ALEXANDER STEWART, EARL OF MAR

'Alexander Stewart' (c.1375–1435), Earl of Mar, was an illegitimate son of Alexander Stewart, Earl of Buchan.^{[1] [2]}

Alexander held the Earldom of Mar and the Lordship of the Garioch first in right of his wife Isabel Douglas, Countess of Mar (d. 1408). Alexander's marriage to Isabella followed his capture of Kildrummy Castle, and Isabella with it, in 1374. His possession of the Earldom was regularised in 1424 by grant of King James I.
He led the so-called "Lowland" army, in fact that of the north-east and eastern Highlands, against Domhnall of Islay, Lord of the Isles at the bloody and indecisive battle of Harlaw. Unlike his father, who had been unable to keep the peace in the fractious north-east, Alexander, Walter Bower says, "ruled with acceptance nearly all of the north of the country beyond the Mounth".^[3]
Alexander remarried with Marie van Hoorn, daughter of Willem, Lord of Duffel, in 1410, but died without issue and the Earldom of Mar passed to the crown.

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1. David Ditchburn, ‘Stewart, Alexander, earl of Mar (c.1380–1435)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2005 accessed 1 Aug 2007
2. Alison Weir, Britain's Royal Family: A Complete Genealogy p. 220 (London, U.K.: The Bodley Head, 1999)
3. Grant, p. 157.

References

★ Grant, Alexander, "The Wolf of Badenoch" in W.D.H. Sellar (ed.), ''Moray: Province and People.'' Scottish Society for Northern Studies, Edinburgh, 1993. ISBN 0-9505994-7-6