The KINGS of SCOTLAND (16)

3. Robert, Duke of Albany. (See that title.)
4. Alexander, Earl of Buchan. (See that title.)
5. Margaret, married (dispensation by Pope Clement vi.
dated at Avignon 18 Kal. July 1350, as they were
related in the third and fourth degrees of affinity)
John, Lord of the Isles.*
6. Marjorie, married (dispensation by Pope Urban v., 11
July 1371) to John, brother of George of Dunbar, Earl
of March. They were created Earl and Countess of
Moray, March 1371-2. (See that title.)
7. Elisabeth, married to Thomas Hay, Constable of
Scotland.
8. Isabella, was married first (by dispensation 24 September
1371), to James, Earl of Douglas; second, between
1388 and 1390, to Sir John Edmonstone, ancestor of
the family of Duntreath.**
9. Jean, was married first, to Sir John Keith, eldest son of
the Marischal ; second, to Sir John Lyon, by whom she
became ancestress of the Earls of Strathmore ;*** and
third, to Sir James Sandilands of Calder, and became
ancestress of the Lords Torphichen. (See these
titles.)

King Robert II. married secondly, Euphemia, daughter
of Hugh, Earl of Ross, and widow of John Randolph, third
Earl of Moray (dispensation by Pope Innocent vi., 2 May
1355). By her he had :
10. David, Earl of Strathearn. (See that title.)
11. Walter, Lord of Brechin and Earl of Atholl. (See
that title.)
12. Egidia,' a werey beautifull lady,' who in 1387 was
married to Sir William Douglas of Nithsdale with
issue.*****(See titles Douglas and Orkney.)
13. Jean (Katherine ****** or Elizabeth), married about 1380 to
Sir David Lindsay of Glenesk, first Earl of Crawford.


* Calendar of Papal Registers, Letters, iii. 381.
** Douglas Book, i. 273.
*** The Red Book of Menteith, 81 ; Hist. Com. Report,
xiv., Ap. iii. p. 180.
**** Balfour's MSS.
***** The Douglas Book, i.355.
****** Dr. Burnett
 mentions in his Preface to the Exchequer Rolls, iv. p. clxvi, a Lady
Catherine Logan, wife of Sir Robert Logan of Restalrig, whom he
presumes to have been a daughter of Robert III., on the authority of
 a charter quoted by Duncan Stewart, granted by Robert in.,
 'dilecto fratri suo Roberto Logane,militi,' 5 Nov. 1394.
(Reg. Mag. Sig., 19 Jan. 1478-9).

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Ruthvens, but this is founded on a mistaken reading
of the Scone charter referred to above.

ALEXANDER, fourth High Stewart, designated of
Dundonald,was born in 1214, and in early life
joined the Crusaders. In 1255 he appears as one
of the Regents of Scotland during the minority of
Alexander III. In 1263 he commanded the right
 wing of the Scots army at Largs, when the Norsemen
 under Haco were completely routed.

He played a prominent part in other matters during the
reign of Alexander III., and died in 1283, leaving two sons
and a daughter. His wife is said to have been Jean,
daughter of James, Lord of Bute.

1. JAMES, his successor.
2. Sir John, who married Margaret, daughter and heiress
of Sir Alexander de Bonkyl in Berwickshire ; fell at
the battle of Falkirk, leaving a numerous family of
sons and one daughter :
(1) Sir Alexander, ancestor of the Stewarts, Earls of Angus.
(2) Sir Alan, ancestor of the Stewarts of Darnley, Earls of
Lennox.
(3) Sir Walter, ancestor of the Stewarts of Garlies, Earls of
Galloway, and the Lords Blantyre.
(4) Sir James, ancestor of the Stewarts Lords of Lorn, the Earls
of Atholl, Buchan, and Traquair, and the Stewarts of Appin
and Grandtully.
(5) Sir John of Daldar, died s. p.
(6) Sir Hugh, and
(7) Sir Robert are also said to have been sons, but of their
descendants nothing is certainly known.
(8) Isabel, married to Thomas Randolph, Earl of Moray.

3. Elizabeth, married to Sir William Douglas of that Ilk,
called ' Le Hardi,' and was the mother of the
' Good Sir James ' Douglas.


JAMES, fifth High Stewart, was born about 1243. He
was one of the six guardians appointed in 1286 on the
death of Alexander III., and in 1292 was one of the auditors
appointed by Bruce to represent him in his claim for the
Crown of Scotland. He was in 1292 one of the leading men
who opposed the attempts of Edward I. to destroy the
 independence of Scotland, and was present with Wallace
 at the ............