalised a treaty of reciprocal assistance with France in October 1295.[7] The Scots forayed into England in March 1296? this incursion together with the French treaty angered the English king and provoked an invasion of Scotland taking Berwick on 30 March before defeating the Scots army at Dunbar on 27 April.[8] John Balliol submitted to Edward and resigned the throne to him before being sent to London as a prisoner. Despite this, resistance to the English led by William Wallace and Andrew Moray had emerged in the name of King John Balliol.[8] On their deaths, Robert the Bruce continued to resist the English and eventually succeeded in defeating the forces of Edward II of England and gained the Scottish throne for himself.[7]

David Bruce, aged five, became king on 7 June 1329 on the death of his father Robert. Walter the Steward had died earlier on 9 April 1327,[9] and the orphaned eleven-year-old Robert was placed under the guardianship of his uncle, Sir James Stewart of Durrisdeer,[2] who along with Thomas Randolph, Earl of Moray, and William Lindsey, Archdeacon of St Andrews were appointed as joint Guardians of the kingdom.[10] David's accession kindled the second independence war which threatened Robert's position as heir.[11] In 1332 Edward Balliol, son of the deposed John Balliol, spearheaded an attack on the Bruce sovereignty with the tacit support of King Edward III of England and the explicit endorsement of 'the disinherited'.[12] Edward Balliol's forces delivered heavy defeats on the Bruce supporters at Dupplin Moor on 11 August 1332 and again at Halidon Hill on 19 July 1333, at which the 17-year-old Robert participated.[10] Robert's estates were overrun by Balliol, who granted them to David Strathbogie, titular earl of Atholl, but Robert evaded capture and gained protection at Dumbarton Castle where King David was also taking refuge.[11] Very few other strongholds remained in Scottish hands in the winter of 1333? only the castles of Kildrummy (held by Christian Bruce, elder sister of Robert I and wife of Andrew Murray of Bothwell), Loch Leven, Loch Doon, and Urquhart held out against Balliol forces.[13]

Dairsie Castle where the 1335 Parliament was held
In May 1334, the situation looked dire for the house of Bruce and David II gained safety in France. Robert set about winning back his lands in the west of Scotland.

Was in command of the second division of the Scotch Army at Halidon Hill, and was one of the few who escaped the carnage of that disastrous day. See Europ?isch Stammtafeln Band II tafel 69. There is some confusion over which daughter is which and who are their mothers which still needs some clarification.

Robert II (2 March 1316 ? 19 April 1390) was King of Scots from 1371 to his death in 1390. He was the first monarch of the House of Stewart as the son of Walter Stewart, 6th High Steward of Scotland, and of Marjorie Bruce, daughter of the Scottish king Robert the Bruce by his first wife Isabella of Mar.

Edward Bruce, younger brother of Robert the Bruce, was named heir presumptive but died without heirs on 3 December 1318. Marjorie Bruce had died probably in 1317 in a riding accident and parliament decreed her infant son, Robert Stewart, as heir presumptive, but this lapsed on 5 March 1324 on the birth of a son, David, to King Robert and his second wife, Elizabeth de Burgh. Robert Stewart became High Steward of Scotland on his father's death on 9 April 1327, and in the same year parliament confirmed the young Steward as heir should Prince David die without a successor. In 1329 King Robert I died and the six-year-old David succeeded to the throne under the guardianship of Thomas Randolph, Earl of Moray.

Robert married Elizabeth MURE, of Rowallan in 1348 in Dundonald, Ayrshire, Scotland. Elizabeth (daughter of Sir Adam IV MURE, of Rowallan and Janet Mure of POKELLIE) was born on 2 Mar 1320 in Rowallan Castle, Kilmaurs, AYR, Scotland; died in 1354 in Dundonald Castle, Ayrshire, Scotland; was buried in Paisley Abbey, Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Moira DE LECHE. Moira was born on 2 Mar 1320 in Kilmarnock, Ayrshire, Scotland; died in 1356 in Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland; was buried in Paisley Abbey, Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Robert married Euphemia De ROSS on 2 May 1355. Euphemia (daughter of Earl Hugh De ROSS and Margaret GRAHAM) was born about 1334 in Scotland; died about 1387. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• TitleOfNobility: ; 4th Dowager, Countess of Mar & Countess of Angus, Lady Abernethyernethy
• TitleOfNobility: ; Princess of Scotland
• Residence: 1376, Kintyre and Knapdale, Argyll, Scotland; Kintyre and hall of Knapdale - settled by King Robert II on John of Iye and his wife Margaret, the King's daughter

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Margaret Stewart, also known as Princess Margaret, was the oldest daughter of King Robert II of Scotland and his 1st wife, Elizabeth Mure. She was born about 1338, long before her father became king of Scotland.

Margaret's parents married in 1336, however, because they were not married in a church the marriage was criticized as uncanonical and the children considered illegitimate. Her parents married a second time in 1349, legitimizing their 10 children. Margaret's oldest brother John Stewart, succeeded their father as king of Scotland, taking the reginal name King Robert III.

In 1350, Margaret married John of Islay, Lord of the Isles, becoming his 2nd wife. John of Islay, also known as John MacDonald, was a strong supporter of Margaret's father and had to divorce his 1st wife, Aime, before they could marry.

Margaret and John had 8 children:

- Donald (Domhnall) of Islay, Lord of the Isles, d. 1423, married Mary, daughter of Sir Walter Leslie.
- John M?r Tanister, d. 1427, married Marjorie Bisset, daughter of Sir Hugh Bisset.
- Alastair Carrach, d. c. 1440, married Mary, daughter of Malcolm, Earl of Lennox.
- Agnes, married Sir John Montgomerie of Ardrossan. They had a son, Alexander Montgomerie, 1st Lord Montgomerie.
- Hugh.,Thane of Glentilt.
- Marcus
- Mary, married Lachlan Maclean of Duart.
- Elizabeth, also known as Margaret, married Angus Du Mackay, 7th of Strathnaver.

On 22 February 1371 Margaret's father, who had been Guardian of Scotland and acting ruler for many years, became King of Scotland, according Margaret the title of Princess of Scotland.

Although Margaret's husband John had 3 sons from his first marriage, Godfrey, John and Ranald, upon his marriage to Margaret it was agreed they were to be passed over in the succession in favour of Margaret's children. Therefore, when John died in 1386, their son Donald succeeded him as Lord of the Isles.

Margaret survived her husband. She did not remarry, and is believed to have died in 1410.

Margaret married John "Iain" Islay MACDONALD, Carrach on 14 Jun 1350 in Kyle, Ayrshire, Scotland. John (son of Angus MACDONALD, Og Lord Isles and dau MACHENRY, of Glencoe) was born in 1305 in Finlaggan Castle, Isle Of Islay, Argyll, Scotland; died in 1386 in Ardtornish Castle, Morven, Argyll, Scotland; was buried in 1386 in Saint Orans Chapel Cemetery, Isle Of Iona, Argyll, Scotland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Name: John Stewart, Earl of Carrick
• Name: Robert STEWART
• Crowned King: 14 Aug 1390, Old Scone, Perthshire, Scotland
• JAMES CAPTURED BY THE ENGLISH: 22 Mar 1406, English Channel, At Sea; Wanting him out of reach of his brother Robert, Duke of Albany, King Robert III sent his only remaining son James to safety in France, Unfortunately James was intercepted by the English and taken hostage by King Henry IV.

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Name: Born John Stewart, regnal name - Robert III, King of Scots
Father: Robert II, King of Scotland
Mother: Elizabeth Mure

King of Scotts (19 April 1390 ? 4 April 1406)
Earl of Atholl (1367 ? 1390)
Earl of Carrick (1368 ? 5 March 1390)
High Steward of Scotland (c. 1371? 1390)
Guardian of Scotland (1384 ? 1388)

House of: Stewart
Born: 1337
Ascended to the throne: April 19, 1390
Crowned: August 14, 1390 at Scone Abbey, Perthshire
Married: Annabella Drummond, 1366/7
Children: 3 sons and 4 daughters
Died: April 4, 1406, at Dundonald Castle, Ayrshire
Buried at: Paisley Abbey, Renfrewshire
Succeeded by: his son James I

Son of Robert II he was timid, retiring and badly injured following a kick from a horse. He took the name Robert because his name John was considered a bad omen after the hated John Balliol

He told his Queen that he was 'the worst of kings and most miserable of men'. The reign was beset by problems including rivalry between the Highlanders, his brothers and the lords of the isles. His brother Robert Duke of Albany may have been responsible for the death of Robert III's son David.

In 1402 the forces of Henry IV of England invaded the lowlands and following two defeats of the Scots briefly occupied Edinburgh. Robert sent his 10 year old 2nd son James to France in 1406 for safety but he was captured at sea during the journey and taken prisoner by the English. The news of his son's capture was said to have hastened the death of Robert who died shortly afterwards.
Timeline for King Robert III of Scotland
YearEvent
1390Robert III becomes king. He delegates power to his younger brother, the Earl of Fife, later the Duke of Albany
1402English defeat Scots in the Battle of Nesbit Moor and the Battle of Humbleton Hill.
1406Robert is disabled in a riding accident and his eldest son is killed possibly by the Duke of Albany.
1406Robert sends his second son to James to France but he is captured by English near Flamborough Head. James is taken to London, where Henry IV of England confines him in the Tower of London for 18 years.
1406King Robert III dies and James I ascends the throne but is not crowned until 1424 as he is a prisoner of the English.

https://www.britroyals.com/scots.asp?id=robert3

Robert married Annabella DRUMMOND, Queen of Scotland on 13 Mar 1365 in Dispensation, Kyle, Ayrshire, Scotland. Annabella (daughter of Sir John DRUMMOND and Mary Margaret MONTIFEX, Countess of Lennox) was born on 14 Aug 1350 in Scone, Cargill, Perthshire, Scotland; was christened in 1350 in Drymen, Stirlingshire, Scotland; died in Oct 1401 in Scone Palace, Perthshire, Scotland; was buried in Oct 1401 in Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Name: Nithsdale Jill Egidia STEWART
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Egidia is a daughter of Robert II Stewart and Euphemia Ross.[1] She was known for her great beauty, which was so renown that the King of France was said to have offered for her hand and sent an artist to Scotland to paint her likeness. Egidia, however, fell in love with one of the most famous knights in Scotland at that time, Sir William Douglas of Nithsdale, the illegitimate son of Archibald Douglas, 3rd earl of Douglas, by an unknown mistress, and in 1387 she married him.[1][2][3][4] On their marriage, an annuity of ?300 was granted to "Douglas, and the king's daughter, Egidia" and the first of these payments appears in the Exchequer Rolls of 1388.[2]

There were two children from this marriage:[5]

William Douglas, Knt. of Nithsdale[1][5]
Giles Douglas; m(1) c.1407 Henry Sinclair, earl of Orkney;[1][5] m(2) aft. 29 Apr 1418 Alexander Stewart;[1] she succeeded her brother in the territory of Nithsdale[1]
Sir William Douglas was assassinated (probably) in 1392.[1][2] The date of Egid

Egidia married Sir William DOUGLAS in 1387 in Fordoun, Kincardineshire, Scotland. William (son of Earl Archibald "The Grim" DOUGLAS and Joan (Jean) DE MORRAY) was born about 1356 in Nithsdale, Dumfriesshire, Scotland; died in 1392 in Pomorskie, Poland; was buried in 1392 in Ayrshire, Scotland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Name: Domhnall mac Domhnaill of Ross
• Name: Donald of Harlaw
• MilitaryService: 24 Jul 1411; fought in the Battle of Harlaw

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Donald, Lord of the Isles (Scottish Gaelic: D?mhnall; died 1423), was the son and successor of John of Islay, Lord of the Isles and chief of Clan Donald. The Lordship of the Isles was based in and around the Scottish west-coast island of Islay, but under Donald's father had come to include many of the other islands off the west coast of Scotland, as well as Morvern, Garmoran, Lochaber, Kintyre and Knapdale on the mainland.

Donald was the grandson of King Robert II of Scotland and first cousin of King Robert III; he took pride in his royal blood, even adopting the royal tressure to surround his coat of arms.

While it is customary to portray the Lords of the Isles as divorced from the mainstream of Scottish political life, and as representatives of a brand of lordship distinct from the rest of Scotland, this view obscures the fact that Donald was only one of many magnates who held large lordships with little interference from the crown in late 14th and early 15th century Scotland.[1] The Douglas kindred of southern Scotland and the Albany Stewarts had similar roles as Donald.

Early rule
Donald spent some of his first years as Lord of the Isles suppressing a revolt by his brother John M?r. John was Donald's younger brother, and resented his meagre inheritance. Although he was recognised as heir-apparent (t?naiste), he only received patches of land in Kintyre and Islay. The rebellion started in 1387 and went on into the 1390s, and John obtained the support of the MacLean kindred. However, John and the MacLeans were eventually forced to submit to Donald, and by 1395 John M?r had been forced into Ireland. There he entered the service of King Richard II of England and later established a MacDonald lordship in Antrim.

Conflict with the Stewarts
Suppression of the revolt enabled Donald to turn his attention northwards and eastwards. Most of the area to the north and east of the Lordship, that is Skye, Ross, Badenoch and Urquhart, was under the control of Alexander Stewart, Earl of Buchan, famously known as the "Wolf of Badenoch". The Stewarts had been building up their power in the central Highlands and north of Scotland since the death of John Randolph, 3rd Earl of Moray in 1346. Alexander had acquired control of the lordship of Badenoch, the earldom of Buchan and the Justiciarship of Scotia. He had been appointed "Lieutenant of the North", giving him the flexibility to exercise total control over most of Scotland north of the mounth. Alexander was at once the de facto ruler of northern Scotland as well as the means by which the crown itself exercised control.

However, there had been complaints over the activities of his caterans (war bands). More importantly, Alexander's position had become threatening not only to the crown, but also to Euphemia I, Countess of Ross, her son Alexander and the titular Dunbar Earl of Moray. Late in 1388, soon after becoming Guardian of the Kingdom, Robert Stewart, Earl of Fife (created Duke of Albany in 1398) deprived Alexander of the Justiciarship. The assault of Alexander's position continued into the 1390s. Donald and his brother Alexander of Lochaber were in a perfect position to benefit. In 1394, the latter entered a 17-year agreement with the Earl of Moray, taking over Alexander Stewart's role as "protector" of the wealthy comital and episcopal lands in the Moray lowlands. The MacDonalds were in possession of Urquhart Castle by the end of 1395, and had given control of the Duart Castle to Maclean of Duart.

The Guardian soon turned his hostility against Donald and his family. Alexander of Lochaber had been using his role as "protector" to further his own lordship, including granting episcopal lands to his military followers. In 1398, Robert Stewart (now Duke of Albany) was called upon to take action, but the well-prepared expedition in the end came to nothing. Lochaber continued his activities, and in a raid of 1402 burned the burgh of Elgin along with the manses of the canons belonging to Elgin Cathedral. For this he was excommunicated by William Spynie, bishop of Moray. Later in the year Alexander visited Spynie to seek forgiveness and was thereafter absolved.

Ross claims
Donald himself was causing still further concern when in the same year, following the death of Alexander Leslie, Earl of Ross, Donald pressed the claims of Mariota, Alexander Leslie's sister and Donald's wife, to the possession of Ross. Donald attempted to gain control of the earldom. Sometime after 1405 but before 1411, Donald gained control of Dingwall Castle, the chief seat of the earldom. In the year after the death of the nominal king, Robert III, Donald sent emissaries to England, to make contact with the heir of the Scottish throne, the captive James Stewart. King Henry IV of England sent his own emissaries to Donald in the following year to negotiate an alliance against Albany.

With control over the principal seat of the earldom of Ross and support of the exiled heir to the Scottish throne, in 1411 Donald felt strong enough to march against Albany's main northern ally, Alexander Stewart, Earl of Mar. At the Battle of Harlaw, Donald failed to inflict a decisive victory, and withdrew back to the western highlands. In the aftermath, Albany was able to retake Dingwall and seize control of Easter Ross. In 1415, the heir of Alexander Leslie, Euphemia II, resigned the earldom to Albany. Donald prepared for war and proclaimed himself "Lord of Ross". Although Albany appointed his own son John Stewart to the earldom, Donald's wife continued to regard herself as the rightful Countess.

Donald died in 1423 in Islay. He was succeeded by his son Alexander.[2]

Marriage and children
He married Mary Leslie, Countess of Ross. They had at least three children:

Alexander Macdonald, 10th Earl of Ross who died on 7 May 1449
Angus Macdonald
Anna Macdonald who married Duncan Maclagmayn

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_of_Islay,_Lord_of_the_Isles

When Donald MacDonald was born in 1364,The Isles of Scotland,his father, John, was 38 and his mother, Margaret, was 22. He had one daughter with Mariota Leslie in 1410. He died in 1423 in Dingwall, Ross-shire, Scotland, at the age of 59.

Donald married Mariota LESLIE, Countess of Ross on 8 Oct 1395 in Dingwall, Ross-Shire, Scotland. Mariota (daughter of Lord Walter LESLIE, 7th. Earl of Ross and Euphemia OF ROSS) was born in 1363 in Leslie, Aberdeenshire, Scotland; died in 1429 in Dingwall, Ross-Shire, Scotland; was buried in 1429 in Scotland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Marriage and issue
In 1390 he married Lady Margaret (d.1451), eldest daughter of John Stewart, Earl of Carrick, who later became King Robert III. Of their children:

Archibald Douglas, 5th Earl of Douglas, and Wigton, &c., (1390? 1439), who succeeded to the earldom.
Elizabeth (d. c. 1451), who married first John Stewart, 2nd Earl of Buchan, secondly Thomas, son of Alexander Stewart, Earl of Mar, and thirdly William Sinclair, 3rd Earl of Orkney (d. 1480).
William Douglas (b. before 1401)
Sir James Douglas (d. 17 August 1424)
Mary Douglas, who married Sir Simon Glendinning of Parton. Their daughter Janet married Gilbert Grierson 1st Lord of Lag.
Douglas in Literature

Margaret married Archibald DOUGLAS, 4th Earl of Douglas in 1390 in Scotland. Archibald (son of Earl Archibald "The Grim" DOUGLAS and Joan (Jean) DE MORRAY) was born in 1369 in Douglas, Lanarkshire, Scotland; was christened in 1369 in Douglas Castle, Lanarkshire, Scotland; died on 17 Aug 1424 in Verneuil, France, Buried in Tours Cathedral (battle); was buried on 2 Sep 1424 in Tours Cathedral, Tours, Indre-et-Loire, Centre-Val de Loire, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Family/Spouse: Sir James KENNEDY. James was born in 1376 in Castle Dunure, Maybole, Ayrshire, Scotland; was christened in 1376 in Maybole, Ayrshire, Scotland; died before 8 Nov 1408 in Scotland; was buried in 1408 in Scotland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Name: Elizabeth STUART

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Elizabeth Stewart Princess of Scotland
1387? 1411
BIRTH 1387 ? Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland
DEATH 3 NOV 1411 ? Dalkeith, Midlothian, Scotland



Sir William Douglas, 6th Baron of Drumlanrig, had a charter as 'son and heir apparent of James Douglas of Drumlanrig' of the Barony and Castle of Drumlanrig, 19 May 1492 (i.e. during his father's lifetime). He also had charters of land in Dalgarnock, 22 Aug 1500; of the Barony of Tibbers, 23 Feb 1509; and of the Barony of Hawick, 15 jun 1511.


Death: Sept 1513 at Flodden, or possibly as a result of wounds sustained at the battle.(1)


Father: James (Sir) (5th Baron of Drumlanrig) Douglas
Mother: Janet Scott, dau of David Scott of Buccleuch

Marriage 1 Elizabeth, dau of Sir John Gordon of Lochinvar

Married: 1470??
He married Elizabeth Stewart, daughter of Sir Robert Stewart.


Children
James (Sir) (7th Baron of Drumlanrig) Douglas
Robert - ancestor of Douglas of Burford. He held the office of Provost of Lincluden
Janet (of Drumlanrig) Douglas = Robert, 5th Lord Maxwell, 4 June 1509 (Some say 4th Lord Maxwell)
Agnes? = Andrew Cunnyngham of Birkshaw (but see also Marion, dau of the 6th Laird
I also record John Douglas, father of Mr Douglas of Craigincune, but this is not recognised by some other sources. He is the forebear of the Douglas of Arlkand family.(2)


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1. Sir William died on 10 September 1513, the day after Flodden, 'on the field of war,' as appears from an inventory of his goods made by his widow, he dying intestate.

2. John, described as brother of James Douglas of Drumlanrig in letters of remission to them and many others for the murder of Thomas Maclellan of Bomby, dated 25 August 1526.
On 2 March 1545-46 he, by a very curious bond, pledged himself to his elder brother that if from that day forward he played at cards, dice, tables, or other games he would renounce all his heritages to his brother, who had given him ?48 money down, gold and silver, to abstain from such play.
He was probably the father of Mr. John Douglas of Craigincune, who in 1578 is described as 'brothir sone' of Sir James Douglas of Drumlanrig.

http://www.douglashistory.co.uk/history/william6thofdrumlanrig.htm#.YqpJ9XbMLb0

Family/Spouse: James DOUGLAS, of Dalkeith, Knight. James (son of Sir James DOUGLAS, of Dalkeith and Agnes DUNBAR) was born in 1373 in Dalkeith, Midlothian, Scotland, United Kingdom; died in 1440 in Dalkeith, Midlothian, Scotland, United Kingdom; was buried in 1440 in Scotland, United Kingdom. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• FamilySearch ID: LZ6T-WZ8
• Name: James STEWART
• MilitaryService: Between 1406 and 1424; imprisoned in the Tower of London for 18 years.
• JAMES CAPTURED BY THE ENGLISH: 22 Mar 1406, English Channel, At Sea; Wanting him out of reach of his brother Robert, Duke of Albany, King Robert III sent his only remaining son James to safety in France, Unfortunately James was intercepted by the English and taken hostage by King Henry IV.
• TitleOfNobility: 1424; Knighthood
• Coronation: 24 May 1424, Scone, Perthshire, Scotland; King of Scotland
• Occupation: 1426, Midlothian, Scotland; Governor / Keeper of Edinburgh Castle
• Occupation: Bef Apr 1435; Master of the King's Household - James I of Scotland
• MilitaryService: 21 Feb 1437, Perthshire, Scotland; murdered by his uncle Walter, Earl of Athol, at Friars Preachers Monastery

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James I Stewart, King of Scotland was born on 25 July 1394 at Dunfermline Palace, Dunfermline, Fife, ScotlandG.1 He was the son of Robert III Stewart, King of Scotland and Annabel Drummond.2 He married Lady Joan Beaufort, daughter of John de Beaufort, 1st Earl of Somerset and Lady Margaret de Holand, on 2 February 1423/24 at Priory Church, St. Mary Overy, Southwark, London, EnglandG.1 He died on 21 February 1436/37 at age 42 at Monastry of the Friars Preachers, Perth, Perthshire, ScotlandG, murdered by his uncle, Walter Stuart, Earl of Atholl.3 He was buried at Perth, Perthshire, ScotlandG.3
He was created Earl of Carrick on 10 December 1404, although never designated as such.1 He was created Duke of Rothesay on 10 December 1404, although never designated as such.1 In 1406 he was taken prisoner by the English while sailing to France shortly before the death of his father. He was held for ransom, mainly in the Tower of London, until 5 April 1424. During his exile, Scotland has been governened by his uncle Robert, the Duke of Albany until his death (1420) and then by Robert's son, Murdoch. On the 25th May, 1425, James had his revenge when he executed Murdoch and two of his kinsmen outside Stirling Castle. He succeeded as the King James I of Scotland on 4 April 1406.1 He was crowned King of Scotland on 2 May 1424 at Scone Abbey, Scone, Perthshire, ScotlandG.1
Children of James I Stewart, King of Scotland and Lady Joan Beaufort

Margaret Stewart b. c 25 Dec 1424, d. 16 Aug 1444
Isabella Stewart+4 b. bt 1425 - 1427, d. 1494
Mary Stewart, Countess of Buchan5 b. a 1427, d. 20 Mar 1465
Eleanor Stewart b. 26 Oct 1427, d. 20 Nov 1480
Joan Stewart+6 b. c 1428, d. a 16 Oct 1486
Annabella Stewart+4 b. a 1428
James II Stewart, King of Scotland+ b. 16 Oct 1430, d. 3 Aug 1460
Alexander Stewart, Duke of Rothesay b. 16 Oct 1430, d. 1430
Citations

[S11] Alison Weir, Britain's Royal Families: The Complete Genealogy (London, U.K.: The Bodley Head, 1999), page 230. Hereinafter cited as Britain's Royal Families.
[S323] Sir James Balfour Paul, The Scots Peerage: founded on Wood's edition of Sir Robert Douglas's The Peerage of Scotland (Edinburgh, Scotland: David Douglas,

Scottish monarch. Son of Robert III and Annabella Drummond. He reigned 1406-1437, though from 1406 til 1424, he was imprisoned by the English. When his father sent him away as a child for his own protection, he was captured by the English and held in the Tower of London for 18 years. During his imprisonment, he fell in love with Joan Beaufort, and the two were married on February 2, 1424 in Southwark. They had 8 children together. James returned to Scotland to find his country in chaos. He was formally crowned on May 21, 1424 at Scone. He took immediate action to regain his authority and control, including executing the Albany family, his fiercest opponents. He ruled with a firm hand, achieving numerous legal and financial reforms, including remodeling the Scottish parliament after its English counterpart, and renewing the Auld Alliance with France. His actions, although very effective, upset many, namely the descendents of his grandfather, Robert II's second marriage (James was descended from the first marriage). Conflict arose between the two factions over who should be on the throne. The problems came to a head when James was murdered by his uncle Walter, Earl of Athol, at Friars Preachers Monastery in Perth. The king was 42. James was a handsome, accomplished man, being a poet, singer, and musician as well as a talented athlete, excelling at shotput and hammer throw.

James Stewart, the Black Knight of Lorn (m. 1439? 1445), James I of Scotland (m. 1424) Spouse of Joan Beaufort, Queen of Scots.

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James Stewart, I
Also Known As: "James l King of Scotland", "Seumas I Sti?bhairt", "Seumas I mac Roibairt", "Ard Righ Albainn", "Jacobus [Primus]", "Rex Scotiae", "Jacobum regem", "Rey James I de Escocia", "James I of Scotland", ""Black Knight of Lorn"", "King James I of Scotland", "The Black Knight"
Birthdate: July 25, 1394
Birthplace: Dunfermline Palace, Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland
Death: February 21, 1437 (42)
Monastery of the Friars Preachers, Perth, Perthshire, Scotland (Assassinated )
Place of Burial: Perth Abbey, Perth, Perth and Kinross, Scotland
Immediate Family:
Son of Robert III, King of Scots and Annabella Drummond, Queen Consort of Scots
Husband of Joan Beaufort, Queen of Scots
Father of Margaret of Scotland, Dauphine de France; Isabella of Scotland, Duchess of Brittany; Eleanor Stewart; Joan of Scotland, Countess of Morton; Mary Stewart, Countess of Buchan; Alexander Stewart, Duke of Rothesay; James II, king of Scots and Annabella of Scotland ? less
Brother of Margaret Stewart, Lady of Galloway; David Stewart, Duke of Rothesay; Elizabeth Stewart, Princess of Scotland; Mary of Scotland, Countess of Angus; Robert Stewart, Prince of Scotland and 1 other
Half brother of Sir John Stewart, of Blackhall & Ardgowan and James Stewart of Killbride


Occupation: King of Scots, 35th King of Scots, King of Scotland

Scottish monarch. Son of Robert III and Annabella Drummond. He reigned 1406-1437, though from 1406 til 1424, he was king in name only. When his father sent him away as a child for his own protection, he was captured by the English and held in the Tower of London for 18 years. During his imprisonment, he fell in love with Joan Beaufort, and the two were married on February 2, 1424 in Southwark. They had 8 children together. James returned to Scotland to find his country in chaos. He was formally crowned on May 21, 1424 at Scone. He took immediate action to regain his authority and control, including executing the Albany family, his fiercest opponents. He ruled with a firm hand, achieving numerous legal and financial reforms, including remodeling the Scottish parliament after its English counterpart, and renewing the Auld Alliance with France. His actions, although very effective, upset many, namely the descendents of his grandfather, Robert II's second marriage (James was descended from the first marriage). Conflict arose between the two factions over who should be on the throne. The problems came to a head when James was murdered by his uncle Walter, Earl of Athol, at Friars Preachers Monastery in Perth. The king was 42. James was a handsome, accomplished man, being a poet, singer, and musician as well as a talented athlete, excelling at shotput and hammer throw.

James married Joan BEAUFORT, Queen Consort of Scotland on 2 Feb 1424 in St. Mary, Overy, Southwark, Surrey, London, England. Joan (daughter of John DE BEAUFORT, 1st Earl of Somerset and Margaret HOLLAND, Duchess of Clarence) was born on 27 Dec 1407 in Palace of Westminster, Westminster, Middlesex, England; died on 15 Jul 1445 in Dunbar Castle, Dunbar, Haddingtonshire, Scotland; was buried on 22 Nov 1445 in Carthusian Monastery, Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Elizabeth married Robert Of Mar ERSKINE after 20 Dec 1400. Robert (son of Sir Thomas ERSKINE and Janet KEITH) was born in 1368; died in 1452. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Name: Jill DOUGLAS
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Egidia married Earl Henry SINCLAIR, Of Or on 17 Nov 1407 in Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. Henry (son of Henry SINCLAIR and Jean HALYBURTON) was born on 24 May 1373 in Orkney Islands, Orkney, Scotland; died on 1 Feb 1421 in Orkney Islands, Orkney, Scotland; was buried in Roslin, Midlothian, Scotland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Name: William DOUGLASS

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• TitleOfNobility: ; King of the Hebrides
• Name: Alexander MACDONALD
• TitleOfNobility: Between 1423 and 1449; 9th Lord of the Isles of Islay
• TitleOfNobility: Between 1437 and 1449; 10th Earl of Ross
• Occupation: Between 1439 and 1449; Justicar of Scotland

Notes:

Alexander was the great grandson of King Robert II of Scotland and inherited his father Domhnall's alliance with King James I of Scotland against the power of the Albany Stewarts, who by the time James returned to Scotland from English captivity in 1424 ruled more of Scotland than King James could. By 1425 James had decided to destroy the Albany Stewarts once and for all. In May of this year, Alexander attended the Stirling parliament, and sat on the jury of 21 knights and peers which ordered the execution of Murdoch (Muireadhach), Duke of Albany, along with his son Alexander and his ally Donnchadh, Earl of Lennox.[2]

However, the destruction of the Albany Stewarts removed the main reason for the co-operation between the King and the Lord of the Isles.[3] It is possible that, as Michael Brown believes, James acknowledged Alexander's control of the earldom of Ross as a reward for his support against Albany, as in 1426 Alexander used the style "Master of the Earldom of Ross".[4] However, Richard Oram takes a different view, and sees Alexander's adoption of this title and occupation of much of the earldom as a provocation towards James, since it had passed to him after the death of John Stewart, Earl of Buchan and Ross in 1424, and James was legally entitled the hold the earldom. Alexander's use of this title, if it were provocation, would have been compounded in the king's mind by the fact that Alexander's uncle John M?r MacDonald was harbouring and protecting James M?r (or James the Fat), the son of Duke Murdoch, while James M?r was claiming James' throne.[5]

Captivity

Inverness Castle, the location of Alexander's first captivity. Although the modern castle is not medieval, the site is.
At any rate, the king had certainly adopted a more hostile attitude towards Alexander. In 1428, James travelled into the north of Scotland both to assert his authority in Ross and to bring order to the north. James requested a meeting with Alexander, and in August Alexander travelled in good faith to meet James at Inverness, where James was holding court. James however, in an act typical of his kingship, imprisoned Alexander, his mother Mariota (by whose lineage Alexander claimed Ross) and around fifty of his followers, including his uncle and heir-designate John M?r, in the tower of Inverness Castle. Included among the other prisoners were Alexander's most important Ross allies; men such as Aonghas Dubh MacAoidh, the chief of the MacKays of Strathnaver, a man who was reputed to have a warband 4000 strong; a prisoner also was Aonghas' son Niall ?g, the husband of the daughter of the head of the Foulis Munro kindred of Easter Ross, one of Ross' most important families. The head of the Munros himself, George Munro, may also have been arrested, but if he was he was quickly released. William Leslie and John de Ross of Balnagown, two important landowners and kinsmen of Mariota, were also imprisoned, as were the heads of the Wester Ross Lochalsh MacMhathain (Matheson) and the Kintail MacChoinnich (MacKenzie) kindreds. Most of these men, including John M?r, seem to have been released within a short time, although James took a few back to the south with him.[6]

According to Michael Brown and the 17th century History of the MacDonalds, James attempted to do a deal with John M?r, probably offering him the Lordship of the Isles, to which he was heir and for which he had revolted against his brother Domhnall decades before. John however refused to negotiate until Alexander was released. Furthermore, King James' plans met disaster when his messenger James Campbell attempted to arrest "Johannis de Insulis" and killed him in the attempt. King James tried to distance himself from the killing, and had Campbell hanged. Before the end of 1428. Alexander was released on a promise of good behaviour.[7]

War against the King

Oil-painting of James I, King of Scots (1406/24-1437).
Almost as soon as he was released, Alexander was at war with the king. Domhnall Ballach ("the Freckled"), son of his uncle John M?r, may have been seeking revenge for his father's death, and if this was the case, he was supported by his other uncle Alasdair Carrach ("the Curly"), Lord of Lochaber. Together, these two men, the two most important nobles in the lordship, probably helped pressure Alexander into war. In Spring 1429, Alexander's forces advanced on Inverness. Although Maol Choluim Mac an T?isich ("Malcolm MacKintosh"), head of Clan Chattan and custodian of the castle, managed to hold Alexander off, Alexander was still able to burn down the burgh. Alexander, meanwhile, was planning to support James M?r, son of Duke Murdoch, in his claim on the Scottish throne. James M?r had become a serious threat to King James, not merely because was he likely to have the support of Murdoch's former vassals in Lennox, Menteith and Fife, but also because he had obtained the backing of the King of England, who was angry that King James was ignoring his superior status and the terms of his release from captivity in England several years before. Now James M?r had the support of Alexander too.[8]

At this point, however, James was saved by the sudden death of his rival. As the Annals of the Four Masters reports:

Semus Stiuard Mac R?gh Alban, & rioghdhamhna Alban beos iarna indarbadh a h-Albain i n-Erinn do ?cc, iar t-techt loingis ? fheraibh Alban for a chend dia R?oghadh.[9]James Stuart, son of the King of Scotland, and Roydamna of Scotland, who had been banished from Scotland to Ireland, died, after the arrival of a fleet from the men of Scotland to convey him home, that he might be made king.[10]
In the summer, King James raised a large army and after a swift march north through Atholl and Badenoch, the royal army encountered Alexander somewhere around the borders of Lochaber and Badenoch. Although according to Walter Bower Alexander had 10,000 men, when the royal standard was unfurled the Chattan and Cameron kindreds switched over to the King. In the following engagement Alexander was defeated. Although Alexander got away, the king capitalized on his victory by marching further north and seizing the castles of Urquhart and Dingwall. The king now sought Alexander's capture, and sent an expedition armed with artillery into the Hebrides. Alexander, who had probably fled to Islay, found himself in a very difficult position, and on 27 August 1429 surrendered to King James at Holyrood Abbey, near the burgh of Edinburgh. King James was persuaded by his magnates to give Alexander grace, and sent him to Tantallon Castle under the custody of William Douglas, 2nd Earl of Angus, King James' nephew.[11]

Alexander married Elizabeth SETON,, Countess of Huntly in 1425 in Clackmannanshire, Scotland. Elizabeth was born in 1405 in Huntly Castle, Strathbogie, Aberdeenshire, Scotland; died in 1449 in Huntly, Aberdeenshire, Scotland; was buried in 1449 in Scotland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Biography of Agnes MacDonald
Agnes MacDonald
Birth date: 1410
Birthplace: Dingwall, Cromarty, Scotland
Death: Died 1463 in Dunstaffnage, Scotland
Father Donald MacDonald, of Harlaw, 8th Lord of the Isles
Mother Mariota Leslie, Countess of Ross
Wife of John Stewart, 2nd Lord Lorn
Children
Janet Stewart of Lorn & Innermeath; Marion Stewart, Menteith and daughter of John Stewart of Lorn
Sister of Alexander MacDonald, 9th Lord of the Isles, 12th Earl of Ross; Gilbert MacAlistair; Mariota MacDonald, of the Isles and Angus MacDonald
Sources
http://www.geni.com/people/Agnes-MacDonald/6000000006714374442
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When Agnes MacDonald was born in 1410,Dingwall, Cromarty, Scotland,her father, Donald, was 46, and her mother, Mariota, was 47. She had one daughter with John Stewart in 1437. She died in 1463 in Dunstaffnage, Scotland at the age of 53.

Family/Spouse: John STEWART, 2nd Lord of Lorne. John (son of Sir Robert STEWART, of Innermeath and Lorn, 1st Lord and Lady Joan STEWART, Of Albany) was born in 1397 in Glenorchy, Argyll, Scotland; died on 20 Dec 1463 in Dunstaffnage Castle, Oban, Scotland; was buried in 1463 in Dunkeld, Perthshire, Scotland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Name: Margaret MACDONALD

Family/Spouse: Dugald Mor CAMPBELL, 1st. Captain of Dunstaffnage. Dugald was born in 1378 in Lochawe, Argyll, Scotland; died on 11 Jan 1434 in Argyll, Scotland; was buried in 1434 in Argyll, Scotland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• TitleOfNobility: ; Countess of Buchan
• TitleOfNobility: ; Countess of Ross
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Elizabeth married William SINCLAIR about 1431 in Scotland. William (son of Earl Henry SINCLAIR, Of Or and Egidia (Jill) DOUGLAS) was born in 1408 in Roslin, Midlothian, Scotland; died on 29 Mar 1484 in Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland; was buried in Kirkcaldy Old Kirk Churchyard, Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Title of Nobility: ; Baron of Castle Loch Doon
• Title of Nobility: ; Lord of Kennedy
• Occupation: ; Created 1st Lord Kennedy 20th March 1457/58, Keeper of the Castle of Lochdoun, Constable of Stirling Castle, Regent of Scotland, Laird of Dunure, office of Constable of Stirling Castle 1466, Lord, Regent
• Occupation: ; Constable of Stirling Castle
• Occupation: ; Regent of James III
• TitleOfNobility: 12 Oct 1454; Privy Counselor of Scotland to King James III of Scotland, 2nd Lord Kennedy

Gilbert married Lady Catherine MAXWELL on 7 Mar 1426 in Drumlanrig Castle, Dumfries-shire, Scotland. Lady (daughter of Herbert MAXWELL, First Lord Maxwell and Lady Janet HERRIES) was born in 1408 in Calderwood, Lanarkshire, Scotland; died in 1484 in Dunure, Ayrshire, Scotland; was buried in 1484 in Scotland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• TitleOfNobility: ; 2nd Lord of Dalkeith
• He resigend his lands in favour of his son.: 8 Sep 1456

James married Lady Elizabeth GIFFORD in 1417 in Morton, Dumfries-shire, , Scotland. Elizabeth (daughter of James GIFFORD and Beatrice GIFFORD) was born in 1392 in Newton Village, Midlothian, Scotland; was christened in 1392 in Dalkeith, Midlothian, Scotland; died on 8 Sep 1456 in Dalkeith, Midlothian, Scotland; was buried in Dalkeith, Midlothian, Scotland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• TitleOfNobility: ; Countess of Huntly
• TitleOfNobility: ; Princess of Scotland, Countess of Huntley
• _UID: 09EDDB765DA14D56936BE2D053097268CE4E

Notes:

Annabella Stewart (ca. 1436 ? 1509) was the youngest daughter of King James I and Joan Beaufort.

Annabella was presumably named after her father's mother, Annabella Drummond. She was the youngest of the six daughters and two sons of James I and Joan Beaufort. Her sisters were Margaret, Isabella, Eleanor, Mary and Joan, and her brothers were James II of Scotland and his twin brother Alexander, who died in infancy.

Her first husband was Louis of Savoy, Count of Geneva whom she married in 1447 on either 1 April or 14 December. However, in the year 1458 they separated, divorced and the marriage was annulled upon the request of Charles VII of France.

Annabella returned to Scotland and married George Gordon, 2nd Earl of Huntly. Notwithstanding this alliance, her ill fate pursued her, and she was legally divorced from her second husband by a sentence pronounced in the year 1471 which proceeded on the ground of consanguinity with his first wife, Elizabeth Dunbar, 8th Countess of Murray, as the two ladies were within the third and fourth degrees of relation.

Annabella and her second husband, the Earl of Huntly had issue:
?Isabella (d. 1485), wife of William Hay, 3rd Earl of Errol (d. 1507).
?Alexander (d. 1523), 3rd Earl of Huntly (as established in The Dictionary of National Biography, 1921? 22).

She was thought also to have been mother to another four of his children, however this has not been proved nor disproved.
Lord Byron claimed descent from Princess Annabella through his mother, Catherine, daughter of George Gordon, 12th Lord of Gight. Byron wrote: "By her [Annabella] he [the 2nd Earl of Huntly] left four sons: the third, Sir William Gordon, I have the honour to claim as one of my progenitors."

Source: Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annabella_of_Scotland
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Additional Info. on Princess Annabella of Scotland:

Annabella of Scotland (ca 1433 ? after 1471) was the youngest daughter of King James I and Joan Beaufort.

First marriage:

Her first husband was Louis of Savoy, Count of Geneva whom she married in 1447 on either April 1 or December 14. However, in the year 1458 they separated, divorced and the marriage was annulled upon the request of Charles VII of France.

Second marriage:

Annabella returned to Scotland and married George Gordon, 2nd Earl of Huntly. Notwithstanding this alliance, her ill fate pursued her, and she was legally divorced from her second husband by a sentence pronounced in the year 1471 which proceeded on the ground of consanguinity with his first wife, Elizabeth Dunbar, 8th Countess of Murray, as the two ladies were within the third and fourth degrees of relation.

Children:

Annabella and her second husband, the Earl of Huntly had issue:

- Isabella (d.1485), wife of William Hay, 3rd Earl of Errol (d.1507).
- She was thought also to have been mother to another five of his children, however this is thought improbable.
[What is certain is that there were no sons.]

Comments from Douglas Hickling via Rootsweb database:
"Probably the last and most authoritative word on Annabella's children as the Countess of Huntly belongs to Alison Weir in BRITAIN'S ROYAL FAMILIES, at 232. She regards Isabel as the only probable child of Annabella's marriage to the earl. She says that "Annabella was also possibly, but improbably," the mother of Janet, Elizabeth, Margaret, and Agnes. Weir shows no sons resulting from this marriage, and says that it is "highly improbable" that Alexander, 3rd Earl of Huntly, was her son. Obviously, if Alexander was not Annabella's child, then neither were the younger sons and daughters. Without mentioning him, Weir seems generally to agree with Ferrerius in identifying Annabella's children by the second earl. My own view is that, had Riddell not erroneously copied the date of the 1466 writ as 1476 or had Elizabeth Hay been the royal princess instead of Annabella, the Gordon family historians would have continued to follow Ferrerius."

Links
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Source: Gordon Papers on=Line

Annabella married Sir George GORDON, Of Huntly before 10 Mar 1460 in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. George (son of Sir Alexander SETON, 1st Earl of Huntly, Lord of Gordon and Badenoch and Elizabeth CRICHTON) was born on 1 Jan 1430 in Huntly, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, United Kingdom; died on 30 Jan 1502 in Stirling, Stirlingshire, Scotland; was buried in 1503 in Chancel of the Abbey of Cambuskenneth Church, Cambuskenneth, Stirlingshire, Scotland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Family/Spouse: Patrick GRAHAM. Patrick (son of Alexander GRAEME) was born in 1417 in Kincardine, Angusshire, Scotland; died on 24 Jun 1466 in Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland; was buried in 1466 in Scotland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Clan: ; Clan Sinclair
• FamilySearch ID: LCCN-H49
• Name: William SINCLAIR
• _UID: A16D21FEEAE945E29CD2A7FC7AB46F21F63D
• MilitaryService: 1436, Scotland; Sinclair was high admiral of Scotland
• TitleOfNobility: Between 1454 and 1456, Scotland; Chancellor of Scotland
• TitleOfNobility: 16 Sep 1476, Fife, Scotland; Feudal Baron of Ravenscraig and Dysart

William married Elizabeth DOUGLAS about 1431 in Scotland. Elizabeth (daughter of Archibald DOUGLAS, 4th Earl of Douglas and Lady Margaret STEWART) was born in 1401 in Douglas, Lanarkshire, Scotland; died in 1451 in Traquair, Scottish Borders, Scotland, United Kingdom; was buried in 1451 in Traquair, Scottish Borders, Scotland, United Kingdom. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

William married Marjory SUTHERLAND before 15 Nov 1456. Marjory was born in 1424 in Dunbeath Castle, Caithness, Scotland; died on 29 Apr 1480 in Dunbeath Castle, Caithness, Scotland; was buried in Dunkeld Cathedral Graveyard, Dunkeld, Perth and Kinross, Scotland, United Kingdom. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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