The popular king of the Stewart dynasty who based his kingship on a broader geographic base than his ancestors and was seen by people all over his kingdom. Like his ancestor James II, he should have been more familiar with the new technology that caught his fancy or used the Scottish landscape as one of his weapons like Robert I, rather than allow the English to cut his army off from Scotland on a battlefield with poor footing with the unfamiliar Swiss pikes that lead to a huge disaster that left the king, a large portion of the nobility, and major members of the clergy dead to be followed by the succession of another child king. He should have also made sure that the Stewart dynasty's future didn't reside in one little young prince even if it meant delaying border warfare until he had a few more surviving children ( )