Alexander III (The Glorius) King of Scotland[1]
1241 - 1286 (44 years)
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Name Alexander III (The Glorius) King of Scotland [2] Born 4 Sep 1241 Gender Male Died 12 Mar 1285-1286 Fall From His Horse Near Kinghorn 
[2] Buried Dunfermline Abbey, Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland Person ID I109329 My Genealogy Last Modified 19 Aug 2013
Father Alexander II King of Scotland, b. 24 Aug 1198, d. 8 Jul 1249, Kerrera (Age 50 years) Mother Marie De Coucy, bur. Newbottle Married 15 May 1239 Roxburgh Family ID F40067 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family 1 Margaret Plantagenet, b. 5 Oct 1240, d. 26 Feb 1274-1275, Cupar Castle Fife (Age 34 years) Married 26 Dec 1251 Children 1. Margaret of Scotland, b. 28 Feb 1260-1261, Windsor Castle , d. 9 Apr 1283, Tonsberg, Norway (Age 22 years)2. Alexander of Scotland, b. 21 Jan 1263-1264, Jedburgh, Roxburghshire, Scotland , d. 1284, Lindores Abbey, Fife (Age 19 years)3. David of Scotland, b. 20 Mar 1272-1273, d. Jun 1281, Stirling Castle. Unmarried (Age 8 years)Last Modified 24 Jan 2013 Family ID F40039 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family 2 Yolande De Montfort De Dreux, b. 1263, d. 1322 (Age 59 years) Married 1 Nov 1285 Jedburgh Abbey, Jedburgh, Roxburghshire, Scotland Last Modified 24 Jan 2013 Family ID F40040 Group Sheet | Family Chart
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Notes - Alexander III was the only son of Alexander II and his second wife, Marie de Coucy (d. 1284). He was born at Roxburgh on 4 September 1241 and was inaugurated as king of Scots on 13 July 1249 at Scone. On Christmas day 1251, he was married to the daughter of Henry III of England, Margaret (d. 1275). Their first child, a daughter Margaret, was born in 1261 followed by two sons, Alexander in 1264 and David in 1273. Queen Margaret died in 1275, and within a decade all of his children were dead. Margaret had been married to King Eric of Norway and died in 1283 after giving birth to a daughter; his son Alexander - who had married Margaret of Flanders - died in 1284 while David had died in 1281. On 14 October 1285, Alexander married Yolande de Dreux, daughter of Robert, count of Dreux. This second marriage produced no children, though a posthumous child may have been born stillborn, and when Alexander died on 19 March 1286, his heir was his three-year-old granddaughter, Margaret, the Maid of Norway (d. 1290). Alexander is buried in Dunfermline Abbey. N.H. Reid, 'Alexander III', ODNB, i, 653-55; [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/323]
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