With merging appearing complete on the 27 duplicate King Robert II Stewart profiles (probably still a few strays out there) I thought it was time to look at his children. As of now there are 172 of them! Obviously there is also a lot of duplication however he was married twice and fathered several illegitimate children as well. To complicate matters there are a number of children bearing the same name: John = 4 (one whom became King Robert III), Walter = 3 by that name, & Alexander = 3 by that name!
We will have to be extra careful with the complicated merges of this family.
I took the following information from:
Scottish kings - a revised chronology of Scottish history, 1005-1625. Published 1899 by D. Douglas in Edinburgh http://www.archive.org/stream/scottishkingsre00dunbuoft#page/n7/mode/2up
King Robert the Second had by his first wife, Elisabeth Mure, four sons and five daughters:
1. John, earl of Carrick, King of Scots as Robert III. from 19th April 1390 to 4th April 1406.
2. Walter, married (as her fourth husband) Isabella, countess of Fife, and seems to have died about 1362.
3. Robert, duke of Albany, 'earl of Fyff and of Menteth, brother-german of My Lord the King of Scotland,' Governor of the Kingdom from ist December 1388 until his death at Stirling, 3rd September 1419, was buried at Dunfermline. He married first, Margaret, countess of Menteth, by whom he had an only son and several daughters.
4. Alexander, 'The Wolf of Badenoch,' earl of Buchan and Ross, burned Torres in May 1390, and burned Elgin on the 17th June 1390. He died 24th July 1394, and was buried in the choir of the Cathedral at Dunkeld. By his wife Euphemia, countess of Eoss, he left no issue.
5. Margaret, married, as his second wife, to John, lord of the Isles; Papal dispensation, 1 4th June 1350. [In the dispensation for the marriage of her sister Isabella, with James, 2nd earl of Douglas, Isabella is called 'Margaret' by mistake.]
6. Marjorie, married to John of Dunbar, brother to George of Dunbar, earl of March; Papal dispensation, nth July 1370. John of Dunbar and his wife were created earl and countess of Moray, in parliament at Scone, gth March 1371-2. The earl, wounded in a tournament in London, died at York in 1390, and his widow held the earldom of Moray jointly with her elder son, Thomas of Dunbar.
7. Elisabeth, married to Thomas Hay, Constable of Scotland.
8. Isabella, married first [Papal dispensation, 24th September 137 1] to James, 2nd earl of Douglas, who was killed at Otterburn, 1 9th August 1388 married secondly to Sir John Edmonston.
9. Jean, married first to Sir John Keith ; secondly to John Lyon ; and thirdly to Sir James Sandilands of Calder.
King Robert the Second had by his second wife, Euphemia of Ross, widow of John Ranulph, 3rd earl of Moray, two sons and two daughters :
10. David, earl palatine of Strathern and earl of Caithness, left an only daughter, and died between 23rd February 1381-2 and 1389.
11. Walter, lord of Buchan, earl of Caithness and earl of Athol, married the daughter and heir of Sir David de Berkley ; he was beheaded at Stirling, as one of the assassins of his nephew, King James L, 3ist March 1437. He left two sons, James and Alan .
12 Egidia, married to Sir William Douglas of Nithsdale.
13. Katherine [called also ' Jean ' and ' Elisabeth ' by different genealogists], married to Sir David Lindesay, 1st earl of Crawford.
King Robert the Second had a number of illegitimate children, of whom eight sons appear in the records:
(a) John Stewart, heritable sheriff of Bute.
(b) Thomas Stewart, archdeacon of St. Andrews.
(c) Alexander Stewart, canon of Glasgow.
(d) Sir John Stewart, of Dundonald, the red Stewart.
(e) Alexander Stewart, of Inverlunan, charter 3rd January 1377-8.
(f) James Stewart had a charter of the east half of Kinfauns, Rate, etc., I5th January 1 382-3.
(g) Sir John Stewart, of Cairdney.
(k) Walter Stewart.
