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The year after his accession the clans MacWilliam and MacHeth, inveterate enemies of the Scottish crown, broke into revolt; but loyalist forces speedily quelled the insurrection. In the same year Alexander joined the English barons in their struggle against John I Of England , and led an army into the Kingdom Of England in support of their cause; but after John's death, on the conclusion of peace between his youthful son Henry III Of England and the French prince Louis VIII Of France , the Scottish king joined in the pacification. Diplomacy further strengthened the reconciliation by the marriage of Alexander to Henry's sister Joan Of England on June 18 or June 25 , 1221 . The next year marked the subjection of the hitherto semi-independent district of Argyll . Royal forces crushed a revolt in Galloway in 1235 without difficulty; nor did an invasion attempted soon afterwards by its exiled leaders meet with success. Soon afterwards a claim for homage from Henry of England drew forth from Alexander a counter-claim to the northern English counties. The two kingdoms, however, settled this dispute by a compromise in 1237 . Joanna died in March, 1238 in Essex, and in the following year, 1239 , Alexander remarried. His second wife was Marie De Coucy . The marriage took place on May 15 1239 , and produced one son, the future Alexander III , born in 1241 . A threat of invasion by Henry in 1243 for a time interrupted the friendly relations between the two countries; but the prompt action of Alexander in anticipating his attack, and the disinclination of the English barons for war, compelled him to make peace next year at Newcastle . Alexander now turned his attention to securing the Western Isles , which still owed a nominal allegiance to Norway . He successively attempted negotiations and purchase, but without success. Alexander next attempted to dissuade Ewen, the son of Duncan, Lord of Argyll, to sever his allegiance to Haakon IV Of Norway . Ewen rejected these attempts, and Alexander sailed forth to compel him. But on the way he suffered a fever at the Isle of Kerrera in the Inner Hebrides , and died there in 1249 . He was buried at Melrose Abbey , Roxburghshire . His son Alexander III succeeded him as King of Scots.
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