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Alexander Forbes, 1st Lord Forbes

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78:, then a prisoner in England, Forbes quit the French service and subsequently obtained three Safe-conducts at different times to visit England, with one hundred persons in his retinue each time, to wait upon his sovereign. 227: 85:
sometime after 1436. The precise date of the peerage creation is not known (although Brown gives 1440), but in a Precept, dated 12 July 1442, he is already styled
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of that shire, by his wife, Margaret, a daughter of Sir John Kennedy of Dunure and Mary de Montgomery of Stair and Cassillis.
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in 1411, and appears among the Scottish forces sent to the assistance of Charles,
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The first Lord Forbes married Lady Elizabeth (or Mary), only daughter of
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He was the eldest son of Sir John de Forbes (died 1405),
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feudal baron
Forbes
Scottish
Sheriff-depute
Aberdeen
Coroner
Battle of Harlaw
Dauphin of France
Charles VII
Beaugé
Anjou
James I of Scotland
Lord of Parliament
George Douglas, 1st Earl of Angus
Robert III of Scotland
"Records of the Sheriff court of Aberdeenshire"
"Forbes, Alexander (d.1448)" 
Dictionary of National Biography
Peerage of Scotland
Lord Forbes
James Forbes
Categories
14th-century births
1448 deaths
Nobility from Aberdeenshire
Lords of Parliament (pre-1707)
Peers created by James II of Scotland
Scottish soldiers
15th-century soldiers
15th-century Scottish military personnel

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