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View Tree for Robert StewartRobert Stewart (b. 1339, d. September 2, 1420)

Robert Stewart (son of King of Scotland Robert Stewart II and Elizabeth Mure) was born 1339 in Scotland, and died September 2, 1420 in Castle of Stirling, Scotland. He married Muriella De Keith.

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Robert Stewart Duke of Albany Governor of Scotland

Robert Stewart was born 1339. He married first, by dispensation, September 9, 1361, as her fourth husband, Margaret, Countess of Menteith. In 1382 he was appointed Great Chamberlain of Scotland. He was created Dule of Albany in 1398. On the death of King Robert III, in 1406, the Duke of Albany was constituted Regent and Governor of the Realm of Scotland, his nephew James being a prisoner in England. When King Henry V was in France, in 1417, the regent raised an army to invade England and attack Berwick, but was forced to retire by the Dukes of Bedford and Exeter.

In 1419 he dispatched his son John, Earl of Buchan, with a chosen army of 7000 men into France to assist the Dauphin against the English, and he concluded a long and active life of vigorous exertion at the Castle of Stirling, September 2, 1420, aged upwards of eighty. His body was interred in the Abbey Church of Dunfermline. The Regent married, secondly, Muriella, eldest daughter of Sir William de Keith, Great Marischal of Scotland, who survived him and died shortly before Whitsunday 1449. Robert and Muriella were the parents of Elizabeth, who married Sir Malcolm Fleming. Robert Stewart was the third son of King Robert II and his first wife, Elizabeth Mure. ( The Scots Peerage, Edited by Sir James Balfour Paul, 1904, Vol I pp 146-149)


Children of Robert Stewart and Muriella De Keith are:
  1. +Elizabeth Stewart, d. date unknown.
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