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| Alexander III, King of Scots | |
| Cause of Death: Accident |
| Burial: Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland |
| Changed: 12 Jul 2004 00:36:18 |
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Individual:
Death: 1286 in on his way from Edinborough to Kinghorn, Scotland Note: his horse came down wi
th him in the darkness 3 1 4 Note: Personal Details: Name: Alexander Dunkeld Title(s): King of Scots (1249 - 1286) Date of birth: September 4, 1241 Placeâé¬ofâé¬birth: Roxburgh Castle, Borders, Scotland Dateâé¬ofâé¬death: March 19, 1286 Age at death: 45 Placeâé¬ofâé¬death: Kinghorn, Fife, Scotland Causeâé¬ofâé¬death: Accident Burriedâé¬at: Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland Father: Alexander II, King of Scots Mother: Mary de Coucy ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------- Marriages: December 26, 1251: At age 10 married Margaret Plantagenet, age 11 October 14, 1285: At age 44 married Yolande de Dreux ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------- Events July 13, 1249 Coronation Scone, Perth Tayside Scotland ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------- Children: With Margaret Plantagenet Alexander Dunkeld David Dunkeld Margaret Dunkeld ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------ Notes: 1 Alexander was crowned by David de Bernham, Bishop of St. Andrews. 2 Killed when he rode his horse over a cliff.
1254. - ALEXANDER III., in a Charter, grants certain privileges to the Abbey (Dunduff) - "Sa lvis burgis nostris." (Print. Regist. Dunf. p.51, No.84.)
1285. - ROYAL INTERMENT OF KING ALEXANDER III. - "This King, in the dusk of the evening, rid ing between Burntisland and Kinghorn, was, on March 16th, thrown from his horse over a high rocky cliff, and killed on the spot." Some accounts state that the horse went over the precipice with the rider. (Hailes' An. Scot. vol. i. p.183; Fordun, x.40; Faedera, iv. 370; Abrid. Scot. Chron. p.203.)
The remains of the King were embalmed, and according to Hay's Sacra Scotia, p.323, his hear t was extracted and buried in the Church of St. John the Baptist at Perth. Fordun, in his account of the violent end of Alexander, says, "And he was buried in the Abbey of Dunfermline as became a King." (Fordun, x. 40.)
In the "Chronicon de Lanercost," mention is made of the site of the tomb of this Alexander , viz., "1285, He lies at Dunfermline alone, in the middle part, and is buried near the Presbytery;" to which the writer in the Chronicon appends: "Whence when we see a multitude lamenting as much his sudden death as the desolation of the kingdom, they alone did not moisten their cheeks with their tears, who closely adhered to him for his acts of friendship and good deeds." At his death Alexander was 44 years of age, and had reigned about 36 years.
The following are other references to the violent death and interment of Alexander III.:- "A lexandre le fitz Alexandre qi de viij. aunz de age comensa a regna xxxvij aunz Qi roumpy de cole a Kinkorn, sours de quoyen uevnt grant mal, et Sepultus Dunfermelin" - i.e., Alexander, the son of Alexander, who at eight years of age commenced to reign; he reigned 37 years, and broke his neck at Kinghorn, from which arose great evil, and he was buried at Dunfermline. (Skene's Chron. Scots and Picts, p.290.) It is singular that these notices give 37 and 39 years for Alexander's reign. He reigned 36 years.
Winton refers to the death, &c., as follows:-
"A thowsand twa hundyr foure-score of yhere The fyft, frae that the Mayden clere, Jesus Cry st oure Lord had borne; Alysawndyr oure Kyng deyd at Kyngorne Fra that place he wes had syne, And enterred in Dunfermlyne; In that collegyd Kirk he lyis: His Spyryt in-til paradays," &c.
(Wynton's Orygynale Cronikil, vol. ii. p.390.)
The Chronicon de Lanercost notes that he was buried in the "middle part near the Presbytery. " In 1285, the Presbytery was situated near the east end of the new Choir, or a little to the south of the site of the pulpit of the present modern church.
Barbour, in his notice of the death of this King, says -
"When Alexander the King was dead, That Scotland had to steer and lead, The land six years , and more perfay, Lay desolate after his day."
(Barbour's "Bruce," p.2, 36-40 lines.)
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