A Stewart-Albany Question

Alexander Stewart, 1st Duke of Albany, was the son of James II and Mary of Guelders. Due to the main-line of Stewarts not producing enough surviving male heirs, Albany and later his son, the 2nd Duke, hovered in the place of second or third in line to the throne for most of their lives.

Alex was married twice. The first time to Lady Catherine Sinclair, daughter of the Norse Earl of Orkney; and then to Anne de la Tour d'Auvergne (which is confusing since the 2nd duchess, who was aunt of Catherine de Medici, had the same name). However, he divorced Catherine, and their children were declared illegitimate, and was thus succeeded by his son, John, on his death.

Catherine's son, Alexander Junior, fought against his illegitimacy, but ultimately was ruled a bastard ineligible to succeed to his father's title in 1516. Now most sources mention that Alexander and Catherine had at least two sons and a daughter before they were divorced and the children bastardized. Does anyone with a knowledge of Scots' politics know why the marriage was dissolved? Why were the children rendered ineligible to succeed? And most of all, does anyone have more info on the Albany kids (both the 1st and 2nd dukes' children, as well as the descent of Lady Sinclair)? Since there seems to be another daughter, Margaret, who was not born from either wife - and some sources list her as a bastard, others as belonging to the first marriage.

Thoughts and info appreciated.
 
IDK much about Scots' politicking at the time, but I know the marriage was dissolved due to consanguinity of the spouses. Unfortunately, I can't tell you how they were related. Hope this helps.

Edit: Her mother was Lady Elizabeth Douglas, daughter of the 4th Earl of Douglas and his wife, Margaret/Marjorie Stewart, who was the daughter of Robert III of Scotland.
 
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Something I became curious about with my recent delving into the person of the last duke of Albany, is that although his wife died in 1525, between then and 1537 there is no mention of another wife for him. Does anyone perhaps know why this is? And who might have been offered if he were to remarry?
 
Something I became curious about with my recent delving into the person of the last duke of Albany, is that although his wife died in 1525, between then and 1537 there is no mention of another wife for him. Does anyone perhaps know why this is? And who might have been offered if he were to remarry?
Not really. Maybe he had some life interest on his wife lands if he not remarried or he had other reasons. But if he remarried he can make some great match being the heir presuntive to Scotland (until James V had son he was his heir). If Albany is still alive at James V's death (and not young Mary) will became the next King of Scotland, the same if he had a legitimate son. In this case Mary will likely became Queen Consort of Scotland marrying Albany's heir or will be married off as a royal princess (but neither Queen or heiress if Albany had child).
 
Not really. Maybe he had some life interest on his wife lands if he not remarried or he had other reasons. But if he remarried he can make some great match being the heir presuntive to Scotland (until James V had son he was his heir). If Albany is still alive at James V's death (and not young Mary) will became the next King of Scotland, the same if he had a legitimate son. In this case Mary will likely became Queen Consort of Scotland marrying Albany's heir or will be married off as a royal princess (but neither Queen or heiress if Albany had child).

The French toyed with a marriage between the last of the de la Poles and Dorothea of Denmark, with the hopes of stirring up trouble in England. Could de la Pole's death at Pavia result in his replacement with the widowered Albany?
 
Alexander Stewart, 1st Duke of Albany, was the son of James II and Mary of Guelders. Due to the main-line of Stewarts not producing enough surviving male heirs, Albany and later his son, the 2nd Duke, hovered in the place of second or third in line to the throne for most of their lives.

Alex was married twice. The first time to Lady Catherine Sinclair, daughter of the Norse Earl of Orkney; and then to Anne de la Tour d'Auvergne (which is confusing since the 2nd duchess, who was aunt of Catherine de Medici, had the same name). However, he divorced Catherine, and their children were declared illegitimate, and was thus succeeded by his son, John, on his death.

Catherine's son, Alexander Junior, fought against his illegitimacy, but ultimately was ruled a bastard ineligible to succeed to his father's title in 1516. Now most sources mention that Alexander and Catherine had at least two sons and a daughter before they were divorced and the children bastardized. Does anyone with a knowledge of Scots' politics know why the marriage was dissolved? Why were the children rendered ineligible to succeed? And most of all, does anyone have more info on the Albany kids (both the 1st and 2nd dukes' children, as well as the descent of Lady Sinclair)? Since there seems to be another daughter, Margaret, who was not born from either wife - and some sources list her as a bastard, others as belonging to the first marriage.

Thoughts and info appreciated.
Alexander Stewart junior ended up becoming Bishop of Moray in the 1520s. However he wasn't formally declared illegitimate until 1516 by Act of Parliament (according to wikipedia), primarily to safeguard the position of his half brother John, who at that point had just arrived in Scotland to become Regent on behalf of James V.

Disputes over the validity of first/second marriages seem to crop up now and again in the House of Stewart and off-shoot lines during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries - Robert II's heirs by his first wife appear to have been born before the marriage was properly entered into (Robert and his wife were within the forbidden degrees of consanguinity which meant that the marriage had to receive Papal dispensation - which was only received over a decade after the original marriage ceremony had been performed), which later on ultimately led to his grandson's murder by descendants of Robert's second marriage, who held that the descendants of the first marriage were illegitimate. There also appears to have been issues in the Hamilton/Lennox line descended from James III's sister Princess Mary, as the dissolution of one marriage had not been properly completed before one of the Hamiltons married his second wife (from whom his heirs descended). This was important because the Hamilton line after the extinction of the Albany line became heirs to the throne.
 
Hamiltons were heirs after Mary, followed by the Stuarts of Lennox (if I remember well) but the Albany's line was before Mary.
If Albany survived James and had only a daughter that daughter and not Mary will be Queen after him
 
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