Holinshed's Chronicles

Robert Stewart, Duke of Albany

Also known as: Robert duke of Albanie · Family: Scotland · Role: governor · First appears: Henry IV 8

Life events

  • c. 1400 · Robert Stewart's promised relief failed, and Henry IV lifted the siege without battle.(Henry IV 8 · 📍 Edenburgh)
    • With: Henry IV
    • “But king Henrie staied six daies, and sixtéene too, without hearing any word of the gouernors comming. Then the winter beginning to wax cold, and foule weather still increasing, caused the king to breake vp his siege, and so returned without battell or skirmish offered.”

Henry IV 8

  • enemies with Henry IV “Robert duke of Albanie, that was appointed gouernour of the realme, because the king was sicke and not méet to rule, sent an herald vnto king Henrie, promising him battell within six daies at the furthest, if he would so long tarrie”

Also listed in Scotland — Minor Figures

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