Jacques II of Scotland
See also: Jacques II
Jacques II of Scotland , ( Seumas II in Scottish Gaelic), born the October 16th 1430, dead the August 3rd 1460, king of Scotland the February 21st 1437, wire of Jacques Ier of Scotland and Jeanne, girl of Jean Beaufort, count de Somerset.
It succeeded his father at the seven years age. It made carry out all those which had plotted against him.
In 1450, Jacques II attacked the most powerful family of the country, Black Douglas, which as all the nobility had benefitted from its minority to cause many disorders. The war is completed in 1455 by the victory of the king. All the goods of overcome were confiscated. Benefitting from the War of the Two-Pinks which prevailed in England, Jacques II sought to get rid of the last English positions in Scotland, but, with the seat of Roxburgh, it was struck mortally by the glares of one of its guns which it tested.
The July 3rd 1449, it married Marie d' Egmont, girl of Arnold d' Egmont, duke of Gueldre, and Catherine de Clèves, niece of Philippe the Good, duke of Burgundy, from which it had six children.
- Marie Stuart (+ 1488) wife 1) in 1467 Thoms Boyd Count d' Arran cancellation in 1473 2) in 1474 James Lord Hamilton (+ 1479)
- Jacques III of Scotland
- Margaret Stuart marries (?) William Crichton 3rd Lord Crichton.
- Alexandre Stuart Duke of Albany died in 1485
- David Suart born 1455, count of Moray in 1456 died in 1457
- John Stuart born in 1457 Count de Mar & Garioch in 1458 died in 1479
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