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Historical person
Robert Stewart, Duke of Albany, was a son of Robert II and one of the most powerful Scottish princes of the late fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries. He repeatedly governed the kingdom for his ailing brother Robert III and later for the captive James I.
Albany was widely suspected of responsibility for the death of his nephew David, Duke of Rothesay, though direct proof is lacking. His long rule strengthened his family but left a legacy of factional conflict that James I later destroyed.
Series
Beginning in the later fourteenth century and continuing into the troubled reign of Robert III, the House of Stewart Trilogy follows Scotland’s first Stewart kings as they struggle to turn a disputed inheritance into a durable dynasty. The crown has come through Marjorie Bruce, daughter of Robert the…
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