James III Stewart King of Scotland

1451 - 1488  (36 years)

• Name	James III Stewart King of Scotland  [1, 2]
  Occupation	1451
  	4th Duke of Rothesay
  Born	10 Jul 1451	Stirling, Scotland
  Gender	Male
  Occupation	1460
  	His mother acted as his Regent during the early years of his reign
  Occupation	1460
  	King of Scotland
  Occupation	3 Aug 1460
  	Succeeded his father on the throne of Scotland
  Occupation	10 Aug 1460
  	Crowned King of Scotland at Kelso Abbey
  Occupation	1463
  	Found himself the focus of rival factions of Scottish nobles seeking to gain power for themselves
  Occupation	1468
  	Took the reins of power for himself
  Occupation	1482
  	Scottish nobles rebelled at Lauder, killed many of James' cronies and imprisoned him in Edinburgh Castle
  Military	11 Jun 1488
  	Defeated by his nobles at the Battle of Sauchieburn and forced to flee from the field (falling from his horse)
  Died	11 Jun 1488	Sauchieburn, Stirling, Scotland
  	Cause: Stabbed to death in a nearby cottage
  Buried	Cambuskenneth Abbey (Augustinian monastery), Stirling, Scotland
  Person ID	I4661	Godbout
  Last Modified	18 Apr 2017

  
  

  Father	James II Stewart King of Scotland,   b. 16 Oct 1430, Holyrood Abbey, Edinburgh, Mid-Lothian, Scotland ,   d. 3 Aug 1460, Roxburgh Castle, Kelso, Scotland  (Age 29 years)
  Mother	Maria d'Egmont,   b. 1433, Grave, Brabant, Nederland ,   d. 16 Nov 1463, Edinburgh, Mid-Lothian, Scotland  (Age 30 years)
  Married	3 Jul 1449	Holyrood Abbey, Edinburgh, Mid-Lothian, Scotland
  Family ID	F2363	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Margarethe Queen of Scotland,   b. 23 Jun 1456, Kenhavn, Denmark ,   d. 14 Jul 1486, Stirling Castle, Scotland  (Age 30 years)
  Married	13 Jul 1469	Holyrood Abbey, Edinburgh, Mid-Lothian, Scotland
  Children	1. James IV Stewart King of Scotland,   b. 17 Mar 1473, Edinburgh, Mid-Lothian, Scotland ,   d. 9 Sep 1513, Battle of Flodden Field, Branxton, Northumberland, England  (Age 40 years)
  Last Modified	18 Apr 2017
  Family ID	F2360	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Sources

  [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 XI, p. 209. [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), 225:252-36.