For want of funds, Alexander was unable to resist the Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights or prevent Grand Duke of Muscovy Ivan III from ravaging Grand Duchy of Lithuania with the Tatars.

Alexander Alexandrovich () ( 10 March 1845 – 1 November 1894 ), known historically as Alexander III or Alexander the Peacemaker reigned as Emperor of Russia from until his death on.

Alexander III as Tsesarevich, by Sergei Lvovich Levitsky.

An account from the memoirs of the artist Alexander Benois gives one impression of Alexander III:

In more ordinary cases Tsar Alexander III could be at once kind, simple, and even almost homely.

Alexander was the fourth son of Malcolm III by his wife Margaret of Wessex, grandniece of Edward the Confessor.

Peace between Henry III, the French prince and Alexander followed on 12 September 1217 with the treaty of Kingston.

The marriage took place on 15 May 1239, and produced one son, the future Alexander III, born in 1241.

His only legitimate child and son, by his second wife, Alexander III succeeded him as King of Scots.

Marie de Coucy, who became mother of Alexander III of Scotland

Alexander III ( Medieval Gaelic: Alaxandair mac Alaxandair ; Modern Gaelic: Alasdair mac Alasdair ) ( 4 September 1241 – 19 March 1286 ) was King of Scots from 1249 to his death.

Alexander III was also the grandson of William the Lion.

At the marriage of Alexander to Margaret of England in 1251, Henry III of England seized the opportunity to demand from his son-in-law homage for the Scottish kingdom, but Alexander did not comply.

Alexander III being rescued from the fury of a stag by Colin Fitzgerald

Alexander had married Princess Margaret of England, a daughter of King Henry III of England and Eleanor of Provence, on 26 December 1251.

Alexander III Monument at KinghornTowards the end of Alexander's reign, the death of all three of his children within a few years made the question of the succession one of pressing importance.

In 1886, a monument to Alexander III was erected at the approximate location of his death in Kinghorn.

Alexander III has been depicted in historical novels.

It includes depictions of Alexander III and his opponent Haakon IV of Norway.

The novel covers the entire reign of Alexander III ( 1249 – 1286 ), " almost entirely from Alexander's viewpoint ".

A crime fiction novel where Hugh Corbett investigates the " mysterious death " of Alexander III ( 1286 ).

He was born in Logierait, Perthshire, Scotland to Alexander Mackenzie Sr. and Mary Stewart Fleming.

Andrew of Wyntoun's Orygynale Cronykil of Scotland says that Alexander was holding court at Invergowrie when he was attacked by " men of the Isles ".

simple: Alexander I of Scotland

# Alexander, Prince of Scotland ( 21 January 1264 Jedburgh – 28 January 1284 Lindores Abbey ); buried in Dunfermline Abbey

The death of Alexander and the subsequent period of instability in Scotland was lamented in an early Scots poem recorded by Andrew of Wyntoun in his Orygynale Cronykil of Scotland.

simple: Alexander III of Scotland

Alexander has been the name of many rulers, including kings of Macedon, kings of Scotland, emperors of Russia and popes.

* Alexander I of Scotland ( c. 1078 – 1124 )

* Alexander II of Scotland ( 1198 – 1249 )

* Alexander III of Scotland ( 1241 – 1286 )

* Alexander I of Scotland ( c. 1078 – 1124 ), King of Scotland

* Alexander II of Scotland ( 1198 – 1249 ), King of Scots

* Alexander III of Scotland ( 1241 – 1286 ), king of Scotland

On 11 December 1885, after a speech by Lord Aberdeen, Lady Aberdeen unveiled a bronze statue and plaque of Alexander Selkirk outside a house on the site of Selkirk's original home on the Main Street of Lower Largo, Fife, Scotland.

Plaque for Alexander Selkirk in Lower Largo, Scotland.

Alexander Will, from Forfar in Scotland, was the first Temporary Constable to die in the conflict.

During the Anglo-French War ( 1627 – 1629 ), under Charles I, by 1629 the Kirkes took Quebec City, Sir James Stewart of Killeith, Lord Ochiltree planted a colony on Cape Breton Island at Baleine, Nova Scotia and Alexander ’ s son, William Alexander, 1st Earl of Stirling established the first incarnation of “ New Scotland ” at Port Royal.

While his parents and older siblings left for England in April and May that year, Charles remained in Scotland, with his father's friend and the Lord President of the Court of Session, Alexander Seton, Lord Fyvie, appointed as his guardian.

In Aberdeen, Scotland, the shipbuilders Alexander Hall and Sons developed the " Aberdeen " clipper bow in the late 1830s: the first was the Scottish Maid launched in 1839.

Following the Battle of Largs, the 13th century would see the Norse settlement and overlordship of Scotland end, as well as the line of David I, with the death of Alexander III.