Alexander Dunkeld II (Alexander of Scotland) 
Alexander was born on August 24th, 1198 in Haddington, East Lothian, Scotland.1 Alexander's father was King William (The Lion) of Scotland I and his mother was Ermengarde of Beaumont. His paternal grandparents were Prince, Earl of Huntington Henry Caenmore of Scotland and Ada De Warenne; his maternal grandparents were Richard de Beaumont I and Lucie de l'Aigle. He had three sisters named Margaret, Isabella and Majorie. He was the second youngest of the four children. He had six half-sisters named Ada, Margaret, Isabel, Ada, Amicia and Aufrica. He died at the age of 50 on July 6th, 1249 in Isle of Kerrera, Inner Hebrides. He was buried in Melrose Abbey, Roxburghshire.2 3 General Notes
King of Scotland
son of William I, the Lion, and of Ermengarde of Beaumont, was born at Haddington in 1198, and succeeded to the kingdom on the death of his father on 4 December 1214.
The year after his accession the clans MacWilliam and MacHeth, inveterate enemies of the Scottish crown, broke into revolt; but loyalist forces speedily quelled the insurrection. In the same year Alexander joined the English barons in their struggle against John, and led an army into England in support of their cause; but after John's death, on the conclusion of peace between his youthful son Henry III and the French prince Louis, the Scottish king joined in the pacification. Diplomacy further strengthened the reconciliation by the marriage of Alexander to Henry's sister Joanna (or Joan) on June 18 or June 25, 1221.
The next year marked the subjection of the hitherto semi-independent district of Argyll. Royal forces crushed a revolt in Galloway in 1235 without difficulty; nor did an invasion attempted soon afterwards by its exiled leaders meet with success. Soon afterwards a claim for homage from Henry of England drew forth from Alexander a counter-claim to the northern English counties. The two kingdoms, however, settled this dispute by a compromise in 1237.
Joanna died in March, 1238 in Essex, and in the following year, 1239, Alexander remarried. His second wife was Mary of Coucy (Marie de Coucy). The marriage took place on May 15, 1239, and produced one son, the future Alexander III, born in 1241.
A threat of invasion by Henry in 1243 for a time interrupted the friendly relations between the two countries; but the prompt action of Alexander in anticipating his attack, and the disinclination of the English barons for war, compelled him to make peace next year at Newcastle. Alexander now turned his attention to securing the Western Isles, which still owed a nominal allegiance to Norway. He successively attempted negotiations and purchase, but without success. Alexander next attempted to dissuade Ewen, the son of Duncan, Lord of Argyll, to sever his allegiance to the Norwegian king. Ewen rejected these attempts, and Alexander sailed forth to compel him.
But on the way he suffered a fever at the Isle of Kerrera in the Inner Hebrides, and died there in 1249. He was buried at Melrose Abbey, Roxburghshire. His son Alexander III succeeded him as King of Scots.
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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- b.1013 in Atholl, Perthshire, Scotland d.14 Aug 1040 in Iona, Elgin, Scotland
- b.1031 in Atholl, Perthshire, Scotland d.13 Nov 1093 in Alnwick, Northumberland, England
- b.1009 d.1040
- b.1085 in Scotland d.23 May 1153 in Carlisle, Cumberland County, England
- b.1017 d.1057
- b.1045 in Hungary d.16 Nov 1093 in Edinburgh Castle, Scotland
- d.1066
- b.1114 in Huntingtonshire, Scotland d.12 Jun 1152 in Huntingtonshire, Scotland
- b.1005 in Denmark d.1055 in York, Yorkshire, England
- b.1036 in Northumberland, England d.31 May 1085 in Winchester, England
- b.1015 in Bernicia, Nothumbria, England d.1045
- b.1072 d.23 Apr 1130
- b.1022 in Boulogne-sur-Mer, Artois/Pas-de-Calais, France d.1054 in Lille, Flandres
- b.1054 in Lens, Artois, France d.1086
- b.1029 in Falaise, Calvados, Normandy, France d.09 Sep 1087 in Hermentrude, near Rouen, France
- b.1143 in Scotland d.04 Dec 1214 in Stirling, Scotland
- b.1020 in Varenne near Bellencombre, Seine-Inferieure, Normandy, France d.1074
- b.1055 in Bellebcombe, France d.24 Jun 1088 in Pevensey, Sussex, England
- b.1030 in Normandie, France d.1076
- b.1083 in Sussex, England d.11 May 1138 in Lewes, Surrey, England
- b.1025 in Flandres, France d.1053
- b.1055 in Normandie, France d.27 May 1085 in Castle Acre, Norfolk, England
- b.1031 in Flanders, France d.02 Nov 1083 in Caen, Calvados, France
- b.1104 in Huntingdon, England d.1178 in Huntingdon, Huntingdonshire, England
- b.Apr 1008 in Bourgogne, Burgundy, France d.04 Aug 1060 in Vitry, Brie, France
- b.1057 in France d.18 Oct 1101 in Tarsus, Asia Minor
- b.1036 in Kiev, Ukraine d.1076 in France
- b.1081 in Vermandois, Normandy d.17 Feb 1130 in St. Nicaise, Meulan, France
- b.1028 in Vermandois, France d.1080 in France
- b.1062 in France d.23 Sep 1120 in Vermandois, Normandy, France
- b.1032 in Valois, Bretagne, France d.1080
- b.24 Aug 1198 in Haddington, East Lothian, Scotland d.06 Jul 1249 in Isle of Kerrera, Inner Hebrides
- b.1037
- b.1070 in Beaumont-sur-Sarthe, Pays de la Loire, France d.11 Jun 1120
- b.1046
- b.1100 in Beaumont-sur-Sarthe, Pays de la Loire, France d.1176
- b.1045
- b.1074
- b.1038
- b.1130 in Beaumont-le-Vicomte, Normandy, France
- b.14 Oct 1024 in Falaise, Normandie, France d.10 Sep 1087 in Hermenbraville, Rouen, Normandie
- b.21 Feb 1069 in Selby, Yorkshire, England d.01 Dec 1135 in St. Denis, Seine-St. Dennis, France
- b.1031 in Flanders, France d.02 Nov 1083 in Caen, Calvados, France
- b.1109
- b.1050 in Pays De Caux, Normandie, France d.Jan 1121 in Alcester, Warwickshire, England
- b.1077 in Alcester, Warwickshire, England d.1157
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- b.1170 in Beaumont-leVicomte, Maine, France d.12 Feb 1234 in Fife, Scotland
- b.1042 in Aigle, Orne, Normandy, France d.1085 in L'Aigle, Orne, Normandy, France
- b.1061 in Aigle, Orne, Normandy, France d.1118
- b.1048 in Avranches, Manche, Normandy, France
- b. in Aigle, Orne, Normandy, France d.1176
- b.1047 in Normandy, France d.Oct 1100 in Perche, Normandy, France
- b.1080 in Perche, Orne, Normandy, France d.1109
- b.1050 in Montdidier, Somme, Picardy, France
- b.1130 in Egenoul, France
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Details of Alexander's family with Joan of England
Details of Alexander's family with Mary de Coucy
Details of Alexander's family with <Unknown>
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