Alexander de Forbes , 1st Lord Forbes (c.
1380-1448), also feudal baron of Forbes, was a
Scottish peer.He was the eldest son of Sir Alexander de Forbes (d. 1405), Justiciary of Aberdeen, and
Coroner of that county, by his wife, a daughter of Kennedy of Dunure. Alexander de Forbes fought at the
Battle of Harlaw in 1411, and appears among the Scottish forces sent to the assistance of Charles,
Dauphin of France, afterwards King
Charles VII, and had a share in the victory obtained over the English at Beaugé, in
Anjou, on
March 22, 1424. But soon after, at the desire of King
James I of Scotland, then a prisoner in England, Forbes quitted 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, James Ist.
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