Alexander II King of Scotland 
Alexander II King of was born on August 24th, 1198 in Haddington, East Lothian, Scotland. Alexander II King of's father was William The Lion King of Scotland and his mother was Ermengarde de Beaumont. His paternal grandparents were Henry Earl of Huntingdon , Prince of Scotland and Ada de Warenne; his maternal grandparents were Richard I Seigneur de Beaumont , Vicomte Maine and Lucie de l' Aigle. He had two sisters named Margaret Princess of and Isabella Princess of. He was the second oldest of the three children. He had four half-sisters named Ada de, Miss de, Isabel of and Margaret of. He died at the age of 50 on July 6th, 1249 in Isle of Kerrera, Strathclyde, Scotland. He was buried on August 8th, 1249 in Melrose Abbey, Lanarkshire, Scotland.General Notes
Alexander was the only son of William the Lion and his wife Ermengarde. Born at Haddington, East Lothian on 24 August 1198, he was knighted by King John of England on 4 March 1212. Two years later, he succeeded his father. Although Alexander backed the barons who forced John to sign the Magna Carta, in 1221 he married John's eldest daughter Joan in York. She had no children, and died in 1238. The following year at Roxburgh, he married Marie, daughter of Enguerand, Baron de Coucy in Picardy - an alliance which raised English fears of a Franco-Scottish alliance.
The long-standing dispute between Scotland and England over the Border was settled in 1237 when, by the Treaty of York, Alexander renounced Scotland's claims to the three northern counties of England in exchange for the honour of Tynedale and the manor of Penrith. The border between Scotland and England was now fixed almost exactly on its present line from the lower Tweed in the east to the Solway Firth in the west. Alexander died on the island of Kerrera, Argyllshire in 1249 whilst preparing to take the Hebrides from Norway. He was buried at Melrose Abbey, Roxburghshire.
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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- b.1001 in Atholl, Perthshire, Scotland d.14 Aug 1040 in Elgin, Morayshire, Scotland (killed by Macbeth)
- b.1031 in Atholl, Perthshire, Scotland d.13 Nov 1093 in Alnwick Castle, Northumbria, England (slain besieging)
- b.~ 1014 in Northumbria, England d.1040
- b.~ 1080 in Scotland d.24 May 1153 in Carlisle, Cumberland, England
- b.1016 in Wessex, England d.1057 in London, Middlesex, England
- b.1045 in Hungary d.16 Nov 1093 in Edinburgh Castle, Scotland
- b.~ 1020 in Hungary d.> 1067 in Scotland
- b.1114 in Scotland d.12 Jun 1152 in Huntingdon, Huntingdonshire, England
- b.~ 0990 in Denmark d.1055 in York, Yorkshire, England
- b.~ 1036 in Northumberland, England d.31 May 1076 in Beheaded at Winchester, Hampshire, England
- b.~ 0998 in Bernicia, Northumbria, England
- b.1072 in Huntington, Huntingdonshire, England d.23 Apr 1131 in Scotland
- b.~ 1022 in Boulogne-sur-Mer, Pas-de-Calais, France d.1054 in Slain-battle of Lille at Bataille de Lille, Flanders
- b.1054 in Lens, Artois, France d.> 1086
- b.< 1030 in Normandy, France d.< 1090
- b.1143 in Huntingdon, Huntingdonshire, England d.04 Dec 1214 in Stirling Castle, Stirlingshire, England
- b.~ 1020 in Varenne near Bellencombre, Seine-Inferieure, Normandy, France
- b.< 1037 in Varenne near Bellencombre, Seine-Inferieure, Normandy, France d.24 Jun 1088 in Lewes, Sussex, England (from wounds at Siege of Pevensey)
- b.~ 1020 in France d.> 1074
- b.~ 1071 in Lewes, Sussex, England d.11 May 1138 in Priory of Lewes, Sussex, England
- b.~ 1027 in Flanders, France d.AFT 20 FEB 1070/71 in Taken prisoner at Battle of Cassel, Flanders
- b.~ 1052 in Flanders, France d.27 May 1085 in Castle Acre, Norfolk, England (in childbirth)
- b.1032 in Flanders, France d.03 Nov 1083 in Caen, Calvados, France
- b.~ 1122 in Lewes, Sussex, England d.1178 in Huntingdon, Huntingdonshire, England
- b.~ 1008 in Reims, Marne, Champagne, France d.04 Aug 1060 in Vitry-aux-Loges, Loiret, Orleanais/Centre, France
- b.1050 in Vermandois, Normandy, France d.18 Oct 1101 in The leader of 1st Crusade died at Tarsus, Cilicie
- b.~ 1024 in Kiev, Ukraine d.> 1075 in France
- b.~ 1081 in Valois now Oise, Picardy, France d.<Jul 1147 in Priory of Lewes, Sussex, England
- b.~ 1032 in Vermandois, Normandy, France d.1080 in France
- b.~ 1050 in Valois now Oise, Picardy, France d.23 Sep 1120 in Vermandois, Normandy, France
- b.1032 in Valois now Oise, Picardy, France d.1080
- b.24 Aug 1198 in Haddington, East Lothian, Scotland d.06 Jul 1249 in Isle of Kerrera, Strathclyde, Scotland
- b.~ 1037 in Mayenne, Maine/Pays de la Loire, France
- b.~ 1070 in Beaumont-le-Vicomte, Maine, France d.1100
- b.~ 1046 in Nevers, Nievre, Bourgogne, France
- b.~ 1100 in Beaumont-le-Vicomte, Maine, France d.1176
- b.~ 1045 in Laval, Mayenne, Maine/Pays de la Loire, France d.BET 1076 AND 1090
- b.~ 1070 in Laval, Mayenne, Maine/Pays de la Loire, France
- b.~ 1046 in France
- b.~ 1133 in Beaumont-le-Vicomte, Maine, France d.> 1194
- b.14 Oct 1027 in Falais, Calvados, France d.09 Sep 1087 in Hermenbraville, Seine-Maritime, France
- b.1068 in Selby, West Ride Yorkshire, England d.01 Dec 1135 in Lyons-La-Foret, Normandy, France
- b.1032 in Flanders, France d.03 Nov 1083 in Caen, Calvados, France
- b.~ 1115 in England
- b.~ 1049 in Beaumont-le-Roger, Eure, Normandy, France d.05 Jun 1118 in As a monk at Abbey of Preaux, Normandy, France
- b.~ 1098 in Leicester, Leicestershire, England d.6 JAN 1147/48 in Carmarthen, Carmarthenshire, Wales
- b.~ 1081 in Valois now Oise, Picardy, France d.<Jul 1147 in Priory of Lewes, Sussex, England
- b.~ 1158 in Beaumont-le-Vicomte, Maine, France d.11 FEB 1233/34 in Balmerino Abbey, Fife, Scotland
- b.~ 1100 in Egenoul, France
- b.~ 1135 in Egenoul, France d.> 1217
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Alexander II King of and Joan were married in a religious ceremony on July 19th, 1221 in York Minster Cathedral, York, Yorkshire, England.
Alexander II King of and Marie de were married in a religious ceremony in 1239. They had a son named Alexander III King of.
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Children
Alexander III King of Scotland
Alexander III King of was born on September 4th, 1241 in Roxburgh, Roxburghshire, Scotland. He died in Kinghorn, Fifeshire, Scotland.
They had two daughters named Marjorie of and Dernell Canmor of.
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Children
Dernell Canmor of Scotland
Dernell Canmor of was born about 1215 in Haddington, East Lothian, Scotland.
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