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- John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute, KG, PC, FSA Scot (/ bjuːt /; 25 May 1713 – 10 March 1792), styled Lord Mount Stuart between 1713 and 1723, was a British nobleman who served as the Prime Minister of Great Britain from 1762 to 1763 under George III.
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Mother. Marie de Coucy. Alexander III (Scottish Gaelic: Alaxandair mac Alaxandair; Modern Gaelic: Alasdair mac Alasdair; 4 September 1241 – 19 March 1286) was King of Alba (Scotland) from 1249 until his death. He concluded the Treaty of Perth, by which Scotland acquired sovereignty over the Western Isles and the Isle of Man.
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Alexander II had married Joan, the sister of Henry III of England (r. 1216-1272 CE), but she died in 1238 CE, and the king had no heir. Alexander II married again, this time to Marie de Coucy, a French noblewoman, in May 1239 CE. The couple's only child was born on 4 September 1241 CE and named after his father. Prince Alexander was betrothed to Ma...
As he was still a minor, the boy-king Alexander was served by nobles eager to promote their own position and interests. The most intense rivalry was between the Comyns and the Durwards. The two family leaders, Walter Comyn and Alan Durward, squabbled over who should have knighted the king at his coronation, an action which implied the person carryi...
Alexander's father greatly consolidated the Crown's control over Scotland, subduing rebellions in the outer regions of his kingdom. There was still one thorn in Scotland's side, though, and a much more immediate threat to the kingdom than Henry III. The Outer Hebrides or Western Isles of Scotland had been in Norwegian hands since the 11th century C...
Tragically, on 19 March 1286 CE the king died, perhaps falling off a cliff at Kinghorn in Fife. It seems the king had simply ridden too close to the edge on a dark stormy night, and he fell to his death on the beach below or, as the contemporary sources state, he had been drinking rather too much of the Bordeaux wine he was known to be fond of and ...
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Sep 6, 2011 · Earl of Arran (1503) − created for James Hamilton, 2nd Lord Hamilton, the 3rd Earl was declared insane and forfeit by abdication. This was later reversed, allowing his nephew, James Hamilton, 2nd Marquess of Hamilton, to succeed.
William, the third Earl of Ross, became one of the most important Scottish nobles during the reign of King Alexander III. Together with other Scottish nobility, William vowed to maintain and defend Princess Margaret's title to the Crown of Scotland if Alexander III should die without a son.
Jan 14, 2024 · At the time of the seven- or eight-year-old Alexander III’s accession to the throne, the most powerful and influential figure within the Scottish court was probably Walter Comyn, Lord of Badenoch and through his wife, Earl of Menteith.
Alexander III of Scotland reigned from 1249 to 1286 CE. Succeeding his father Alexander II of Scotland (r. 1214-1249 CE) at the age of eight, the young king's early reign was blighted by rivalries between...
The peerage died out when George Keith, the 10th Earl, forfeited it by joining the Jacobite Rising of 1715. The role of the Marischal was to serve as custodian of the Royal Regalia of Scotland, and to protect the king's person when attending parliament.
