Alexander Stewart, 4th High Steward of Scotland

Origins

Career

Marriage and issue

• James Stewart, 5th High Steward of Scotland, eldest son and heir; grandfather of King Robert II of Scotland, the first Stewart King of Scots, and thus ancestor of all subsequent Scottish monarchs and of the post-Tudor monarchs of Great Britain, later the United Kingdom.
• Sir John Stewart of Bonkyll,, 2nd son, who married Margaret de Bonkyll, the heiress of Bonkyll, by whom he had seven sons and one daughter. Ancestor of Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, father of King James VI and I of Scotland and England. He was killed in the Battle of Falkirk.
• Andrew Stewart, third son, who married the daughter of James Bethe. He was the father of Sir Alexander Steward "The Fierce" and an ancestor of Oliver Cromwell.
• Elizabeth Stewart, who married Sir William Douglas the Hardy, Governor of Berwick-upon-Tweed. She was the mother of the James Douglas, Lord of Douglas, "Good Sir James Douglas".
• Hawise Stewart, who married John de Soulis, brother of the Lord of Liddesdale.