Fought at Battle of Brechin in 1452. Held by James II for treason but was later pardoned..
(MARR) in the year 1404 in Crawford, Lanarkshire, Scotland: Spouse: Margaret Dunbar.
(Misc) : Followed his father as an ally of the Earl of Douglas.
(Misc) in the year 1445: Knighted.
(Misc) between 1446 and 1452: Hereditary Sheriff of Aberdeen.
(Misc) in the year 1451: Ambassador to England.
(Misc) in the year 1452: Rebelled against the King following the murder of the Ear of Douglas and defeated at the Battle of Brechin and later pardoned..
(Misc) in the year 1453: Guardian of the Marches.
He died on September 13, 1453 in Crawford Castle, Crawford, Lanarkshire, Scotland, he was 30 years old.
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April 20 » Three Genoese galleys and a Byzantine blockade runner fight their way through an Ottoman blockading fleet a few weeks before the fall of Constantinople.
May 29 » Fall of Constantinople: Ottoman armies under Sultan Mehmed II Fatih capture Constantinople after a 53-day siege, ending the Byzantine Empire.
July 17 » Battle of Castillon: The last battle of Hundred Years' War, the French under Jean Bureau defeat the English under the Earl of Shrewsbury, who is killed in the battle in Gascony.
October 19 » Hundred Years' War: Three months after the Battle of Castillon, England loses its last possessions in southern France.
October 28 » Ladislaus the Posthumous is crowned king of Bohemia in Prague.
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