Douglas Family Line

Douglas Family Line

To the Death, combat between James (Black) Douglas and Robert de Neville (Peacock of the North) at Berwick-upon-Tweed in 1317, by Mark Churms.

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Grandy's 14x Great-Grandmother:

My 16x Great-Grandmother:

Laila Laemmel-Gordon's 17x Great-Grandmother:

Lady Jane Douglas, of Angus (1452 - 1494)

Jane Douglas, of Angus

Janet Douglas, of Angus

Also Known As: "Janet", "Jane Jane Douglas"

Birthdate: circa 1452

Birthplace: Kilmaurs, Ayrshire, Scotland

Denomination: (probably) Roman Catholic

Date of Marriage: circa 1468 (to about 1484)

Place of Marriage: Scotland

Death: circa 1494 in Buccleuch, Crosslee, Teviotdale, Selkirkshire, Scotland

Parents:

George Douglas, 4th Earl of Angus

1426-1463

Lady Isabel Sibbald of Balgony

1430-1503

Family 1

Spouse:

Family 2

Spouse:

George Leslie, 2nd Earl of Rothes

Born [date unknown] [location unknown]

Married: about Oct 1492 [location unknown]

Died 1513 [location unknown]

Son of Andrew (Leslie) Leslie Master of Rothes and Elizabeth Sinclair

Children:

1. Hon Walter Leslie, Master of Rothes (dvp. bef. 2 Mar 1506/7)

About Lady Jane Douglas, of Angus

George Leslie, 2nd earl of Rothes, married Oct 1492 Lady Janet Scott (widow of David Scott, Yr. of Buccleuch; d. bef. 10 Jul 1494), 5th dau. of George [Douglas], 4th Earl of Angus, by his wife Isabel Sibbald, dau. of Sir John Sibbald of Balgony

Sources

Cracroft's Peerage Rothes, Earl of (S, 1457/8)

Cracroft's Peeragd Angus, Earl of (S, 1389)

Scots Peerage. James Balfour Paul. Publication: 1904 - 1914 Vol. 7, page 278

Links

http://www.clanmacfarlanegenealogy.info/genealogy/TNGWebsite/getperson.php?personID=I7019&tree=CC

http://www.thepeerage.com/p10962.htm#i109615

Updated from WikiTree Genealogy via mother Isabel 'Isobel' Douglas (born Sibbald aka Carmichael) by SmartCopy: Jul 21 2015, 20:40:30 UTC

Sources

Paul, Sir James Balfour. "Douglas, Earl Of Angus." The Scots Peerage : Founded On Wood's Ed. Of Sir Robert Douglas's Peerage Of Scotland; Containing An Historical And Genealogical Account Of The Nobility Of That Kingdom. Vol. 1. Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1904. 172-213. Print.

http://www.thepeerage.com/p10962.htm#i109615

Source: S2 Title: Pedigree Resource File CD 49 Abbreviation: Pedigree Resource File CD 49 Publication: (Salt Lake City, UT: Intellectual Reserve, Inc., 2002)

Source: S3 Title: Ancestral File (TM) Abbreviation: Ancestral File (TM) Author: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day SAINTS Publication: June 1998 (c), data as of 5 JAN 1998

Source: S3287 Title: Type: Ancestral File Number Abbreviation: Type: Ancestral File Number (VB0F-2P)

Source: S4 Title: hofundssonAnces.ged Abbreviation: hofundssonAnces.ged

References:

https://www.geni.com/people/Janet-Douglas-of-Angus/6000000006727945973

https://www.clanmacfarlanegenealogy.info/genealogy/TNGWebsite/getperson.php?personID=I7019&tree=CC

https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/GWYT-X6X

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Douglas-817

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House of Douglas: The Red Line

Grandy's 14x Great-Grandfather:

My 16x Great-Grandfather:

Laila Laemmel-Gordon's 17x Great-Grandfather:

Military Service: United Raids into England June 1448

Military Title: 1449 Angus was made Warden of the Middle Marches.

Residence: 1452 Tantallon Castle, East Lothian, Scotland. In 1452, King James II granted Tantallon to the 4th Earl of Angus, brother of the 3rd Earl of Angus, who led the Royal force that defeated the Black Douglases at the Battle of Arkinholm in May 1455.

Military Title: 1455 High Command of the Royal Army. In early 1455, when the King took to the field against the Douglas brothers, Angus came out in full support of his Monarch, and was given High Command within the Royal Army.

Military Service: Siege of Abercorn 1455. The Earls of Douglas held the property from 1400, and James the Gross, seventh earl, died here in 1443. Abercorn Castle castle was destroyed, after a month long siege, by James II in 1455, during his campaign against the Black Douglases, and many of the garrison were hanged. The lands passed to the Setons and then to the Hamiltons.

Military Service: Battle of Arkinholm May 1, 1455. Following the defection of James Hamilton, 1st Lord Hamilton, Douglas' chief lieutenant to the King's side, the Earl of Douglas fled to England in an attempt to gain support from Henry VI of England. Douglas' brothers stayed in Scotland to continue the struggle. The brothers had appeared in force in Annandale and King James sent Angus to deal with them. Angus mustered the Border Clans and encountered the rebels on 18 May near Langholm. The ensuing Battle of Arkinholm was a rout for the Douglas brothers, Moray was killed and Ormonde captured (to be executed soon after) and only Balvenie escaped to England. That summer the Black Douglases were attainted and their estates declared forfeit. Angus appended his seal to the charter in token of approval.

Title of Nobility: 1457 Lordship of Douglas. Following the acts of attainder, Angus received the vast fiefdom and superiority of the Lordship of Douglas, obtaining a charter of confirmation in 1457.

Military Service: Siege of Roxburgh Castle 1460. In 1460, Angus accompanied King James to the siege of Roxburgh Castle, held by the English. The castle, which had been a thorn in the side of successive Scottish monarchs, contained a garrison loyal to the House of York. James had decided to back the House of Lancaster. On 3 August James' queen, Mary of Gueldres, had arrived to inspire enthusiasm amongst the besiegers. Overseeing the cannonade to greet his wife, James stood too close to one of the bombards. When it exploded, it killed him, and wounded Angus, his constant companion. Though wounded, Angus was still able to take command of much of the siege, and the castle was stormed and taken within the week.

Title of Nobility: Lord of Abernethy. On 10 August, Angus attended the coronation of James III at Kelso Abbey , where he placed the Crown upon the nine-year-old King's head, as was his right as Lord Abernethy. He is supposed to have proclaimed: "There! Now that I have set it upon your Grace's head, let me see who will be so bold as to move it."

Military Title: Lieutenant of the Realm. Angus had already become enormously powerful during the reign of James II and during the Regency for his son; his power continued to grow. Following the forfeiture of the Black Douglases, the Scots parliament had decreed that no Douglas should have a hereditary right to the wardenship of the Marches, Angus continued to exercise command over the East and Middle Marches, and was appointed lieutenant of the Realm by the Queen-regent Mary of Gueldres.

Public Office: was a commissioner sent to treat with the English twice, in 1449 and in 1459.

Public Office: Ambassador to England in 1451.

Military Offices: Warden of the East and Middle Marches 1455-1462.

Death: November 14, 1463 in Abernathy, Perth and Kinross, Scotland

Place of Burial: Abernethy, Perthshire, Scotland

Parents:

William Douglas, 2nd Earl of Angus

1398-1437

Lady Margaret Hay, Countess of Angus

1400-1484

Family

Spouse:

Lady Isabel Sibbald of Balgony

1430-1503

Isabel Sibbald of Balgony

Also Known As: "Elizabeth Isabel Sibbald of Balgonie", "Isobel Douglas", "Isobel Sibbald aka Carmichael"

Birthdate: circa 1433

Birthplace: Balgonie, Fifeshire, Scotland

Denomination: (probably) Roman Catholic

Date of Marriage: bef. 1446

Place of Marriage: Markinch, Fife, Scotland

Death: before February 21, 1497 in Meadowflat, Lanarkshire, Scotland

Immediate Family:

Daughter of John Sibbald of Balgony and Joan Livingstone

Children:

1. Egidia Douglas 1446–1472

2. Lady Jane Douglas 1452–1494

3. Lady Elizabeth Douglas 1448–1465

4. Lady Isabella Douglas 1448–1512

5. Lord Archibald Douglas 5th Earl of Angus 1449–1513

6. Anne Douglas 1450–1482

7. Alice Douglas 1453–

8. Margaret Ann Douglas 1454–1505

9. John Douglas 1457–

About George Douglas, 4th Earl of Angus

George Douglas, 4th Earl of Angus, Lord Douglas, Abernethy and Jedburgh Forest (c. 1427 – 12 March 1463) was a Scottish nobleman. He was the son of William Douglas, 2nd Earl of Angus and Margaret Hay of Yester. Known as the Great Earl of Angus, he succeeded to the Earldom following the death of his childless brother James Douglas, 3rd Earl of Angus in 1446. He was to become the first Red Chief of Douglas.

Red Douglas and the Stewart Connection

The chief line of the family were the Earls of Douglas which represented the "Black" line, whereas Angus represented the "Red" Line. Both branches were descended through bastardy from William the Hardy, Lord of Douglas. The Earl of Douglas descended through Archibald the Grim, an illegitimate son of Sir James Douglas. The 4th Earl of Angus' grandfather was an illegitimate child of William, 1st Earl of Douglas.

Although the representatives of both lines of the House wore the "three stars argent" and "Man's Heart gules" on their arms the 4th Earl of Angus and the 8th Earl of Douglas were third cousins. Angus had closer ties with the House of Stewart than his Douglas cousins however, being the great-grandson of Robert III of Scotland through his grandmother Princess Mary of Scotland, Countess of Angus. This was to have major implications in the downfall of the Black Douglases and the rise of the Red line.

Douglases United

In June 1448, Angus joined with his kinsmen the Earl of Douglas and his brother Hugh Douglas, Earl of Ormonde on a punitive raid into England and despoiled the countryside as far as Alnwick which they burnt and "come hame wele". This was in response to attacks led by the Earl of Northumberland and Robert Ogle in which they had burnt Dunbar Castle in the east, and by the Earl of Salisbury who had laid waste to Dumfries in the west. The score was evened in July when the Douglases invested Warkworth Castle and "did gret scaith" and the victory over Northumberland at the Battle of Sark.

This action in 1448 would be the last time that the two branches of the House of Douglas would act in partnership, and ride together against their hereditary foes of Percy and Neville. In 1449 Angus was made Warden of the Middle Marches.

The Douglas Rebellion

In 1452 the 8th Earl of Douglas was murdered at Stirling Castle, by his monarch James II while under assurances of safe-conduct. Other notable magnates assisted King James in the act. The whole of Douglasdale rose in rebellion under the late Earl's younger brothers, James the new 9th Earl of Douglas, his twin Archibald Douglas, Earl of Moray, and the younger Hugh Douglas, Earl of Ormonde, and John Douglas, Lord of Balvenie. During this time of intermittent internecine strife in Scotland, it might have been expected that Angus would have thrown his lot in with his Douglas cousins. However, relationships between the Black Douglases and the Red Douglases had always been tense. Moreover, as alluded above the ties of kinship between Angus and King James were close, being first cousins within one degree. A magnate as powerful as Angus could not abstain from declaring himself either way. So, when the rebellion began in earnest in early 1455, and the King took to the field against the Douglas brothers, Angus came out in full support of his Monarch, and was given high command within the Royal army. It has been suggested that Angus accompanied the King at the siege of Abercorn. Following the defection of James Hamilton, 1st Lord Hamilton, Douglas' chief lieutenant to the King's side, the Earl of Douglas fled to England in an attempt to gain support from Henry VI of England. Douglas' brothers stayed in Scotland to continue the struggle. The brothers had appeared in force in Annandale and King James sent Angus to deal with them. Angus mustered the Border Clans and encountered the rebels on 18 May near Langholm. The ensuing Battle of Arkinholm was a rout for the Douglas brothers, Moray was killed and Ormonde captured (to be executed soon after) and only Balvenie escaped to England. That summer the Black Douglases were attainted and their estates declared forfeit. Angus appended his seal to the charter in token of approval.

Ascendancy of the Red Douglas

Following the acts of attainder, Angus received the vast fiefdom and superiority of the Lordship of Douglas, obtaining a charter of confirmation in 1457

In 1460, Angus accompanied King James to the siege of Roxburgh Castle, held by the English. The castle, which had been a thorn in the side of successive Scottish monarchs, contained a garrison loyal to the House of York. James had decided to back the House of Lancaster. On 3 August James' queen, Mary of Gueldres, had arrived to inspire enthusiasm amongst the besiegers. Overseeing the cannonade to greet his wife, James stood too close to one of the bombards. When it exploded, it killed him, and wounded Angus, his constant companion. Though wounded, Angus was still able to take command of much of the siege, and the castle was stormed and taken within the week. On 10 August, Angus attended the coronation of James III at Kelso Abbey , where he placed the Crown upon the nine-year-old King's head, as was his right as Lord Abernethy. He is supposed to have proclaimed: "There! Now that I have set it upon your Grace's head, let me see who will be so bold as to move it."

Angus had already become enormously powerful during the reign of James II and during the Regency for his son; his power continued to grow. Following the forfeiture of the Black Douglases, the Scots parliament had decreed that no Douglas should have a hereditary right to the wardenship of the Marches, Angus continued to exercise command over the East and Middle Marches, and was appointed lieutenant of the Realm by the Queen-regent Mary of Gueldres.

In the following year, Angus spent a great deal of time consolidating his estates, placing trusted vassals in charge of the more far-flung properties. In 1462, he received all of the goods, lands and rents of the adherents of the forfeited Douglases in Roxburghshire, apart from those already owned by his brother William Douglas of Cluny.

In the same year, Angus was involved in negotiations with the Lancastrian Henry VI of England. Henry had obtained a bond from Angus to aid him with "a stipulated force for the recovery of that realm [England] from Henry's rebels and enemies". For Henry's part, he had promised Angus, on the recovery of his kingdom, "to make the saide erle sufficiently and suerly after the lawes of England a duke withynne the said reavme of England, with stile, astate, honure and name of a duke". The dukedom brought with it a castle and land to the value of 2000 marks.

Angus was unable to pursue his plans for an English dukedom: He died on 12 March 1463 at Abernethy.

Offices Held

- Angus was a commissioner sent to treat with the English twice, in 1449 and in 1459.

- Ambassador to England in 1451

- Warden of the East and Middle Marches 1455–1462

Marriage and issue

George Douglas, 4th Earl of Angus married prior to his accession, Isabella Sibbald daughter of Sir John Sibbald of Balgonie, Master of the Household to James II. They had nine children:

Archibald Douglas, 5th Earl of Angus

John Douglas

Anne Douglas, married William Graham, 3rd Lord Graham

Isabella Douglas, married Sir Alexander Ramsay

Elizabeth Douglas, married Sir Robert Graham of Fintry

Margaret Douglas, married sir Duncan Campbell of Glenorchy

Janet Douglas, married 1st David Scott younger of Buccleuch, 2nd George Leslie, 1st Earl of Rothes

Egidia Douglas

Alice Douglas

References:

https://www.geni.com/people/George-Douglas-4th-Earl-of-Angus/6000000002979740903

https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/LK8W-8PM

https://www.clanmacfarlanegenealogy.info/genealogy/TNGWebsite/getperson.php?personID=I247&tree=CC

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Douglas,_4th_Earl_of_Angus

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Douglas-421

http://www.palmspringsbum.org/genealogy/getperson.php?personID=I8023&tree=Legends

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/122429311/george-douglas

https://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:George_Douglas_%2848%29

https://gw.geneanet.org/sduggan?lang=en&pz=shayla+nicole&nz=duggan&p=george&n=douglas&oc=4

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Grandy's 15x Great-Grandfather:

My 17x Great-Grandfather:

Laila Laemmel-Gordon's 18x Great-Grandfather:

William Douglas, 2nd Earl of Angus (1398 - 1437)

Sir William "2nd Earl of Angus" Douglas

William , 2nd Earl of Angus, Douglas

Birthdate: circa 1398

Birthplace: Tantallon Castle, East Lothian, Scotland

Denomination: (probably) Roman Catholic

Title of Nobility: He inherited the Earldom of Angus in 1402, following his father's death of the plague whilst in English captivity, following the Battle of Homildon Hill. Angus was a captain in the Royal army and when Islay finally submitted to the King at Holyrood Abbey he was entrusted to the keeping of Angus at Tantallon for two years.

Military Title: In 1430 he was appointed Warden of the Middle March.

Military Veteran: 10 September 1435 Battle of Piperdean

Death: October 1437 in Mar Castle, Aerdeenshire, Scotland

Parents:

George Douglas, 1st Earl of Angus

1376-1402

Mary Marjory Stewart

1378-1457

Family

Spouse:

Lady Margaret Hay, Countess of Angus

1400-1484

Margaret Hay, of Yester

Margaret ,Countess of Angus, Hay

Also Known As: "Margaret le Hay"

Birthdate: circa 1400

Birthplace: Yester Castle, Yester, Gifford, East Lothian, Scotland

Denomination: (probably) Roman Catholic

Date of Marriage: December 3, 1414

Place of Marriage: Mar, Aberdeenshire, Scotland

Death: after April 22, 1484 in Mar, Aberdeenshire, Scotland

Immediate Family:

Daughter of William Hay of Lochorwart and Yester and Alice de la Haye

See: Hay Family Line

Children:

1. George Douglas 4th Earl of Angus 1417–1463

2. Hugh Douglas 1425–1466

3. Helen Douglas Baroness Ogilvy Of Airlie Countess of Angus 1425–1486

4. James Douglas 3rd Earl Of Angus 1426–1446

5. William Douglas Of Cluny 1430–1475

About William Douglas, 2nd Earl of Angus

Battle of Piperdean 1435

The Battle of Piperdean (1435) was an engagement in the Scottish Borders, fought between the Kingdom of Scotland and the Kingdom of England.

An English force led by George de Dunbar, 11th Earl of March and Henry Percy, 2nd Earl of Northumberland attempted to take the forfeited Dunbar's Castle of Dunbar back from William Douglas, 2nd Earl of Angus, who as Warden of the Scottish Marches had invested the castle the previous summer. Percy and Dunbar came north with some 4,000 men.

Angus did not want to undergo a siege, and decided to pre-empt the English by attacking them en route. An army of roughly the same force surprised the English, under Angus, Adam Hepburn of Hailes, Alexander Elphinstone of that ilk, and Alexander Ramsay of Dalhousie.

Although an overwhelming Scots victory, there is some confusion as to casualties and prisoners taken. Ridpath states that the Scots lost 200 men including Elphinstone, with Brenan concurring about this 'trifling' amount, whilst stating that the English fatalities were to the tune of 1,500 men, including 40 knights.

Northumberland retreated to Alnwick Castle, but it was not long before he returned to Scotland to successfully relieve Roxburgh Castle, under siege by King James.

William Douglas, 2nd Earl of Angus (24 February 1398-October 1437) was a Scottish nobleman and soldier. The son of George Douglas, 1st Earl of Angus and Princess Mary of Scotland, he was a grandson of King Robert III.

The story of Angus' life is interwoven with that of his uncle and King, James I of Scotland.

Angus was born about 1398 at Tantallon Castle in East Lothian. He inherited the Earldom of Angus in 1402, following his father's death of the plague whilst in English captivity, following the Battle of Homildon Hill.

«b»Return of King James«/b»

In 1420, Angus was nominated as one of twenty-one noblemen to be delivered as hostages to the English court as security for the ransom of King James I. James had been captured by the English in 1406, and was held by first Henry IV of England, and latterly by his son Henry V of England. During the king's captivity, Scotland was ruled by his uncle Robert Stewart, Duke of Albany, who had been in no hurry to pay his nephew's ransom. Following the death of Albany in 1420 the Scots finally paid the ransom monies owed. Whatever the machinations that followed, Angus was not included on the final list of hostages, but was one of the party of Scots nobles who met their King at Durham, in 1424. The King was escorted triumphantly back to Scotland, and Angus received a Knighthood from the King at his coronation at Scone Abbey on the 2 June of that year.

«b»Royal Gaoler«/b»

In 1425, a purge took place of the Albany Stewarts and their adherents. The trial which followed at Stirling Castle, included Angus amongst a large faction of Douglas nobles within the jury. Facing execution were Murdoch Stewart, 2nd Duke of Albany, his two sons Alaisdair and Walter, and the Earl of Lennox. The widowed Duchess of Albany, was held a close prisoner at Tantallon under the supervision of Angus for eight years.

In 1429, King James went north to deal with the ever troublesome Lord of the Isles. Alexander of Islay, Earl of Ross. This in response to Alexander and his islemen's burning of Inverness. Angus was a captain in the Royal army and when Islay finally submitted to the King at Holyrood Abbey he was entrusted to the keeping of Angus at Tantallon for two years.

«b»Warden of the Marches«/b»

In 1430 Angus was sent on embassy to England as one of the commissioners to negotiate an extension of the truce with the newly crowned Henry VI of England which was prolonged for five years. Later in that year he was appointed Warden of the Middle March. In 1435 Angus led a troop of men to invest Dunbar Castle. The castellan, George II, Earl of March, had previously been made a ward of the King, and the garrison surrendered the castle bloodlessly.

Dunbar castle was then held of the King by Angus and Sir Adam Hepburn of Hailes.

Dunbar fled to England calling for help in regaining Dunbar castle by force of arms. This help materialised in the spring of 1435 when Sir Robert Ogle, the Governor of Berwick upon Tweed, with Henry Percy and 4000 men marched north to retake the Castle. Angus, with Hepburn and Alexander Ramsay of Dalhousie, decided not to undergo a siege and engaged with the English forces at the Battle of Piperdean, near to Cockburnspath. This encounter resulted in defeat for the English but with little loss of life. Fifteen hundred prisoners were taken and ransomed.

«b»Later life«/b»

Angus continued to consolidate his estates, often at the expense of his cousins the Black Douglases, taking positions and fortresses previously held by the Earls of Douglas, such as Lintalee and finally Hermitage Castle for a time. Following the assassination of his uncle, King James in February 1437, Angus was instrumental in the pursuit and capture of the conspirators. These included, Walter Stewart, Earl of Atholl, a great-uncle of Angus himself. Angus died in the October of the same year, aged thirty-nine.

«b»Marriage and issue«/b»

Angus' mother remarried in 1409 to Sir James Kennedy younger of Dunure. It is thought that around this time that Angus was betrothed through negotiations by his grandmother, Margaret Stewart, 4th Countess of Angus, to Margaret Hay, daughter of Sir William Hay of Yester.

«b»They married in 1425 and they had five children:«/b»

1.) James Douglas, 3rd Earl of Angus

2.) George Douglas, 4th Earl of Angus

3.) William Douglas of Cluny

4.) Hugh Douglas, Rector of St. Andrews

5.) Helen Douglas, m. 1st. William (2nd Lord Graham of Kincardine) Graham 2nd. James Ogilvy, 1st Lord Ogilvy of Airlie

Latterly, Angus' sister, Lady Elizabeth Douglas, would marry his brother in law, Sir David Hay of Yester. Through their son John Hay, 1st Lord Hay of Yester they are the ancestors of the Marquesses of Tweeddale.

References:

https://www.geni.com/people/William-Douglas-2nd-Earl-of-Angus/6000000000120242269

https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/9HCQ-CZM

https://www.clanmacfarlanegenealogy.info/genealogy/TNGWebsite/getperson.php?personID=I249&tree=CC

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Douglas,_2nd_Earl_of_Angus

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Douglas-422

http://www.palmspringsbum.org/genealogy/getperson.php?personID=I8028&tree=Legends

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/122429424/william-,_2nd_earl_of_angus,-douglas

https://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:William_Douglas_%28144%29

https://gw.geneanet.org/sduggan?lang=en&pz=shayla+nicole&nz=duggan&p=william&n=douglas&oc=11

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Grandy's 16x Great-Grandfather:

My 18x Great-Grandfather:

Laila Laemmel-Gordon's 19x Great-Grandfather:

George Douglas, 1st Earl of Angus (1376 - 1402)

Sir George Douglas, 1st Earl of Angus

George "1st Earl of Angus" Douglas

Birthdate: circa 1376

Birthplace: Tantallon Castle, near, North Berwick, East Lothian, Scotland

Denomination: (probably) Roman Catholic

Title of Nobility: 1st Earl of Angus (became the 1st Earl of Angus, founding the Red Douglas branch of the family)

Acceded to Title: 9 Apr 1389 (on resignation of his mother) - In 1377 on the death of Thomas Stewart, 3rd Earl of Angus, without issue, the title devolved on his sister, Lady Margaret. She resigned it in 1389 and King Robert II then granted the earldom of Angus, with the lordships of Abernethy, in Perthshire, and of Bonkil, in Berwickshire, to George Douglas, her illegitimate son by William, 1st Earl of Douglas, her brother-in-law.

Title of Nobility: Lord of Abernethy and Bonkyll 1380-1403 (upon his betrothal to Princess Mary, daughter of Robert III of Scotland)

Military Service: Fought & died of plague while captive, after being wounded five times and taken captive in the Battle of Homildon Hill (1402).

Death: 1402 in Lancashire, England (Died of plague while captive, after being wounded five times and taken in the Battle of Homildon Hill.)

Place of Burial: Saint Bride's Cemetery, Douglas, South Lanarkshire, Scotland

Parents:

William Douglas, 1st Earl of Douglas

1327-1384

Margaret Stewart, 4th Countess of Angus

1335-1417

Family

Spouse:

Mary Marjory Stewart

1378-1457

Princess Mary Stewart

Princess Mary Stewart Princess Of Scotland, Countess of Angus

Mary of Scotland, Countess of Angus

Also Known As: "Princess", "Lady Mary Stewart", "Mary Stewart", "Countess of Arran", "Countess of Angus"

Birthdate: circa 1378

Birthplace: Dunfermline, Fifeshire, Scotland

Denomination: (probably) Roman Catholic

Date of Marriage: May 24, 1397

Place of Marriage: Scotland

Death: March 20, 1457 in Duntreath Castle, Strathblane, Stirlingshire, Scotland

Place of Burial: Strathblane, Stirling, Scotland

Immediate Family:

Daughter of Robert III, King of Scots and Annabella Drummond, Queen Consort of Scots

See: Stewart Family Line

Children:

1. Lady Elizabeth Mary Douglas 1398–1460

2. William Douglas 2nd Earl of Angus 1398–1437

3. Elizabeth Douglas 1402–1451

4. George Douglas 4th Earl of Angus

About George Douglas, 1st Earl of Angus

George Douglas, 1st Earl of Angus (1380–1403) was born at Tantallon Castle, East Lothian, Scotland. The bastard son of William, 1st Earl of Douglas and Margaret Stewart, Dowager Countess of Mar & Countess of Angus and Lady Abernethy in her own right.

He was seen as the product of incest as his mother was the widow of Earl William's wife's brother, Thomas, 13th Earl of Mar.

Earl William's legitimate wife Margaret of Mar had already produced an heir for her Lord in 1358, James, 2nd Earl of Douglas and Mar inherited upon his father's death in 1384

In 1389, Margaret of Angus relinquished her title in favour of her son, but he did not assume it until his betrothal in 1397 to the princess Mary, daughter of King Robert III. Margaret of Angus' influence must have been considerable- in addition to obtaining a royal bride for her illegitimate son, she peruaded King Robert to confirm him in his style of Earl of Angus, and also to bestow upon him the lordships of Abernethy, (Perthshire) and Bonkill, (Berwickshire); and "to endow him and his spouse with the justiciary fees of the County of Forfar, to ratify all gifts, entails, and leases made or to be made by Isabel, Countess of Mar, to the said Jorge her brothir" -(Maxwell).

James 2nd Earl of Douglas, was killed without issue in 1388, at the Battle of Otterburn, and the Earldom of Mar, and all non-entailed Douglas possessions passed to his sister Isabel. The earldom of Douglas passed to a cousin, a bastard son of The Good Sir James Douglas, the aptly named Archibald the Grim.

The descendants of Archibald formed the famed Black line, and those of George the equally famed the longer lived Red Line.

Angus does not appear to have taken much interest in Public life, although his name appears on various minor charters. In 1402 however, he was dispatched under orders of the Duke of Albany, Regent of Scotland to accompany Murdoch, Earl of Fife and the Earl of Moray to assist the Earl of Douglas during his invasion of Northumberland. That incursion ended at the disastrous field of Homildon Hill, where the Scots were routed and all of the above taken prisoner. Both Moray and Angus died of the Plague whilst captive.

References:

https://www.geni.com/people/George-Douglas-1st-Earl-of-Angus/6000000002186288135

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Grandy's 17x Great-Grandfather:

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William Douglas, 1st Earl of Douglas (1327 - 1384)

William Douglas, 1st Earl of Douglas & Mar

William Douglas, 1st Earl of Douglas, Earl of Mar

Birthdate: circa 1323

Birthplace: Douglas, Lanarkshire, Scotland

Denomination: (probably) Roman Catholic

Title of Nobility: Laird of Douglas 1342–1384

Military Service: In 1346-47 Douglas gathered his men and drove the English out from his ancestral lands of Douglasdale. Douglas went in the style of his uncle, the Good Sir James, and for the following few years waged guerrilla war against the English in the Ettrick Forest and Jedforests.

Military Service: 1353 Victorious duel with the Knight of Liddesdale.

Military Service: Battle of Nesbit Moor 1355. The Battle of Nesbit Moor was an engagement fought in August, 1355 between forces of the Kingdom of Scotland and the Kingdom of England.

Military Service: Battle of Poitiers 1356

Title of Nobility: Earl of Douglas 1358–1384. Douglas was created Earl of Douglas on 26 January 1358. To reflect his new-found status, he built Tantallon Castle, a Medieval castle surrounded by a curtain wall. The castle became the home of Douglas' sister-in-law and mistress, Margaret Stewart, 4th Countess of Angus, the mother of his illegitimate son, George Douglas, who would later be created Earl of Angus by the right of his mother.

Legal Office: Douglas was appointed Justiciar South of the Forth in 1372.

Title of Nobility: Earl of Mar jure uxoris 1374–1384

Death: May 1, 1384 in Castle Douglas, Kirkcudbright, Scotland

Place of Burial: Scotland

Parents:

Sir Archibald 'The Tyneman' Douglas

1297-1333

Beatrice de Lindsay, of Crawford

1302-1352

Family 1

Spouse:

Margaret of Mar, Countess of Mar

1338-1393

Also Known As: "Douglas", "de Swyntone"

Birthdate: circa 1338

Birthplace: Castle Cary, Somersetshire, England

Denomination: (probably) Roman Catholic

Royal Titles: Dowager Countess of Mar & Countess of Angus, Countess of Angus, Countess of Mar, Countess 10th of Mar, Lady

Date of Marriage: bef. 1345

Place of Marriage: Scotland

Death: October 19, 1393 in Scotland

Immediate Family:

Daughter of Domhnall II, Earl of Mar and Isabella Stewart of Bonkill, Countess of Mar

Children:

1. Helen Douglas 1345–

2. Sir James Douglas 2nd Earl of Douglas, Earl of Mar 1358–1388

3. Mary Douglas 1359–1399

4. Isabel Douglas 1360–1408

5. Joan Douglas 1360–1395

6. Christian Douglas

Family 2

Partner:

Margaret Stewart, 4th Countess of Angus

1335-1417

Margaret Stewart, 4th Countess of Angus, Lady Abernethy (suo iure)

Birthdate: circa 1335

Birthplace: Douglas, Lanarkshire, Scotland

Denomination: (probably) Roman Catholic

Marriage: (unmarried mistress)

Death: March 23, 1418 in Scotland

Immediate Family:

Daughter of Thomas Stewart, 2nd Earl of Angus and Margaret Sinclair of Roslin

Children:

1. Sir George Douglas, 1st Earl of Angus 1378–1402

2. Lady Margaret Douglas

About William Douglas, 1st Earl of Douglas

Early life

William Douglas was the son of Sir Archibald Douglas (died 1333) and Beatrice de Lindsay, the daughter of Sir Alexander de Lindsay of Crawford, South Lanarkshire.[2] He was the nephew of "Sir James the Good", the trusted deputy of King Robert I of Scotland (Robert the Bruce). From the time of his father's death at the Battle of Halidon Hill, Douglas is described as being a ward of his kinsman and godfather, William Douglas, Knight of Liddesdale, and was educated in France.[3] In 1342, under pressure from Liddesdale, his uncle Hugh the Dull resigned the Lordship of Douglas to him, though Liddesdale rapaciously administered his estates while it was in his ward-ship, and assumed direct ownership of some of the Douglas territories.

Douglas returned to Scotland, upon reaching his majority in 1348, and immediately started to put his house in order. In 1346-47 following the Battle of Neville's Cross, King David II, and other nobility, including Liddesdale, were held captive by the English. Edward Baliol used the opportunity to ravage the whole of the south of Scotland. Douglas gathered his men and drove the English out from his ancestral lands of Douglasdale.[4] Douglas went in the style of his uncle, the Good Sir James, and for the following few years waged guerrilla war against the English in the Ettrick Forest and Jedforests.[5]

Douglas next became one of the commissioners to negotiate with the English for the release of David II of Scotland.[6]

Death of the Knight of Liddesdale

In 1353, Edward Baliol was ensconced at Buittle in his ancestral territories in Galloway. Douglas led a raid there to eject him due to Baliol's forfeiture of those lands that had been made over to Sir James Douglas in 1324.[7] Following this raid, returning through the Forest, Douglas came across Liddesdale hunting on what Douglas viewed as his desmesne. This was the match that lit the fuse of years of resentment over Liddesdale's assumption of the Douglas patrimony, notwithstanding Liddesdale's murder of Sir Alexander Ramsay of Dalhousie which John of Fordun gives as a reason for the enmity between the men.[8] Another more likely explanation for the killing was Liddesdale's treasonous agreement with the English to gain his own freedom from captivity. Liddesdale, once in high standing with the Crown, had fallen into disfavour following his murder of Ramsay and another Knight, Sir David de Barclay. Douglas set upon Liddesdale and killed him. In February 1354, William of Douglas received a new charter from King David bestowing all the lands held by his uncle Sir James, his father Sir Archibald, and Liddesdale itself.[9][10]

War with England and Battle of Poitiers

In 1355 the truce with England expired and Douglas with the Earl of Dunbar and March, whose lands had been ravaged, decided to take Norham Castle in retaliation. One of Douglas' captains, Sir William Ramsay of Dalhousie, was instructed to despoil, ransack and ravage the lands around Norham and burn the town in an effort to entice the garrison out to battle. Ramsay did so and the English under the castle's constable, Sir Thomas Grey of Heaton and Lord Dacre, gave chase. Douglas and March meanwhile were encamped seven miles away in woodland to the south of Duns, when Ramsay had reached them. The English pursuers were ambushed by the Scots force, and completely overwhelmed. Following this Battle of Nesbit Moor, Douglas and March joined with the Earl of Angus in making an assault upon Berwick, but the Scots had to retire from there before the advancing army of Edward III. King Edward laid waste to the Lothians in an event that would be known as the "Burnt Candlemas". His supply lines were overstretched, the Scots scorched earth policy, Edward had to turn homewards, but not before being ambushed and nearly taken by Lord Douglas's men outside Melrose.[11][12] Following Edward's retreat into England, Douglas arranged a truce with William de Bohun, 1st Earl of Northampton that would last until Michaelmas.[13]

He also arranged a Safe conduct to visit the captive King David. Following this Douglas crossed with a large following to France and took up arms with Jean le Bon against Edward of Woodstock, the Black Prince. Douglas was present at the Battle of Poitiers where he was knighted by the French King. Douglas fought in the King's own Battle, but when the fight seemed over Douglas was dragged by his men from the melee. Froissart states that "... the Earl Douglas of Scotland, who fought a season valiantly, but when he saw the discomfiture he departed and saved himself; for in no wise would he be taken by the Englishmen, he would rather there be slain".[14] After the defeat there Douglas escaped, but left a number of his men either slain or captive, including his first cousin latterly the 3rd Earl of Douglas, Archibald the Grim.[15][16]

Douglas returned to Scotland by mid Autumn, and was involved in peace negotiations with the English, one aspect of the treaty was the creation of March Wardens of which Douglas was one. Under the auspice of this office, Douglas seized Hermitage Castle in Liddesdale from the English in response to their depredations on Eskdale.[17] Douglas was part of the parliament that met at Berwick in 1357, which finalized the release of King David through the Treaty of Berwick, Douglas himself being one of the securities for his release.[18]

Earl of Douglas and Mar

Douglas was created Earl of Douglas on 26 January 1358.[19][20] To reflect his new-found status, he built Tantallon Castle, a Medieval castle surrounded by a curtain wall.[21] The castle became the home of Douglas' sister-in-law and mistress, Margaret Stewart, 4th Countess of Angus,[22] the mother of his illegitimate son, George Douglas, who would later be created Earl of Angus by the right of his mother.

In 1364, Douglas joined King David II in seeking a treaty with England that would have written off Scotland's debt to England in return for depriving his nephew, Robert the Steward, formerly an ally of Douglas, of the succession. King Edward III's son, Lionel of Antwerp, would have taken the Scottish throne, although the independence of Scotland was to be guaranteed, and a special clause was to be provided for the restoration of the English estates of the Douglas family.

The plan never succeeded, and on the accession of Robert the Steward as King Robert II, Douglas was nevertheless reconciled and appointed Justiciar South of the Forth in 1372. The last years of Douglas' life were spent in making and repelling border raids. He died at Douglas, South Lanarkshire on 1 May 1384.

Marriage and Issue

William Douglas married in 1357, Margaret of Mar, the daughter of Domhnall II, Earl of Mar and Isabella Stewart, who succeeded her brother Thomas as Countess of Mar.[23] They had two children:

James Douglas, 2nd Earl of Douglas (1358–1388)

Lady Isabel Douglas, Countess of Mar (1360–1408)

The Earl of Douglas also fathered two illegitimate children by his brother-in-law's wife, Margaret Stewart, widow of Thomas, Earl of Mar and Countess of Angus in her own right:

George Douglas, who inherited the estates of Angus and was later created Earl of Angus, being the heir of his mother.

Lady Margaret Douglas, who received in 1404, the lands of Bonjedward from her half-sister, Lady Isabel Douglas.[24]

He is also said to have been the father of another illegitimate daughter, Joan Douglas, who married William Dacre, 5th Baron Dacre.[25]

Notes

^ Maxwell, vol I, p.93

^ G.E. Cokayne, with various editors, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), Volume IV, pg.430. Hereinafter cited as The Complete Peerage.

^ Maxwell, Vol I, p.76

^ Fraser, Vol I, p.217

^ Fraser, VolI, p.217

^ Fraser, Vol I p.218

^ Maxwell, VolI p.57

^ Fordun, p.360 clxx

^ Maxwell, Vol I pp.78-79

^ Fraser, vol i, pp222-228

^ Fordun, CLXXVI,p.374

^ Maxwell, vol I, p80

^ Maxwell, vol I p80

^ Froissart,CLXII, pp.124-126

^ Fordun, CLXXVII pp.375-376

^ Fordun, p.377 note

^ Maxwell, Vol 1, p.80

^ Fraser, Vol.I,p.233

^ Maxwell, Vol.I, p.81

^ Fraser Vol.I, p.234

^ Tabraham, Tantallon Castle, p.16

^ Salter, The Castles of Lothian and the Borders, pp.86–88

^ G.E. Cokayne, with various editors, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), Volume IV, page 431. Hereinafter cited as The Complete Peerage.

^ Fraser, Vol.I, pp.290-91

^ Cokayne, George Edward "Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, and Great Britain, Vol. 3" pg. 2

Sources

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Douglas". Encyclopædia Britannica. 8 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.

Brown Michael, Black Douglases: War and Lordship in Late Medieval Scotland, 1300-1455. Tuckwell Press. 1998

Brenan, Gerald, A History of the House of Percy II vols. London 1902

Fordun, John of, Chronica Gentis Scotorum, ed.Skene, W.F., Edinburgh 1871.[1]

Fraser, Sir William, The Douglas Book IV vols. Edinburgh. 1885

The Records of the Parliaments of Scotland to 1707 [2], K.M. Brown et al. eds (St Andrews, 2007–2011).

Froissart Chronicles, trans. Lord Berners, ed. Macaulay, G.C.. London 1904.[3]

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Grandy's 18x Great-Grandfather:

My 20x Great-Grandfather:

Laila Laemmel-Gordon's 21x Great-Grandfather:

Military Service: Battle of Annan 16 December 1332 (In the early morning hours of 16 December 1332 Bruce loyalists led by Sir Archibald Douglas, John Randolph, 3rd Earl of Moray, Robert II of Scotland, and Simon Fraser made a surprise attacked on Balliol. Most of Balliol's men were killed, though he himself managed to escape through a hole in the wall and fled naked on horse to Carlisle, England. Edward's brother Henry Balliol Prince of Scotland died as a result of injuries sustained at the battle of Annan. The death of Henry ended the Balliol Scot dynasty as King Edward died childless in 1367)

Military Service: Battle of Halidon Hill 1333 (fought & died in battle)

Death: July 19, 1333 in Battle of Halidon Hill, Berwick-on-Tweed, Northumberland, England (Battle of Halidon Hill)

Place of Burial: Scotland

Parents:

William “le Hardi” Douglas, Lord of Douglas

1255-1298

Aliénor de Lovaine

1260-1326

Family

Spouse:

Beatrice de Lindsay, of Crawford

1302-1352

Beatrice Lindsay of Crawford

Beatrice de Lindsay,

Lady Beatrice de Lindsay Baroness Douglas

Also Known As: "Beatrix de Lindsay"

Birthdate: circa 1302

Birthplace: Crawford, Clydesdale, Lanarkshire, Scotland (or, Abercorn, Linlithgowshire, Scotland)

Denomination: (probably) Roman Catholic

Date of Marriage: 1320

Place of Marriage: Lothianbridge, Midlothian, Scotland

Death: 1352 in Erskine, Renfrewshire, Scotland

Immediate Family:

Daughter of Sir Alexander Lindsay, of Crawford (1267-1308) and Lady Beatrix Alice Stewart, Countess of Mar (1268-1337)

Children:

1. Eleanor Douglas 1315–1360

2. John Douglas of Westcalder 1321–1341

3. William Douglas, 1st Earl of Douglas, Earl of Mar 1327–1384

About Sir Archibald 'The Tyneman' Douglas

Sir Archibald Douglas (before 1298 – 19 July 1333) was a Scottish nobleman, Guardian of Scotland, and military leader. He is sometimes given the epithet "Tyneman" (Old Scots: Loser), but this may be a reference to his great-nephew Archibald Douglas, 4th Earl of Douglas.

Early life

The younger son of Sir William "le Hardi" Douglas, the Governor of the castle at Berwick-upon-Tweed, and his wife, Eleanor de Lovaine, Douglas was also half-brother of "the Good" Sir James Douglas, King Robert the Bruce's deputy.

Douglas is first heard of in 1320 when he received a charter of land at Morebattle in Roxburghshire and Kirkandrews in Dumfriesshire from King Robert. In 1324, he was recorded as being granted the lands of Rattray and Crimond in Buchan and the lands of Conveth, Kincardineshire, already being possession of Cavers in Roxburghshire, Drumlanrig and Terregles in Dumfriesshire, and the lands of West Calder in Midlothian. By the time of his death, he was also in possession of Liddesdale.[1]

History then keeps quiet about Douglas except whilst serving under his older brother, James, in the 1327 campaign in Weardale, where his foragers "auoint curry apoi tot levesche de Doresme"- overran nearly all the Bishopric of Durham. (Scalacronica)

Second War of Independence

Following the death of King Robert I and his half brother Sir James Douglas's crusade with the dead king's heart, Douglas once again becomes of note. He was made guardian of the kingdom since he was "the principal adviser in...the confounding of the king" as much as he was heir to his brothers influence after Murray's capture. Archibald's success in local raids though, did not prepare him for full-scale conflict.

During the Second War of Scottish Independence, Edward Balliol, son of King John Balliol, had invaded Scotland with the backing of Edward III of England, inflicting a defeat on the Scots at the Battle of Dupplin Moor. Douglas served under the dubious leadership of Patrick V, Earl of Dunbar leader of the second army that aimed to crush the smaller Balliol force. Following the rout of the Earl of Mar's force Dunbar did not engage the disinherited but retreated allowing Edward Balliol to be crowned at Scone. Following this battle, and as a sweetener to the English, Edward Baliol agreed to cede the county, town and castle of Berwick to England in perpetuity. However Douglas led a Bruce loyalist defeat on Balliol at the Battle of Annan, forcing him to flee back to England.

Battle of Annan, 1332

The Battle of Annan, known in the sources as the Camisade of Annan, took place on 16th December 1332.

In October 1332, Sir Archibald Douglas, now Guardian of Scotland, made a truce with Balliol, supposedly to let the Scottish Parliament assemble and decide who their true king was. Emboldened by the truce, Balliol dismissed most of his English troops and moved to Annan, on the north shore of the Solway Firth. He issued two public letters, saying that with the help of England he had reclaimed his kingdom, and acknowledged that Scotland had always been a fief of England. He also promised land for Edward III on the border, including Berwick-on-Tweed, and that he would serve Edward for the rest of his life. But in December, Douglas attacked Balliol at Annan in the early hours of the morning. Most of Balliol's men were killed, though he himself managed to escape through a hole in the wall, and fled, half naked and on horse, to Carlisle.

More on the Battle of Annan:

http://drcallumwatson.blogspot.com/2018/12/ballyol-his-gat-is-ganeon-barme-hors.html

Battle of Halidon Hill

Edward III himself came north to command his army, and laid siege to Berwick-upon-Tweed. However, a temporary truce was declared with the stipulation that if not relieved within a set time, Sir Alexander Seton, the governor, would deliver the castle to the English. Douglas raised an army to relieve the beleaguered defenders of Berwick. As a feint to draw the English away he invaded Northumberland, but was forced to return to Berwick when the English refused to be lured. On 19 July, Edward's army took positions at the summit of Halidon Hill, a summit some mile and a half north of the town with commanding views of the surrounding country. Douglas' numerically superior force was compelled to attack up the slope and were slaughtered by the English archers, a prelude, perhaps, to the battles of Crécy and Agincourt. The English won the field with little loss of life, however by the close of the fight, countless Scots common soldiery, five Scots Earls and the Guardian Douglas lay dead. The following day Berwick capitulated.

Archibald was succeeded by his son, William Douglas, 1st Earl of Douglas.

Marriage and issue

Sir Archibald Douglas married Beatrice de Lindsay, daughter of Sir Alexander de Lindsay of Crawford, South Lanarkshire, an ancestor of the Earls of Crawford. They had three children:[2]

John Douglas (d.b. 1342 in the retinue of David II of Scotland in France)

William Douglas, 1st Earl of Douglas

Eleanor Douglas married five times -

-Alexander, Earl of Carrick, natural son of Edward Bruce, King of Ireland (k. 1333, Battle of Halidon Hill)

- Sir James de Sandilands, ancestor of the Lords of Torphichen (d.b. 1358)

- Sir William Tours of Dalry (d.b. 1368)

- Sir Duncan Wallace of Sundrum (d.b. 1376)

- Sir Patrick Hepburn of Hailes, ancestor of the Earls of Bothwell

Notes

Scot's Peerage Vol. IV p. 141

Maxwell, p.75

References

Balfour Paul, Sir James. The Scots Peerage IX vols. Edinburgh. 1907

Maxwell, Sir Herbert. A History of the House of Douglas Vol. I. Fremantle, London. 1902

Brown Michael. The Black Douglases, War & Lordship in Late Medieval Scotland. Tuckwell Press, East Linton. 1998

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Ally of William Wallace

Grandy's 19x Great-Grandfather:

My 21x Great-Grandfather:

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Military Service: Siege of Berwick 1296

Military Service: Supporter of William Wallace - Douglas was the first nobleman to join with Sir William Wallace in 1297 in rebellion; combining forces at Sanquhar, Durisdeer and later Scone Abbey where the two liberated the English treasury.

Military Service: Battle at Sanquhar 1297 - During the war of Scottish Independence the English army took over the old castle at Sanquhar. The Lord of the Castle, Sir William the Hardy, Lord of Douglas, learned of this and came up with a clever plot where one man sneaked into the castle and threw open the gates, allowing Lord Douglas to seize it. The English began a counter-attack, but William Wallace learned of the battle and came to the rescue. As the English army retreated, Wallace chased them down and killed 500 of them. Wallace visited the castle on several occasions.

Military Service: Raid on Scone 1297 - After the Action at Lanark, During what became known as the First War of Scottish Independence, William Wallace joined forces with William Douglas 'Le Hardy' and led a raid on the city of Scone. He and his men forced William de Ormesby, the English appointed Justice of Scotland to flee, and took control.

English chroniclers state that Edward dispatched Antony Bek to Scotland to find out personally about reports on the killing of Hessilrig at Lanark and the near capture of his justiciar Ormsby at Scone. Ormsby had been holding a court of justice to demand homage and fealty from local landowners Wallace and Sir William Douglas rode to Scone to capture or kill Ormsby but he had been forewarned of Wallace's approach and escaped leaving his belongings behind Chroniclers give the date of the attack as May 1297 before Bell o' the brae, but it may have been into June when the raid took place.

Military Service: Massacres in Southern Ayrshire 1297 - With his wife and family in the custody of Robert The Bruce, 2nd Earl of Carrick, Sir William Douglas was forced to align himself with the 2 nd Earl of Carrick, probably as a means to secure their release. At Carrick the Earl had better luck at mobilizing his own vassals, from there on they went on an orgy of wanton destruction and ethnic cleansing of the English from southern Ayrshire.

Death: January 24, 1298 died while a prisoner in the Tower of London, Middlesex, Greater London, England (Hanged by the English in the Tower of London)

Burial: January 1298 at Douglas Castle, Lanarkshire, Scotland

Parents:

William Longleg, Lord of Douglas

1220-1274

Constance Battail of Fawdon

1220-1274

Family 1

Spouse:

Elizabeth Stewart of Crawford

1250-1288

Elizabeth Stewart

Also Known As: "Elisabeth"

Birthdate: 1250

Birthplace: Irvine, North Ayrshire, Scotland

Denomination: (probably) Roman Catholic

Marriage: 1276 in Douglas, Lanarkshire, Scotland

Death: November 1288 in Scotland

Immediate Family:

Daughter of Sir Alexander Stewart, 4th High Steward of Scotland (1214-1283) and Jean MacRory, Heiress of Arran And Bute (1210-1297)

See: Stewart Family Line

Children:

1. Barbara Douglas Of Douglas 1280–1350

2. Lord James Douglas, The Black Douglas 1286–1330 (the man who tried to take Robert The Bruce' heart to Jerusalem - the inspiration for the heart on the coat of arms)

Family 2

Spouse:

Aliénor de Lovaine

1260-1326

Eleanor de Lovaine

Eleanor Ferrers

Also Known As: "Alianore", "Eleanor De Lovin", "Elizabeth Bagot de Lovaine"

Birthdate: circa 1267

Birthplace: France

Denomination: (probably) Roman Catholic

Date of Marriage: January 28, 1289

Place of Marriage: Douglas, Lanarkshire, Scotland

Immediate Family:

Daughter of Mathew II de Lovaine, of Little Easton (1237-1302) and Helisant de Bohoun (1248-1291)

Children:

1. Sir Archibald 'The Tyneman' Douglas 1297–1333

2. Hugh Douglas 1294–1345

About William “le Hardi” Douglas, Lord of Douglas

Sir William Douglas "le Hardi" (the Bold), Lord of Douglas (1255 – 24 January 1298)[1][dubious – discuss][original research?] was a Scottish nobleman and warlord.

Early life

William Douglas was the son of William Longleg, Lord of Douglas and it is supposed by his possible second wife, Constance Battail of Fawdon.[2] He first is recorded at an Assize at Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 1256, when his father made over a Carucate of land at Warndon, Northumberland to him. Douglas' father William Longleg was Lord of Fawdon, and had as his superior Gilbert de Umfraville, Earl of Angus, Longleg was acquitted of withholding rents by a jury, Umfraville notwithstanding attacked Fawdon, imprisoned Longleg at Harbottle Castle and made off with some £100 sterling of goods. William Douglas was injured in the fight. Ita quod fere amputaverunt caput ejus – So as to nearly cut off his head.[3]

Eighth Crusade

Sir William Fraser puts forward a theory that David Hume of Godscroft is mistaken about the William Douglas that went Crusading, and suggests that it is this William Douglas, the son the rather than the father, who accompanied David I Strathbogie, Earl of Atholl, and other Scots nobility on the Eighth Crusade in 1270, as recorded by John of Fordun in his Chronica Gentis Scotorum.[4][5][6] Fraser also concedes that there is no existing evidence left to verify this, except the reference in Godscroft's work.

Lord of Douglas

Douglas' father, Longleg died at some point c. 1274 and there is some confusion as to whether his eldest son Hugh predeceased him, however William the Hardy was certainly in possession of his estates by the end of the decade. Douglas was knighted before 1288, when he was called upon by Sir Andrew Moray, to imprison his uncle Sir Hugh de Abernethy at Douglas Castle. Abernethy had been party to the murder of Donnchadh III, Earl of Fife, one of the six Guardians of Scotland. Abernethy died in custody despite attempts by Edward I of England to have him released.

In 1289, Douglas requested the release of certain family charters from Richard, Abbot of Kelso. These charters had been kept at the Priory of Lesmahagow, a daughter house of the Tironensian Abbey of Kelso, for safety. In the receipt for these documents, Douglas styled himself Dominus de Duglas, Lord of Douglas, the first time the title had been recorded.

Marriages

Elizabeth Stewart

Douglas had married Elizabeth, daughter of Alexander Stewart, 4th High Steward of Scotland, by whom he had his eldest son James. Elizabeth Stewart appears to have died before the end of 1288, possibly in childbirth.[7]

Eleanor de Lovaine

Later in 1288, William Douglas and a Borders Knight known as John Wishart surrounded the Castle of Fa'side near Tranent. The castle was held by Alan la Zouche, 1st Baron la Zouche of Ashby, feudal superior of the barony of Tranent. Within the Castle was Zouche's wife Eleanor, and another Eleanor, recently widowed wife of William de Ferrers of Groby, second son of William de Ferrers, 5th Earl of Derby. Eleanor Ferrers was the daughter of Matthew de Lovaine, a great grandson himself of Godfrey III, Count of Louvain. King Edward had provided a handsome dowry from her husband's English lands following his death. He had also possessed lands in five counties in Scotland, and Eleanor had come north to collect her rents. Rather than despoliate the land and the castle, Douglas contented himself by abducting Eleanor and removing her to Douglas Castle.

Reaction to the abduction

William Douglas was imprisoned and fined for the abduction, but also granted permission to marry his captive. [8] Eleanor and Douglas were wed soon afterwards. King Edward was not so charmed and ordered the Sheriff of Northumberland to seize all Douglas possessions in that county and to apprehend Douglas and Wishart if the chance arose. Edward also demanded that the Guardians of Scotland immediately arrest Douglas and deliver him and Eleanor to his pleasure. The Guardians did not respond. Douglas was connected to two of the Guardians: James Stewart, 5th High Steward of Scotland was his brother-in-law, and Alexander Comyn, Earl of Buchan was a brother-in-law of Eleanor de Lovaine. Furthermore, the Guardians may not have reacted well to the peremptory nature of the English king's request.

First Imprisonment

However, Douglas seems to have fallen into the hands of the English monarch in early 1290 and was confined at Knaresborough Castle. His imprisonment does not appear to have been unduly harsh, he was released by the spring of 1290 when his wife Eleanor posted bail for his release with four manucaptors in May 1290, these four knights, all her cousins, were John Hastings, 1st Baron Hastings, Nicholas de Segrave, 1st Baron Segrave, William de Rye and Robert Bardulf. He was in favour with Edward again and he and Wishart had their Northumbrian lands restored to them.[9] Eleanor Douglas was fined £100 sterling, and by way of payment had some of her manors in Essex and Herefordshire taken by the crown in 1296.

Build up to War

Douglas' seal is on the Treaty of Salisbury approving the putative marriage between Margaret, Maid of Norway with Edward of Caernarfon, and was amongst those nobles that hammered out the deal that would become the Treaty of Birgham. At Norham, in June 1291, the Guardians accepted King Edward as Lord Paramount of Scotland. Whilst the negotiations were progressing, regarding the choice of the next King of Scots, Edward was staying with Sir Walter de Lindsay at Thurston Manor, near Innerwick, when William Douglas paid an oath of fealty to him in the chapel there. By the end of 1291, Douglas had fallen again into disfavour and had his lands of Douglasdale forfeited to the English King. Edward appointed his own creatures as baronial officers and made one Master Eustace de Bikerton, Parson of St. Bride's Kirk, the spiritual home and burying ground of the Douglases. John Balliol was declared King of Scots on 17 November 1292, and called his first parliament on 10 February 1293. Douglas along with Robert de Brus, Earl of Carrick, Aonghus Mór mac Domhnaill, Lord of Islay, John, Earl of Caithness failed to attend and were proclaimed defaulters. Douglas attended the second parliament of King John, but was imprisoned again for failing to comply with royal officers enforcing a judgement against him, and imprisoning said officers in Douglas Castle. Whilst in prison Douglas was duty bound to be at his lands in Essex, in order to provide service for Edward, his failure cost him £20 sterling in fines.

Siege of Berwick

Upset at the humiliations heaped upon John Balliol and the ineffectiveness of his rule, a new Guardianship was created in 1295. These men concluded a treaty at Paris and ratified it at Dunfermline between the Kingdoms of Scotland, France and Norway, that would become known as the Auld Alliance. Douglas siding with his countrymen, was appointed Governor of Berwick upon Tweed, the most important commercial centre in Scotland at the time. When the Guardians threw down the Gauntlet to Edward, he arrived at the walls of Berwick with 5000 Cavalry and 30,000 Infantry. There followed one of the most brutal episodes in British history, the Sack of Berwick. The English army took the town by storm on Good Friday 1296 and gave no quarter to the inhabitants. The slaughter lasted for two days and the estimated death toll was between 7,500 and 8,500 men women and children. Appalled and after a resolute defence, the garrison of Berwick Castle under the leadership of William Douglas, gave themselves up to the mercy of King Edward. The garrison were freed and were allowed to march out of the castle with their arms, but Douglas was imprisoned and the last of his estates in Essex forfeit. (Douglas' two-year-old son Hugh had been taken into ward by the Sheriff of Essex at Stebbing, one of the forfeited properties)

Ragman Roll

Douglas was imprisoned in the Hog's Tower at Berwick castle and stayed there until gaining his freedom by appending his seal to the Ragman Roll, in common with the majority of the Scots nobility. Within days of his swearing his new oath of Fealty to Edward, Douglas was restored to his lands in Scotland, but not those in England. To add salt to the wound, Douglas' Land at Fawdon and others in Northumberland were made over to his old foe Gilbert de Umfraville, Earl of Angus, Douglas had no reluctance in joining the patriotic party.

The Umfravilles' latterly forfeited Earldom of Angus was granted in 1389 to Douglas' great-grandson, George Douglas, 1st Earl of Angus.

Uprising of William Wallace

Following the Battle of Dunbar, a large section of the Scots nobility were languishing in prison in England. The countryside was fomenting and there was talk of a new champion for the Scots people, William Wallace of Elderslie had started his campaign. Douglas was summoned to attend King Edward in London on 7 July 1297, with fifty other barons to accompany him on an expedition to Flanders to aid Guy of Dampierre, Count of Flanders against Philip le Bel King of France. Douglas refused and joined company with Wallace. Most Scots magnates thought that Wallace was beneath their dignity, but Douglas had no such compunction. He was the first nobleman to join with Sir William Wallace in 1297 in rebellion; combining forces at Sanquhar, Durisdeer and later Scone Abbey where the two liberated the English treasury. With that booty Wallace financed further rebellion. Wallace joined his forces with that of Sir Andrew Moray and together they led the patriot army in the Battle at Stirling Bridge fought on 11 September 1297. They were joined by other patriots such as Robert Wishart Bishop of Glasgow, and the Morays of Bothwell, with a contingent of Douglases at the national muster at Irvine, North Ayrshire.

Bruce raid on Douglas Castle

When Edward heard of Douglas' supposed treason he commanded the future King of Scots Robert Bruce, Earl of Carrick, then governor of Carlisle for the English to take retribution. Bruce swept into Douglasdale at the king's order. However, young Bruce, who was twenty-two years old at the time, stated, "I must join my own people and the nation in which I was born." He then was joined by the men of Douglas and Lady Douglas, proceeding to join the rebels at Irvine.[10]

Capitulation of Irvine

The third time Douglas was held a prisoner of Edward Plantagenet, was after 9 July 1297 when he was accused by Sir Henry de Percy of breaking his covenant of peace with Edward that was agreed to in the document known as the Capitulation at Irving Water, where Douglas was in the company of Robert Brus, Alexander de Lindsay and John and James (the latter three his brothers in law). By the time Sir Andrew de Moray and William Wallace won their great victory at Stirling, Sir William the Hardy was again Edward's prisoner at Berwick Castle; staying in what was now called 'Douglas Tower'.

Death

Following Wallace's success at Stirling Bridge the English fled Berwick on Tweed with Douglas and another Scottish prisoner Thomas de Morham; both were later committed to the Tower of London on 12 October 1297 with Douglas meeting his end there in 1298 due to mistreatment.

Issue

William the Hardy was twice married and had three sons.[11][12]

By Elizabeth, daughter of Alexander Stewart, 4th High Steward of Scotland:

Sir James Douglas.[12]

By Eleanor de Lovaine of Groby, daughter-in-law of William de Ferrers, 5th Earl of Derby and great-great-granddaughter of Godfrey III of Leuven:

Hugh Douglas,[12]

Sir Archibald Douglas.[12]

References

Notes

"Sir William "le Hardi" Douglas, 5th Lord of Douglas". geni_family_tree. Retrieved 11 September 2016.

Fraser, vol I, p. 62

Maxwell, Vol I, p. 21

Fraser, vol I, p73

Fordun, p304

Godscroft,p20

Fraser, vol I, p103

Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. III, p. 145-147

Cal.Doc.Scot. 429, 431

Scott, Ronald McNair, Robert the Bruce, King of the Scots, pp 41–42

Scots Peerage, III, p140

Fraser, vol I, p104

Sources

Brown, Michael, The Black Douglases-War and Lordship in Late Medieval Scotland, East Linton 1998

Fordun, John, Chronica Gentis Scotorum ed. Skene. Edinburgh 1871. [1]

Fraser, Sir William, The Douglas Book IV vols. Edinburgh 1885.[2]

Hume of Godscroft, David, The history of the House and Race of Douglas and Angus, London 1820.[3]

Maxwell, Sir Herbert, A History of the House of Douglas, II Vols. Freemantle, London 1902.

The Scots Peerage, ed. James Balfour Paul, 8 Vols., Edinburgh, D. Douglas, 1904–14.

References:

https://www.geni.com/people/William-Douglas-Lord-of-Douglas/6000000000701222098

https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/9S7W-9LY

https://www.clanmacfarlanegenealogy.info/genealogy/TNGWebsite/getperson.php?personID=I256&tree=CC

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_the_Hardy,_Lord_of_Douglas

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Douglas-112

https://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:William_Douglas_%28148%29

https://gw.geneanet.org/sduggan?lang=en&pz=shayla+nicole&nz=duggan&p=william&n=douglas&oc=15

https://familypedia.wikia.org/wiki/Genealogy_of_the_Clan_Douglas

Excellent Article on the Exploits of William Hardy Douglas and William Wallace:

https://cranntara.scot/wallace.htm

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Grandy's 20x Great-Grandfather:

My 22x Great-Grandfather:

Laila Laemmel-Gordon's 23x Great-Grandfather:

William Longleg, Lord of Douglas (1220 - 1274)

William III Douglas

Sir William "Longlegs" de Douglas

William Douglas Longleg, Lord of Douglas

William Douglas

Also Known As: "Longleg", "Longlegs", "Long legs", "William Long Legs"

Birthdate: circa 1220

Birthplace: [unknown] Castle, Douglas, Lanarkshire, Scotland

Denomination: (probably) Roman Catholic

Title of Nobility: Lord of Douglas

Military Service:

Death: October 16, 1274 in Douglas Castle, Douglas, Lanarkshire, Scotland

Parents:

Archibald Douglas, 2nd Lord of Douglas

1179-1240

Lady Margaret de Crawford

1187-1225

Family 1

Spouse:

Baroness Martha Bruce

1214-1255

Martha of Carrick

Birthdate: circa 1230

Birthplace: Carrick, Galloway, Argyllshire, Scotland

Denomination: (probably) Roman Catholic

Date of Marriage: 1233

Place of Marriage: Lanarkshire, Scotland

Death: circa 1255 in Douglas, Lanarkshire, Scotland

Immediate Family:

Daughter of Donnchadh I mac Gilbert, 1st Earl of Carrick and Avelina FitzAlan, Countess of Carrick

Children:

1. William Le Hardi Douglas 1255–1298

Family 2

Spouse:

Constance Battail of Fawdon

1220-1274

Constance Battail

Birthdate: circa 1220

Birthplace: Fawdon, Castle Ward, Northumberland, England

Denomination: (probably) Roman Catholic

Date of Marriage: 1239

Place of Marriage: Lanarkshire

Death: acirca 1274 in Douglas Castle, Lanarkshire

Immediate Family:

Daughter of William de Batail and Constance de Flamville

Children:

1. Willelma Douglas 1255-1302

2. William “le Hardi” Douglas, Lord of Douglas 1255-1298

3. Hugh Douglas, I 1261-1289

About William Longleg, Lord of Douglas

William, Lord of Douglas (c. 1220 – c. 1274), known as 'Longleg', was a Scottish nobleman. He was the son of Archibald I, Lord of Douglas.

The years of the minority of King Alexander III (1249–1262) featured an embittered struggle for the control of affairs between two rival parties, the one led by the nationalistic Walter Comyn, Earl of Menteith, the other by pro-English Alan Durward, Justiciar of Scotia. The former dominated the early years of Alexander's reign. In 1255 an interview between the English and Scottish kings at Kelso led to Menteith and his party losing to Durward's party. Later both parties called a Meeting of the great Magnates of the Realm to establish a regency until Alexander came of age. William Lord of Douglas was one of the magnates called to witness.[1] Douglas was a partisan of Durward's party. This can be explained by the fact that although most of his territories lay in Douglasdale, through his wife, Constance, he had obtained the rich Manor of Fawdon in Northumberland and it would do well to keep English Royal favour.[2]

David Hume of Godscroft, the arch-panegyricist of the House of Douglas, states that Longleg married Marjorie, Countess of Carrick and had by her two sons and a daughter, the daughter inheriting the Earldom of Carrick. Marjorie went on to marry Robert de Brus, father to King Robert I of Scotland; this, however, does not make any sense historically.

William Longleg, Lord of Douglas (died c. 1274) married Constance Battail of Fawdon, and had two sons and a daughter:[3]

Hugh I, Lord of Douglas (died c. 1274)

William the Hardy, Lord of Douglas (1240–1298)

Willelma de Douglas (d. 1302)

References

Notes

Maxwell, Vol I, p.18

Maxwell, Vol I, p19

Balfour Paul, Vol III, p.137

Sources

Balfour Paul, Sir James -The Scots Peerage IX vols. Edinburgh 1906. [1]

Fraser, Sir William -The Douglas Book IV vols. Edinburgh 1885.[2]

Hume, David -The history of the House and race of Douglas and Angus. London 1820. [3]

Maxwell, Sir Herbert -A History of the House of Douglas II vols. London 1902.

References:

https://www.geni.com/people/William-Longleg-Lord-of-Douglas/6000000000701222114

https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/GC49-CNH

https://www.clanmacfarlanegenealogy.info/genealogy/TNGWebsite/getperson.php?personID=I259&tree=CC

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Longleg,_Lord_of_Douglas

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Douglas-110

https://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:William_Douglas_%2817%29

https://gw.geneanet.org/sduggan?lang=en&pz=shayla+nicole&nz=duggan&p=william&n=douglas&oc=16

https://familypedia.wikia.org/wiki/Genealogy_of_the_Clan_Douglas

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Grandy's 21x Great-Grandfather:

My 23x Great-Grandfather:

Laila Laemmel-Gordon's 24x Great-Grandfather:

Archibald Douglas, 2nd Lord of Douglas (1179 - 1240)

Archibald I, Lord of Douglas

Lord Archibald I Douglas

Sir Archibald Douglas, 2nd Lord of Douglas

Sir Archibald "2nd Laird of Douglas" Douglas

Sir Archibald Douglas, of Hermiston and 2nd of Douglas

Also Known As: "Archibald de Douglas", "Sir Archibald Douglas"

Birthdate: circa 1179

Birthplace: [unknown] Castle, Douglas, Lanarkshire, Scotland

Denomination: (probably) Roman Catholic

Title of Nobility: Lord of Douglas

Death: July 18, 1240 in Douglas, Lanarkshire, Scotland

Place of Burial: Midlothian, Scotland

Parents:

William I, Lord of Douglas

1145-1214

Margaret Kersdale, of Moray

1152-1238

Family

Spouse:

Lady Margaret de Crawford

1187-1225

Margaret Crawford, co-heiress of Crawfordjohn

Margaret Barclay

Birthdate: March 8, 1187

Birthplace: Crawford, Ayrshire, Scotland

Denomination: (probably) Roman Catholic

Death: 1225 in Hermiston, Midlothian, Scotland

Place of Burial: Midlothian, Scotland

Immediate Family:

Daughter of Sir John de Crawford, II and [unknown mother]

Children:

1. William Longleg, Lord of Douglas 1220–1274

2. Sir Andrew Douglas of Hermiston 1225–1277

About Archibald Douglas, 2nd Lord of Douglas

Archibald of Douglas (before 1198 – d.c. 1238) was a Scottish nobleman. He was the son of William of Douglas.

Life

The earliest attestation of his existence is in a charter of confirmation dated prior to 1198. This charter of Jocelin, Bishop of Glasgow, granted the rights of a toft in Glasgow to Melrose Abbey. Archibald's name appears between that of Alan, High Steward of Scotland and Robert de Montgomery. Also before 1198, Archibald appears in another document, again before 1198, in which he resigns the lands of Hailes held by him of the Abbey of Dunfermline, to Robert of Restalrig. Between 1214 and 1226, Archibald acquired the use of the lands of Hermiston and Livingston, with Maol Choluim I, Earl of Fife as his feudal superior.[1] Archibald of Douglas must have been knighted before 1226 as he appears in another charter of Melrose Abbey as 'Dominus de Douglas' witnessing William Purves of Mospennoc granting the Monks of Melrose rights to pass through his lands. Another witness is Andrew, Archibald's knight which highlights his influential position.[2] Archibald de Douglas appears as a signatory to several royal charters following 1226, and he appears to have spent a considerable time in Moray as episcopal charters of his brother Bricius de Douglas show. He was in the retinue of the King Alexander II, at Selkirk, in 1238 when the title Earl of Lennox was regranted to Maol Domhnaich of Lennox. Douglas disappears from historical record after 1239 and it is presumed that he died about this time.

Marriage and issue

Archibald of Douglas is thought to have married Margaret, daughter of Sir John Crawford of Crawfordjohn and had issue:

William of Douglas (c.1220–c.1274)

Andrew Douglas of Hermiston, progenitor of the Lords of Dalkeith & Earls of Morton and Lords of Mains.

References

Notes

Reg. Morton vol i p. xxxiii-iv

Liber de Melros, voli, pp214-215

Sources

Registrum Honoris de Morton, ed. Thomson, MacDonald, Innes. Bannatyne Club, Edinburgh 1853.[1]

Liber Sancte Marie de Melros: munimenta vetustiora Monasterii Cisterciensis de Melros, ed. Innes. Bannatyne Club, Edinburgh 1837. [2]

Maxwell, Sir Herbert. A History of the House of Douglas. London 1902

Balfour Paul, Sir James. The Scots Peerage IX Vols. Edinburgh 1907

Fraser, Sir William. The Douglas Book IV Vols. Edinburgh 1885

References:

https://www.geni.com/people/Archibald-Douglas-2nd-Lord-of-Douglas/6000000025053394921

https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/GCNF-CX8

https://www.clanmacfarlanegenealogy.info/genealogy/TNGWebsite/getperson.php?personID=I260&tree=CC

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archibald_I,_Lord_of_Douglas

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Douglas-402

https://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:Archibald_De_Douglas_%281%29

https://gw.geneanet.org/sduggan?lang=en&pz=shayla+nicole&nz=duggan&p=archibald&n=douglas&oc=9

https://familypedia.wikia.org/wiki/Genealogy_of_the_Clan_Douglas

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Grandy's 22x Great-Grandfather:

My 24x Great-Grandfather:

Laila Laemmel-Gordon's 25x Great-Grandfather:

Enigmatic origins

The origins of William are uncertain, the first of the name of Douglas to appear on historic record. He appears as witness to a charter of Jocelin, Bishop of Glasgow in 1174 in favour of the monks of Kelso Abbey, at which time he was in possession of the Lands of Douglas.[1] It seems he was the son of Theobald le Fleming (born 1120, Aldingham Manor, Lancashire, England died 1193, Douglasdale, Midlothian, Scotland).

Sholto/William

David Hume of Godscroft in his history refers to the progenitor of the House of Douglas, Sholto. Gleaned from the works of Buchanan and Boece, Godscroft's narrative explains that during the reign of a King Solvathius, Sholto Douglas was instrumental in putting down an uprising by a usurper Donald Bain in 767AD, and as reward was granted the lands that would after be called Douglas.[2]

Both Balfour Paul and Maxwell agree that this origin tale is mythic, but do contest that William of Douglas was active at the time of the real rebellion of the Meic Uilleim, under their chief Domnall mac Uilleim. The earlier historians may have confused the mythic Donald Bain with Domnall Bán mac Domnaill, the penultimate Meic Uilleim chief.

This may be corroborated by the facts that the lands of Douglas marched with those of the leader of King William I of Scotland's retaliatory forces, Lochlann, Lord of Galloway. William may well have been a vassal of the Lord of Galloway. Furthermore, all of William's sons with the exception of the eldest were to hold privileged ecclesiastic positions within the former Meic Uilleim territories in Moray.

Although William de Douglas was the first known owner of Douglasdale, holding that land between 1174 and 1213, there is no reason to doubt that his father was “Theobaldo Flamatico” or Theobald the Fleming. The family’s arms indicate the kinship with Murray and a descent like that of Brodie and Innes, from a third son of the house of Boulogne. In Flanders there was a family of the Theobalds who were hereditary castellans of Ypres between about 1060 and 1127, after which their history becomes obscure. Theobald’s lands in Scotland were granted to him soon after 1150 by the Abbot of Kelso. William de Douglas, the heir, having married the sister of Friskin de Kerdale or Freskin of Moray, had by her six sons; the five younger of them all went to Moray to support their uncle there and his own heir, Archenbald, stayed in Lanarkshire to inherit the Douglas estates. Archenbald married a daughter of Sir John Crawford.

Issue

William of Douglas may have married Margaret, a sister of Freskin of Kerdal, a Flemish laird from Moray.[3] He had issue:

Archibald I (1166-1213), Lord of Douglas, married Margaret, daughter of Sir John Crawford of Crawford

Bricius de Douglas (ca. 1195-1222), Bishop of Moray

Alexander de Douglas (ca. 1195-1238), a canon of Spynie, vicar capitular of Elgin

Henry de Douglas (ca. 1195-1245), a canon of Spynie

Hugh de Douglas (ca. 1171-1245), a canon of Spynie, Archdeacon of Moray

Freskin de Douglas (1205-September 1232), parson of Douglas, later Dean of Moray

Margaret de Douglas (1177-1260), married Hervey de Keith, Marischal of Scotland[4]

References

Notes

Liber de Calchou, p346

Godscroft, pp. 4-6

Fraser, vol I, p.37

Fraser, vol I, p.43

Sources

Liber S. Marie de Calchou, Registrum Cartarum Abbacie Tironensis de Kelso ii vols, ed. Innes. Bannatyne Club. Edinburgh 1846. [1]

Balfour Paul, Sir James, Scots Peerage IX vols. Edinburgh 1907

Fraser, Sir William. The Douglas Book IV Vols. Edinburgh 1885

Hume of Godscroft, David, A History of the House and Race of Douglas and Angus. London 1820 [2]

Maxwell, Sir Herbert, A History of the House of Douglas II vols. London 1902 [3]

Stirnet: Douglas01

References:

https://www.geni.com/people/William-I-Lord-of-Douglas/6000000000701222146

https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/GCV6-YDR

https://www.clanmacfarlanegenealogy.info/genealogy/TNGWebsite/getperson.php?personID=I264&tree=CC

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_I,_Lord_of_Douglas

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Douglas-108

https://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:William_Douglas_%2818%29

https://gw.geneanet.org/sduggan?lang=en&pz=shayla+nicole&nz=duggan&p=william&n=douglas&oc=17

https://familypedia.wikia.org/wiki/Genealogy_of_the_Clan_Douglas

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[unproven]

Grandy's 23x Great-Grandfather:

My 25x Great-Grandfather:

Laila Laemmel-Gordon's 26x Great-Grandfather:

Theobald le Fleming (1120 - 1193)

Also Known As: "Theobald leFleming"

Birthdate: 1120

Birthplace: Aldingham Manor, Lancashire, England

Denomination: (probably) Roman Catholic

Death: 1193 in Douglasdale, Hermiston, Midlothian, Scotland

Parents:

Sir Michael le Fleming

1085-1154

[unknown] de Stuteville

1090-

Family

Spouse:

Kersdale de Moravia

1132-

Also Known As: "de Moray", "kersdale /Demoravia/", "/deMoravia/", "12754"

Birthdate: circa 1132

Birthplace: Elgin, Moray, Scotland

Denomination: (probably) Roman Catholic

Death: [date unknown] in Scotland

Immediate Family:

Daughter of William de Moravia and [mother unknown]

Children:

1. William I, Lord of Douglas 1145–1214

About Theobald le Fleming

Sir Michael Flameng or Flandrensis (ie. "Flemish" in Latin ) or Furnes (derived from property owned by the family at F urness, Lancs); flourishing 1127; ancestor of the Fleming l ine, Baronets of Rydal Hall, Westmorland. [Burke's Peerage]

Reference: Fleming-3 WikiTree Genealogy - SmartCopy: Jan 4 2016, 9:26:29 UTC

http://www.montyhistnotes.com/genealogy/getperson.php?personID=I4479&tree=MontyHistNotes_II

Theobald Le Fleming Born 1120 Aldingham Manor/Lancashire, England Died 1193 Hermiston, Midlothian, Scotland

Father Michael Fleming, b. 1085, Caernarvon Castle/Becermont, Cumberland, England , d. 1150, Aldingham Manor/Lancashire, England Mother Daughter Robert de Stuteville, b. 1088, Aldingham Manor/Lancashire, England , d. Aldingham Manor/Lancashire, England Relationship natural Married 1115 Caernarfon, Caernarvonshire, Wales

Family Kersdale de Moray, b. 1175, Elgin, Moray, Scotland

Children + 1. William Douglas, b. 1145, Douglasdale/Hermiston, Midlothian, Scotland , d. 1213, Douglas, Lanarkshire, Scotland

http://foxstanleydeansproudfamily.org/webtrees/individual.php?pid=I2059&ged=Fox%20Stanley%20Swift%20Deans%20Proud%20Family

http://fabpedigree.com/s032/f700288.htm

http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=er1357&id=I6000000003827855955

References:

https://www.geni.com/people/Theobald-le-Fleming/6000000003827855955

https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/G4VG-Y5Y

Arms of Douglas:

http://wappenwiki.org/index.php/House_of_Douglas

http://wappenwiki.org/index.php/House_Douglas_of_Angus

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Douglas History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms

The Douglas Motto

The motto was originally a war cry or slogan. Mottoes first began to be shown with arms in the 14th and 15th centuries, but were not in general use until the 17th century. Thus the oldest coats of arms generally do not include a motto. Mottoes seldom form part of the grant of arms: Under most heraldic authorities, a motto is an optional component of the coat of arms, and can be added to or changed at will; many families have chosen not to display a motto.

Motto: Jamais arriere

Motto Translation: Never behind

Douglas Clan Tartan (Modern) Douglas Clan Tartan (Ancient)

Douglas Clan Tartan (Hunting) Douglas Clan Tartan (Ancient Dress)

There are many different Douglas tartans:

http://www.douglashistory.co.uk/history/articles/Tartans.html#.YG3ipuhKjIU

Early Origins of the Douglas family

The ancient Pictish-Scottish family that first used the name Douglas lived in Moray, where the family has a long and distinguished history dating back to early times. Some claim the name is derived from a knight of 770 who after aiding King Solvathius of Scotland in his great battle with Donald Bain, King of the Western Isles was granted the lands of Clydesdale. Others claim the name was originally derived from Theobaldus, a Flemming and were granted the lands of Douglas Water. In Gaelic, the name is Dudhglas means "black stream."

The surname Douglas was first found in Moray, where the progenitor of the Clan is thought to be Archibald of Douglasdale (1198-1239). The Douglasses of Drumlanrig claim descent from Sir William Douglas, who was granted the lands of Drumlanrig in 1412 by King James I.

The grandson of Archibald Douglasdale, known as William the Hardy, served as a companion-in-arms to William Wallace, the patriot leader of the Scottish wars of Independence. His two sons carried on his noble reputation. The first, William, was the progenitor of the Douglases of Morton and was granted the Earldom of Morton in 1458 by King James II. The second, Andrew, and his family became known as the Black Douglases.

Early History of the Douglas Family

This is a family which became, next to the Royal House of Stewart, the most powerful and influential dynasty in Scotland. The first of the name to be recorded is William de Douglas, who lived in the 12th century and witnessed a Charter by the Bishop of Glasgow, and a second Charter from William the Lion, around the year 1200. In 1263, two sons of Sir William de Douglas fought for Alexander III against the Norse at the Battle of Largs.

Having been held prisoner by the English, William Douglas, Governor of Berwick, was a follower of Sir William Wallace in the ongoing conflict for Scottish independence. Sir James 'The Good' Douglas, son of William and Founder of the Black Douglas Dynasty, was a supporter of Robert the Bruce and was knighted on the eve of the Battle of Bannockburn. It was he who led the group of nobles who carried the Bruce's heart on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. He was killed at the Battle of Teba in Spain in 1330.

Sir James's younger brother, Sir Archibald, was Guardian of the Realm in the minority of David II, and Sir James's nephew, Sir William, was created 1st Earl of Douglas in 1358. The 2nd Earl of Douglas married Isabel Stewart, daughter of Robert II, and died at the Battle of Otterburn in 1388. He left no legitimate male heir, and his natural sons, William and Archibald, became the ancestors of the families of Douglas of Drumlanrig and Douglas of Cavers. Meanwhile, the earldom and entailed estates of Douglas reverted to Archibald "The Grim " Douglas, cousin of the 1st Earl. Archibald, 4th Earl of Douglas, married Margaret Stewart, James I's sister, and on the King's death became Lieutenant General of the Kingdom. He fought against the English in France and in 1424, was made Duke of Touraine. Both he and his son were killed in that country at the Battle of Verneuil in August 1424.

By this stage, however, the seemingly limitless power of the Douglas family in Scotland was causing concern to supporters of their Stewart cousins. In 1440, the young 6th Earl of Douglas and his brother were invited to dine with the 10-year-old James II at Edinburgh Castle, whereupon they were accused of treason and executed. Twelve years later, the 8th Earl was invited to Stirling Castle by the King and he too was murdered.

Another of Sir James 'The Good' Douglas's nephews was George, 1st Earl of Angus, founder of the Red Douglas Dynasty. In 1397, he married Mary Stewart, daughter of Robert III. In 1482, Archibald, 5th Earl of Angus, achieved notoriety for murdering the favourites of James II in an incident at Lauder, thereafter earning himself the title of 'Bell the Cat.' He was subsequently was appointed Lord Chancellor of Scotland, and his grandson, the 6th Earl of Angus, became Guardian of James V, when he married the King's mother, Queen Margaret, widow of James IV. Their daughter was Lady Margaret Douglas, who married the Earl of Lennox. Their grandson, Lord Darnley, married Mary Queen of Scots and was the father of James VI of Scotland, I of England.

William, 11th Earl of Angus, a loyal supporter of Charles I, and was created Marquis of Douglas in 1633 by Charles II. Archibald, 3rd Marquis, was created Duke of Douglas in 1703, but having no children, the marquisate and earldom devolved to the Duke of Hamilton, while the Douglas estates, following the notorious Douglas Cause law suit, passed to his nephew and heir of line, Archibald Steuart, to whom the armorial bearings and Douglas Chiefship were awarded by Lyon Decree in 1771. Archibald was created Lord Douglas of Douglas in 1790, but on the death of the 4th Lord Douglas in 1857, the estates devolved upon Lady Elizabeth Douglas, Countess of Home, whose descendants carry the feudal Barony of Douglas.

The earldom of Morton was created in 1456 for James Douglas, Lord of Dalkeith, sharing a common ancestry with the earls of Douglas. James, 4th Earl of Morton (c1516 – 81), was Chancellor to Mary Queen of Scots, but dismissed for his role in the murder of the Queen's secretary, David Rizzio. He was Regent from 1572, but later executed for having had foreknowledge of the murder of Lord Darnley.

John Douglas (1494-1574) was born in Pittenweem and, in 1572, became the first Protestant Archibishop of St Andrews. David Douglas (1798-1834) was born in Perthshire and, in his extensive travels as a botanist, gave his name to the Douglas Spruce. He was killed by a wild bull in the Sandwich Islands. Sir William Douglas Bt. (d.1809) amassed a fortune trading with Virginia, USA, and had the town of Carlingwark erected into a Burgh of Barony as Castle Douglas. Sir William Fettes Douglas (1822-91), himself an accomplished painter, was Curator of the National Gallery of Scotland.

Places of Interest

Blackhouse Tower, on the Douglas Burn of the Yarrow Water, Selkirkshire. Stronghold of Sir James 'The Good' Douglas, friend of Robert the Bruce. Today a ruin.

Hermitage Castle, Newcastleton, Roxburghshire. Fourteenth century stronghold of Douglas family; later owned by Earl of Bothwell.

Drochil Castle, near Biggar, Lanarkshire. Built for the Regent Morton in 1570. Now a ruin.

Drumlanrig, Thornhill, Dumfriesshire. Lands confirmed on the Douglas family in 1412 by James I. Douglas of Drumlanrig rose to become Duke of Queensberry, but on the death of the 3rd Duke, the ducal title passed to the earls of March and, in 1810, to the dukes of Buccleuch.

Threave Castle, Castle Douglas, Dumfriesshire. Built during 14th century by Archibald 'The Grim', 3rd Earl of Douglas, Lord of Galloway.

Aberdour Castle, Aberdour, Fife. Fourteenth century castle held by Douglas earls of Morton. Accidentally burned in 18th century.

Tantallon Castle, North Berwick, East Lothian. An almost impregnable cliff-top castle held by Douglas earls of Angus. Oliver Cromwell's General Monck was the first to take Tantallon in 1651 after twelve days of bombardment. It fell into decay in 1699, but is now in the care of Historic Scotland.

Loch Leven Castle, Loch Leven, Kinross. Property of Sir William Douglas of Loch Leven when Mary Queen of Scots was held prisoner here 1567-68.

Bothwell Castle, between Bothwell and Uddingston, South Lanarkshire. This mighty thirteenth century Moray stronghold was rebuilt by the Black Douglases. The magnificent Douglas constructed great hall and chapel survive to this day. Bothwell castle is now cared for by Historic Scotland.

Associated Family Names (Septs)

Cant, Cavers, Dick, Dickey, Dickie, Douglass, Drysdale, Forest, Forrest, Glendinning, Inglis, Kirkpatrick, Lockerby, MacGuffie, MacGuffock, Morton, Sandilands.

Surname distribution in Scotland: The Douglas surname is most commonly found in Highland (Caithness, Inverness-shire, Nairnshire, Ross and Cromarty, Sutherland and small areas of Argyllshire and Morayshire), the Scottish Borders (Berwickshire, Peeblesshire, Roxburghshire, Selkirkshire and part of Midlothian) and Dumfries and Galloway (Dumfriesshire, Kirkcudbrightshire and Wigtownshire).

Douglas Spelling Variations

The arts of spelling and translation were yet in their infancies when surnames began, so there are an enormous number of spelling variations of the names in early Scottish records. This is a particular problem with Scottish names because of the numerous times a name might have been loosely translated to English from Gaelic and back. Douglas has been spelled Douglas, Douglass, Dougliss, Dougless, Dowglas, Duglas, Duglass and many more.

Douglas Settlers in United States in the 17th Century

Hugh Douglas, who settled in Virginia in 1635

Archeball Douglas, who arrived in Virginia in 1652

John Douglas, who settled in Virginia in 1655

Lee William Douglas, who settled in Virginia in 1655

John Douglas, who arrived in Virginia in 1655

Douglas Settlers in United States in the 18th Century

Cha Douglas, who landed in Virginia in 1703

Alexander Douglas, who landed in South Carolina in 1750

John Douglas, who arrived in America in 1760-1763

Adam Douglas, who arrived in Pennsylvania in 1765

Alex'r Douglas, who arrived in South Carolina in 1772

Battles involving the Douglases

http://www.douglashistory.co.uk/history/Battles/Battles.htm#.YHFPtOhKjIV

Genealogy of the Clan Douglas

https://familypedia.wikia.org/wiki/Genealogy_of_the_Clan_Douglas

Clan Douglas

https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Clan_Douglas

House of Douglas: Coat of Arms

http://wappenwiki.org/index.php/House_of_Douglas

House Douglas of Angus

Cadet branch of the House of Douglas

http://wappenwiki.org/index.php/House_Douglas_of_Angus

Douglas Biographies: Early Douglases

http://www.douglashistory.co.uk/history/Biogs/Biographies2.htm

William I, Lord of Douglas (b.b.1174–c.1213)

Archibald I, Lord of Douglas (d.c.1240)

William Longlegs, Lord of Douglas (c.1220–c.1274)

William 'The Hardy', Lord of Douglas (c.1240–1298) Died captive in the Tower of London

James 'The Good', Lord of Douglas (c.1290–1330) Killed at the Battle of Teba

William IV, Lord of Douglas (d.1333) Killed at the Battle of Halidon Hill

Archibald Douglas, Regent of Scotland (d.1333) Killed at the Battle of Halidon Hill. Archibald was succeeded by his son, William Douglas, 1st Earl of Douglas (below).

Hugh the Dull, Lord of Douglas (resigned Lordship 1342 d. afterward)

William, Lord of Douglas (1327–1384) Created first Earl 1358.

Following the death of the 2nd Earl at the Battle of Otterburn in 1388 without legitimate issue, the Earldom passed to a bastard son of 'The Good Sir James', the poetically named Archibald the Grim, the Lord of Galloway. This occurred through articles of special entail in the resignation of title by Hugh the Dull, Lord of Douglas. George Douglas, 1st Earl of Angus the bastard son of the 1st Earl by his sister-in law Margaret Stewart, Dowager Countess of Mar & Countess of Angus, inherited his mother's Earldom of Angus. Retrospectively the two branches of Douglas and Angus were described as the Black and Red lines respectively.

The Black Douglases fell from power and were attainted by King James II in 1455. The seventh Earl was created Earl of Avondale and Lord Balveny in 1437, also in the Peerage of Scotland. These titles also became forfeit in 1455.

The title of Douglas was restored in 1633 for the 'Red' Douglas line, when William Douglas, 11th Earl of Angus (1589–1660), was created First Marquess of Douglas by Charles I.

Black Douglases

William Douglas, 1st Earl of Douglas (1327–1384)

James Douglas, 2nd Earl of Douglas (1358–1388), killed at the Battle of Otterburn

Archibald Douglas, Lord of Galloway, 3rd Earl of Douglas (1325–1400) "the Grim", Bastard cousin of the 1st Earl, created Earl of Wigtown 1372

Archibald Douglas, 4th Earl of Douglas (1370–1424) Duke of Touraine, killed at the Battle of Verneuil

Archibald Douglas, 5th Earl of Douglas (1390–1439), son of the above

William Douglas, 6th Earl of Douglas (1426–1440) , Murdered at the Black dinner at Edinburgh Castle

James Douglas, 7th Earl of Douglas (d.1443) "the Gross" created Earl of Avondale in 1437, murderer and great-uncle of above.

William Douglas, 8th Earl of Douglas and 2nd Earl of Avondale (1425–1452), Murdered by James II of Scotland at Stirling Castle.

James Douglas, 9th Earl of Douglas and 3rd Earl of Avondale (d.1488), the last "Black Douglas", brother of the previous, attainted 1455 and all his titles forfeit.

Red Douglases

George Douglas, 1st Earl of Angus (1378–1402)

William Douglas, 2nd Earl of Angus (c. 1398–1437)

James Douglas, 3rd Earl of Angus (b. 1428–1446)

George Douglas, 4th Earl of Angus (b. 1429–1462)

Archibald Douglas, 5th Earl of Angus (1453–1514)

George Douglas, Master of Angus (1469–1513)

Archibald Douglas, 6th Earl of Angus (1490–1557)

David Douglas, 7th Earl of Angus (c. 1515–1558)

Archibald Douglas, 8th Earl of Angus (1556–1588)

William Douglas, 9th Earl of Angus (1533–1591)

William Douglas, 10th Earl of Angus (1552–1611)

William Douglas, 11th Earl of Angus (1590–1660), (created Marquess of Douglas in 1633, when he resigned the earldom, which was re-granted with the marquessate)

William Douglas, 1st Marquis of Douglas (1590–1660)

James Douglas, 2nd Marquis of Douglas (1646–1700)

James Douglas, Earl of Angus (1671–1692)

Archibald Douglas, 1st Duke of Douglas (1694–1761) (created Duke of Douglas in 1703) (dukedom extinct on his death, earldom and marquessate inherited by James George Hamilton, 7th Duke of Hamilton)

The Douglas Earls of Morton family are descended from the second son of Archibald of Douglas (fl 1198-1239), second Lord of Douglas, through the Douglas families of Liddelsdale and Dalkeith. Sir James Douglas, 1st Lord Dalkeith, was granted a charter of the Barony of Morton (Morton is a small holding in East Calder, West Lothian.) in 1381/1382 and his grandson, James Douglas (d c 1493), was created Earl of Morton in 1457/1458. The line continued through the Douglas of Lochleven line - neither Red nor Black.

Earl of Douglas

https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Earl_of_Douglas

Earls of Douglas

http://www.douglashistory.co.uk/history/families/earls_of_douglas.html#.YG__hehKjIU

The Good Sir James's nephew William, Lord of Douglas was created 1st Earl of Douglas in 1358, and greatly increased Douglas territory by marrying Margaret, Countess of Mar. The creation of the Earldom can be accurately dated to 26 January that year, because of a charter witnessed by Douglas on the 25 January where he is described as "William, Lord of Douglas, Knight", and another of the 27th of the month as the Earl of Douglas. The power of Douglas was further increased by the marriage of the 2nd Earl to Princess Isabel, daughter to Robert III of Scotland. The acme of Douglas territorial power came when Archibald the Grim, Lord of Galloway a bastard son of the Good Sir James inherited the Earldom following the 2nd Earl's death at the Battle of Otterburn. "Black Archibald" as he was also known, was by right of conquest Lord of Galloway; and by right of his wife, the Moray heiress Joanna de Moravia, the Lord of Bothwell and its vast entail. Already one of the largest landowners in the realm, Archibald the Grim was now the greatest Tenant-in-chief of the Scottish Crown.

William, the 1st Earl, Archibald the Grim and both his son the 4th Earl and grandson, the 5th Earl fought in France as well as the along the Anglo-Scottish Border, during what would become known as the Hundred Years War. The 1st Earl and the 3rd were both present at the Battle of Poitiers, and the future 5th Earl Archibald, Earl of Wigtown was a deputy of John Stewart, Earl of Buchan at the Battle of Baugé and elsewhere. Archibald Douglas, 4th Earl of Douglas, had fought at Homildon Hill, was captured there and then joined the rebel Northern English Barons to fight at Battle of Shrewsbury where he was again captured. It was during this episode of his life that Douglas makes an appearance as one of the characters in William Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part 1. In 1423 Douglas's son Wigtown, returned to Scotland to raise more troops for the French war and managed to enlist his father's support, the 4th Earl sailed for France with an army some 6500 strong, was created Duke of Touraine and Lieutenant General of France by a grateful Dauphin. Douglas was killed at Battle of Verneuil in 1424. The 5th Earl of Douglas upon his accession was sometime regent of Scotland during the minority of James II of Scotland and Lieutenant-General of Scotland. The 5th Earl's sons, the sixteen-year-old William Douglas, 6th Earl of Douglas and his brother David Douglas, were to be victim to the cabal of Sir William Crichton, Sir Alexander Livingston of Callendar, and their great uncle James Douglas, Earl of Avondale who wished to break the power of the Black Douglases. The boys were summoned to Edinburgh Castle, and where at what is known as the 'Black Dinner' the Earl and his brother were taken into the Castleyard and executed before the young King.

• William Douglas, 1st Earl of Douglas (1327–1384)

• James Douglas, 2nd Earl of Douglas (1358–1388), killed at the Battle of Otterburn

• Archibald Douglas, Lord of Galloway, 3rd Earl of Douglas (1325–1400) "the Grim", Bastard cousin of the 1st Earl, created Earl of Wigtown[9] 1372

• Archibald Douglas, 4th Earl of Douglas (1370–1424) Duke of Touraine, killed at the Battle of Verneuil

• Archibald Douglas, 5th Earl of Douglas (1390–1439), son of the above

• William Douglas, 6th Earl of Douglas (1426–1440), Murdered at the Black Dinner at Edinburgh Castle

• James Douglas, 7th Earl of Douglas (died 1443) "the Gross" created Earl of Avondale in 1437, murderer and great-uncle of above.

• William Douglas, 8th Earl of Douglas and 2nd Earl of Avondale (1425–1452), Murdered by James II of Scotland at Stirling Castle.

• James Douglas, 9th Earl of Douglas and 3rd Earl of Avondale (died 1488), the last "Black Douglas", brother of the previous, attainted 1455 and all his titles forfeit.

Lordship of Douglas, and other estates and title devolved upon: George Douglas, 4th Earl of Angus

House of Douglas

Lords and Earls of Douglas

Heart of King Robert the Bruce that James Douglas attempted to take to the Holy Land for burial added in 1330.

House of Douglas Earls of Douglas and Mar

Arms of William Douglas, 2nd Earl of Angus

House Douglas of Angus Lords of Pittendreich Lords Abernathy, Bonkyll, Preston and Jedburgh Earls of Angus and Morton Marquesses of Douglas

Arms of George Douglas, 4th Earl of Angus