Stewart alexander biography

15th-century Scottish nobleman

Alexander Stewart (c.

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Biography

He was an illegitimate son of Alexander Stewart, Earl of Buchan, known as the Wolf of Badenoch, and probably Mairead inghean Eachainn.^[2][3]

Alexander held the Earldom of Mar and the Lordship of the Gariochjure uxoris, from in right of his first wife Isabel Douglas, Countess of Mar (died ).

According to many sources, Alexander acquired the title by murder of Isabel's husband, Sir Malcolm Drummand ^[4] Alexander's marriage to Isabel followed his capture of Kildrummy Castle, and Isabel with it, in after having attacked her husband, Sir Malcolm Drummond, brother-in-law of King Robert III, holding Sir Malcolm captive whe