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Alexander II King of Scotland

Male 1198 - 1249  (50 years)


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  • Name Alexander II King of Scotland  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
    Born 24 Aug 1198  Haddington, East Lothian, Scotland Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Occupation 4 Mar 1212 
    Knighted by King John of England 
    Occupation 1214 
    King of Scotland 
    Occupation 6 Dec 1214 
    Enthroned in Scone Abbey, Perthshire, Scotland, succeeding his father, William the Lion 
    Occupation 1215 
    Quelled a revolt by the MacWilliam and MacHeth clans in Moray and Angus 
    Occupation 1216 
    Managed to bring Argyll under effective control of the Scottish crown for the first time 
    Occupation 1222 
    Took a terrible vengeance for the murder of Adam, Bishop of Caithness by hanging four hundred of the inhabitants 
    Occupation Apr 1236 
    Compelled Thomas, illegitimate son of Alan of Galloway, and Hugh de Lacy, who was assisting Thomas' rebellion, to come to terms 
    Occupation 1237 
    Concluded the Treaty of York with Henry III 
    Occupation 6 Jul 1249 
    Mounted a military campaign in the Isles to regain control of the Hebrides from Norway 
    Died 6 Jul 1249  Isle of Kerrara, Bay of Oban, Scotland Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Cause: Sickened of fever and died 
    Buried Melrose Abbey, Roxburghshire, Scotland Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I4576  Godbout
    Last Modified 18 Apr 2017 

    Father William I King of Scotland,   b. 1143, Scotland Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 4 Dec 1214, Sterling, Stirlingshire, Scotland Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 71 years) 
    Mother Ermengarde de Beaumont Queen of Scotland,   b. Abt 1165, Scotland Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 4 Feb 1233, Scotland Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 68 years) 
    Married 5 Sep 1186  Woodstock Palace, Oxfordshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F2312  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Joan Plantagenêt of England,   b. 22 Jul 1210, Coucy (ar. Laon), Aisne, Picardie, France Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 4 Mar 1238, Aberconwy, Arllechwedd Isaf, Caernarvonshire, Wales Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 27 years) 
    Marriage Contract 19 Jun 1221 
    Married 21 Jun 1221  York Minster, Yorkshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Last Modified 18 Apr 2017 
    Family ID F2313  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 2 Marie de Coucy,   b. Abt 1218, Boves, Somme, Picardie, France Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Abt 1251, Brienne-le-Château (ar. Bar-sur-Aube), Aube, Champagne-Ardenne, France Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 33 years) 
    Married 15 May 1239  Picardie, France Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
     1. Alexander III King of Scotland,   b. 4 Sep 1241, Roxburgh, Scotland Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 19 Mar 1286, Pettycur, Scotland Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 44 years)
    Last Modified 18 Apr 2017 
    Family ID F2314  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Sources 
    1. [S7] The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, George Edward Cokayne; Vicary Gibbs, H. A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand & Howard de Walden, editors, (Reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), Volume V, p. 737 (chart).

    2. [S728] A General and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerages of England, Ireland and Scotland, John Burke, Esq., (Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street, London, 1831), 221.

    3. [S633] Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700, Frederick Lewis Weis. Edited with additions and corrections by Walter Lee Sheppard, Jr.; assisted by David Faris, (Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 7th Edition, Baltimore, Maryland, 1992), 107:120-30.

    4. [S673] Histoire généalogique des maisons de Guînes, de Gand, et de Coucy, André du Chesne Tourangeau, (Sébastien Cramoisy, Paris, 1631), 232 & p. 254.

    5. [S682] Armorial Général, ou registres de la noblesse de France; Édition originale 1738-1768 et 7ème registre 1768-1873, Louis-Pierre d'Hozier et Antoine-Marie d'Hozier de Sérigny, (Éditions du Palais Royal, Paris, 1970), Registre cinquième, p. 414.

    6. [S628] Dictionnaire de la noblesse, seconde et troisième éditions, François-Alexandre Aubert de La Chenaye-Desbois, (La Veuve Duchesne, libraire, Antoine Boudet, l'auteur, rue Saint-André-des-Arcs, Schlésinger frères, Paris, 1770-1778), Tome 3, p. 202; Tome 5, p. 184 & Tome 10, p. 419.