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Alexander Stewart, Earl of Buchan, called the Wolf of Badenoch (1343 – July 1394), was a Scottish royal prince, the third son of King Robert II of Scotland by his first wife Elizabeth Mure. He was Justiciar of Scotia and held large territories in the north of Scotland.
The Mormaer ( / mɔːrˈmɛər /) or Earl of Buchan ( / ˈbʌxən /) was originally the provincial ruler of the medieval province of Buchan. Buchan was the first Mormaerdom in the High Medieval Kingdom of the Scots to pass into the hands of a non-Scottish family in the male line.
Sep 2, 2022 · Alexander Stewart, Alasdair Mór mac an Rígh, and called the Wolf of Badenoch (1343 – 20 June 1405), [date on memorial is 24 July 1394] was the fourth son of King Robert II of Scotland and also the youngest by his first wife, Elizabeth Mure of Rowallan. He was the first Earl of Buchan since John Comyn, from 1382 until his death.
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Alexander Stewart, 2nd Earl of Buchan (died 1505) was the only son of James Stewart, 1st Earl of Buchan, and Margaret Ogilvy. Alexander succeeded to the Earldom and the Barony of Kingedward and other lands, probably in 1499, as he got sasine of the Earldom on 23 January 1499/1500.
When Alexander Stewart 1st Earl of Buchan was born on 14 June 1343, in Kyle, Ayrshire, Scotland, his father, Robert II King of Scotland, was 27 and his mother, Elizabeth Mure of Rowallan, was 23. He married Mariota Athyn Mackay in 1368, in Sutherland, Scotland.
The Oxford Companion to British History. Buchan, Alexander Stewart, 1st earl of [S] (d. c.1406). Lord of Badenoch. The fourth son of Robert II, he was made a justiciar in northern Scotland (1372), in which post he earned his nickname of ‘Wolf of Badenoch’. He became earl of Buchan in 1382 as a result of his marriage to Euphemia, countess of Ross.
