Antara 1402 sampai 1406, daerah kekuasaan Earl Ross, Earl Moray, dan Earl Mar di kawasan utara wilayah Skotlandia tidak dipimpin orang dewasa, dan tanpa Murdoch Stewart, wakil raja untuk wilayah Skotlandia di sebelah utara Sungai Forth, yang kini mendekam dalam tahanan Inggris, Adipati Albany pun terpaksa membentuk persekutuan dengan saudaranya, Alexander Stewart, Earl Buchan, beserta putra Earl Buchan yang juga bernama Alexander demi meredam ambisi Yamtuan Pulau-Pulau.
In the years between 1402 and 1406, the northern earldoms of Ross, Moray and Mar were without adult leadership and with Murdoch Stewart, the Justiciar for the territory north of the Forth, a prisoner in England, Albany found himself reluctantly having to form an alliance with his brother Alexander Stewart, Earl of Buchan and Buchan's son, also called Alexander to hold back the ambitions of the Lord of the Isles.WikiMatrix WikiMatrix