James Stewart, Duke of Ross was the son of King James III of Scotland and Margaret of Denmark.
Background
Of his father"s three sons, James of Ross was the favourite.
Career
lieutenant has been suggested that at the time the younger was born the older was seriously ill and seemed unlikely to survive, but it is unclear whether there is any evidence for this hypothesis. In late mediaeval Scotland it was not uncommon to have two brothers with the same Christian name, or occasionally even three.