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Alexander (Elphinstone) Elphinstone First Lord Elphinstone (abt. 1480 - 1513)

Alexander Elphinstone First Lord Elphinstone formerly Elphinstone
Born about in Elphinstone, Stirling, Scotlandmap
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Husband of — married before 11 May 1509 [location unknown]
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Died at about age 33 in Battle of Flodden, Northumberland, Englandmap
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Preceded by
N/A		 1st Lord Elphinestone
Inception - 1513		 Succeeded by
Alexander Elphinstone (1510-1547)

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Alexander (Elphinstone) Elphinstone First Lord Elphinstone was killed in Action during the War of the League of Cambrai at the Battle of Flodden Field.
European Aristocracy
Alexander Elphinstone was a member of the aristocracy in Scotland.

Alexander Elphinstone, 1st Lord Elphinstone was the son of Sir John Elphinstone of Pittendreich.[1]

He married Elizabeth Barlow.[2] They had issue:[3]

  1. Alexander, 2d Lord Elphinstone
  2. James
  3. Elizabeth, m. Sir David Sommerville of Plean
  4. Euphemia: mistress of King James V with whom she had Robert Stewart, 1st Earl of Orkney, Scotland
  5. Mary, d. unmarried
  6. Barbara, died in infancy

Alexander died at the Battle of Flodden September 1513[4]

Research Notes

Sources

  1. ↑ Paul, James Balfour. "The Scots Peerage : founded on Wood's ed. of Sir Robert Douglas's Peerage of Scotland; containing an historical and genealogical account of the nobility of that kingdom", Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1906, Vol. III, Archive.org, pp. 530
  2. ↑ She next married John Forbes, 6th Lord Forbes.
  3. ↑ Paul, James Balfour. "The Scots Peerage : founded on Wood's ed. of Sir Robert Douglas's Peerage of Scotland; containing an historical and genealogical account of the nobility of that kingdom", Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1906, Vol. III, Archive.org, pp. 531
  4. ↑ Elliot, Fitzwilliam, "Battle of Flodden and the Raids of 1513", Edinburgh, Andrew Elliot, 1911, Archive.org, p. 205

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Bruce Ewen
According to Ordnance Survey, Elphinstone Tower is in East Lothian, not in the county of Stirling.
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