Alexander Dunkeld (1264 - 1284)

Born 21 Jan 1264 in Jedburgh, Roxburghshire, Scotland

Ancestors

Husband of Marguerite Dampierre — married 15 Nov 1282 in Roxburgh, Roxburghshire, Scotland

Died 28 Jan 1284 at age 20 in Lindores Abbey, Fife, Scotland

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Biography

Birth

Alexander Dunkeld was born on 21 Jan 1263/4 at Jedburgh, Scotland, the son of Alexander III, King of Scots and his wife, Margaret Plantagenet, grandson of Henry III, King of England, Lord of Ireland, Duke of Aquitane and his wife, Eléonore de Provence, Queen consort of England, nephew of Edward I, King of England. ^[1][2][3]

On 15 Nov 1282, he married at Roxburgh, Scotland, Marguerite Dampierre van Vlaanderen, daughter of Guy de Dampiere, Count of Flanders, Marquis of Namur, and Isabelle de Luxembourg, daughter of Henry IV, Count of Luxembourgh and La Roche, Marquis of Arlon. There were no children. ^[1][3][4]

Death

He died at Lindores Abbey, Fife, Scotland on 17 (or 28) Jan 1283/4, "one week past his twentieth birthday" and was buried at Dunfermline Abbey, Fife, Scotland. ^[2][1][3]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} Richardson, Douglas,Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 5 vols., ed. Kimball G. Everingham (Salt Lake City: the author, 2013), vol. 4, 595.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} Barrow, G. W. S., A Kingdom in Crisis: Scotland and the Maid of Norway, The Scottish Historical Review 69, no. 188 (1990): 120–41, http://www.jstor.org/stable/25530459.
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2} Dunbar, Sir Archibald H. Scottish Kings: A Revised Chronology of Scottish History 1005-1625. Edinburgh: D. Douglas (1899), 94-102.
4. ↑ Richardson, Douglas,Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 5 vols., ed. Kimball G. Everingham (Salt Lake City: the author, 2013), vol. 3, 2.

See also:

• Wikipedia contributors, Alexander, Prince of Scotland, (Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, 2023) Alexander, Prince of Scotland.