Old Photograph Hardgate Street Haddington Scotland

Old photograph of children on Hardgate Street in Haddington, East Lothian, Scotland. King Alexander II, born 24 August 1198, died 6 July 1249) was King of Scots from 1214 until his death in 1249. He was born in Haddington, the only son of the Scottish king William the Lion and Ermengarde of Beaumont. He spent time in England, John of England knighted him at Clerkenwell Priory in 1213, before succeeding to the kingdom on the death of his father on 4 December 1214, being crowned at Scone on 6 December the same year. Joan of England, born 22 July 1210, died 4 March 1238, was the eldest legitimate daughter and third child of John of England and Isabella of Angoulême. She and Alexander II married on 21 June 1221, at York Minster. Alexander was 23. Joan was 11. They had no children. Joan was Alexander's 3rd cousin, their closest common ancestor being Henry I of England. Joan died in Essex in 1238, and was buried at Tarant Crawford Abbey in Dorset, England. King Alexander II died on the Isle of Kerrera in the Inner Hebrides. He died there in 1249 and was buried at Melrose Abbey in the Scottish Borders.



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