Alexander Stewart, Duke of Albany

Also known as: Alexander / Alexander duke of Albanie · Family: Scottish nobility · Role: brother of James III · First appears: Edward IV 36

Life events

• c. 1480 · Alexander Stewart, Duke of Albany was exiled to France and stayed with Edward IV while passing through England.(Edward IV 36 · 📍 France)
  • With: Edward IV
  • “Amongst whome Alexander duke of Albanie, brother to king Iames, being exiled into France, & passing through England, taried with K. Edward:”
• 1482 · England and Scotland agree to a temporary wartime truce and English occupation of Berwick.(Edward IV 38)
  • With: Richard III James III
  • “that an especiall abstinence of warre should be kept betwixt the realmes of England and Scotland, as well by sea as by land, to begin the eighth daie of September next comming, & to indure till the fourth daie of Nouember next following.”
• c. 1483 · Alexander Stewart, Duke of Albany released James III from captivity.(Edward IV 39)
  • With: James III
  • “Shortlie after Gartiers departing, the duke of Albanie, thinking to obteine againe the high fauour of the king his brother, deliuered him out of captiuitie and prison”
• c. 1483 · Alexander Stewart, Duke of Albany fled to France under threat of death from James III.(Edward IV 39 · 📍 France)
  • With: James III
  • “So that shortlie after in the kings presence he was in ieopardie of his life, and all vnprouided for dread of death, constrained to take a small balinger, and to saile into France”
• c. 1483 · Alexander Stewart, Duke of Albany was killed while jousting in France.(Edward IV 39 · 📍 France)
  • With: Louis XII
  • “where shortlie after riding by the men of armes, which incountered at the tilt, by Lewes then duke of Orleance, after French king, he was with mischarging of a speare by fortunes peruerse countenance pitifullie slaine and brought to death”

Edward IV 36

• siblings with James III “Amongst whome Alexander duke of Albanie, brother to king Iames, being exiled into France, & passing through England, taried with K. Edward:”
• with Edward IV (Alexander stayed with Edward IV and urged him to make war against James III.) “Amongst whome Alexander duke of Albanie, brother to king Iames, being exiled into France, & passing through England, taried with K. Edward: and vpon occasion mooued him to make warre against his brother, the said king Iames, for that he forgetting his oth, promise, and affinitie concluded with king Edward, caused his subiects to make roads and forraies into the English borders, spoiling, burning, and killing king Edwards liege people.”

Edward IV 38

• sworn: James III “contracted betwéene the duke of Glocester lieutenant generall for the king of England, & Alexander duke of Albanie lieutenant for Iames king of Scots”
• with Richard III (Correspondence concerning the siege and a wartime abstinence.) “The duke of Albanie wrote all this preparation to the duke of Glocester, requiring him to haue no mistrust in his dealings. The duke of Glocester wrote to him againe his mind verie roundlie, promising that he with his armie would defend the besiegers from all enimies that should attempt to trouble them, or else die in the quarell.”

Edward IV 39

• siblings with James III “Iames king of Scots, putting in obliuion that Alexander his brother was the onelie organ and instrument, by whome he obteined libertie & fréedome, seduced and led by vile and malicious persons, which maligned at the glorie and indifferent iustice of the duke of Albanie, imagined and compassed his death, and exiled him for euer.”
• enemies with James III “Iames king of Scots, putting in obliuion that Alexander his brother was the onelie organ and instrument, by whome he obteined libertie & fréedome, seduced and led by vile and malicious persons, which maligned at the glorie and indifferent iustice of the duke of Albanie, imagined and compassed his death, and exiled him for euer.”
• child: John Stewart, Duke of Albany “he was with mischarging of a speare by fortunes peruerse countenance pitifullie slaine and brought to death, leauing after him one onelie son named Iohn, which being banished Scotland, inhabited and maried in France, and there died.”
• with Louis XII (Louis XII killed Alexander Stewart, Duke of Albany, in a joust.) “where shortlie after riding by the men of armes, which incountered at the tilt, by Lewes then duke of Orleance, after French king, he was with mischarging of a speare by fortunes peruerse countenance pitifullie slaine and brought to death”
• with James III (Alexander was the instrument by whom James obtained liberty and freedom.) “Iames king of Scots, putting in obliuion that Alexander his brother was the onelie organ and instrument, by whome he obteined libertie & fréedome”

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Extracted from the original text of Holinshed's Chronicles — the reigns Shakespeare dramatized. Made with Rho MD.