William Douglas 1st Earl Of Douglas

• Preferred Name: William Douglas 1st Earl Of Douglas^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5]}
  
• Gender: M
  
• http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: First Earl of Douglas1327 in Douglas, Lanarkshire, Scotland at LATI: N5.5573 LONG: E3.8475
  
• Title (Nobility): with note: Description: 1st Earl of Angus
  
• Cause+of+Death: with note: (killed by Sir David Barclay of Brechin)
  
• Death: 1 MAY 1384 in Douglas, Lanarkshire, Scotland at LATI: N5.5573 LONG: E3.8475
  
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• Birth: 1327 in Douglas, Lanarkshire, Scotland at LATI: N5.5573 LONG: E3.8475
  
• Sealed+to+child+(LDS): 3 DEC 1970 in SLAKE at LATI: N0.6256 LONG: E111.8756
  
• http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: Earl of Mar
  
• Burial: 1384 in Melrose Abbey, Scotland, United Kingdom at LATI: N5.5988 LONG: E2.7177
  
• LdsEndowment: in PROVO
  
• Info 6: with note: Description: See Burke's Peerage under "Queensbury"
  
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• Christening: 1 JAN 1348 in Maybole, Ayrshire, Scotland at LATI: N5.3333 LONG: E4.7
  
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  === Life Sketch ===
  21st Great Grandfather
  
  William Douglas, 1st Earl of Douglas (c.1323 – 1 May 1384) was a Scottish nobleman, peer, and magnate.
  Contents
  1 Early life
  2 Death of the Knight of Liddesdale
  3 War with England and Battle of Poitiers
  4 Earl of Douglas and Mar
  5 Marriage and Issue
  6 References
  6.1 Notes
  6.2 Sources
  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.[1] 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.[2] 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.[3] 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.[4]
  
  Douglas next became one of the commissioners to negotiate with the English for the release of David II of Scotland.[5]
  
  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.[6] 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.[7] 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.[8][9]
  
  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 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, and following the sinking of his fleet, and 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.[10][11] Following Edward's retreat into England, Douglas arranged a truce with William de Bohun, 1st Earl of Northampton that would last until Michaelmas.[12]
  
  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".[13] 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.[14][15]
  
  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.[16] Douglas was part of the parliament that met at Berwick in 1357, which finalised the release of King David through the Treaty of Berwick, Douglas himself being one of the securities for his release.[17]
  
  Earl of Douglas and Mar
  Douglas was created Earl of Douglas on 26 January 1358.[18][19] To reflect his new-found status, he built Tantallon Castle, a Medieval castle surrounded by a curtain wall.[20] The castle became the home of Douglas' sister-in-law and mistress, Margaret Stewart, 4th Countess of Angus,[21] 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.[22] 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.[23]
  He is also said to have been the father of another illegitimate daughter, Joan Douglas, who married William Dacre, 5th Baron Dacre.[24]
  
  References
  Notes
  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
  
  William 1st Earl of Douglas and Mar
  William, 1st Earl of Douglas and Mar, 1327?–1384, Scottish nobleman; nephew of Sir James de Douglas, lord of Douglas.
  
  About 1348 he returned to Scotland from France and recaptured the Douglas lands
  
  Britannica
  The son of Sir Archibald Douglas (d. 1333), regent of Scotland, who was killed at the Battle of Halidon Hill, he was educated in France and returned to Scotland in 1348. He killed his kinsman and godf
  
  Wikipedia Children
  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
  
  My Maternal 17th. Great Grandfather, Sir William Douglas, 1st. Earl of Douglas
  Name: Sir William Douglas, 1st. Earl of Douglas
  Born: April 1323​ in Douglas, Lanarkshire, Scotland ​
  Marriage: 1357 in Scotland to Margaret de Mar, Countess of Angus and Mar
  Children: (9)
  Jean Dougl
  
  My Maternal 17th. Great Grandmother, Lady Margaret de Mar, Countess of Angus and Mar
  Name: Lady Margaret de Mar, Countess of Angus and Mar
  Born: 1328 in Abercorn, Linlithgowshire, Scotland
  Married: 1357 in Scotland to Sir William Douglas, 1st. Earl of Douglas
  Children: (9)
  Jean Dougla
  
  My Maternal 17th. Great Grandmother, Lady Margaret de Mar, Countess of Angus and Mar
  Name: Lady Margaret de Mar, Countess of Angus and Mar
  Born: 1328 in Abercorn, Linlithgowshire, Scotland
  Married: 1357 in Scotland to Sir William Douglas, 1st. Earl of Douglas
  Children: (9)
  Jean Dougla
  
  === Family info ===
  Family:
  
  Son of Sir Archibald 'The Tyneman' Douglas and Beatrice Lindsay of Crawford
  Husband of Margaret of Mar, Countess of Mar
  Partner of Lady Margaret Stewart, 4th Countess of Angus, Lady Abernethy (suo iure)
  Father of George Douglas, 1st Earl of Angus; Jean Rutherford; James Douglas, 2nd Earl of Douglas and Mar; Isabel Douglas, Countess of Mar & Lady of Garioch and Joan Dacre
  Brother of Eleanor Douglas and John Douglas
  Half brother of Mary Erskine; Nicholas Erskine; Thomas Erskine, 13th Earl of Mar; Jean Erskine and Marion Erskine
  
  === SIR WILLIAM DOUGLAS, of Douglas, 2nd but ===
  SIR WILLIAM DOUGLAS, of Douglas, 2nd but only surviving son of Sir Archibald Douglas, REGENT OF SCOTLAND (April to July 1333), by Beatrice, daughter of Sir Alexander LINDSAY, of Crawford, having by the resignation of his uncle, Hugh Douglas, the26 May 1342 (confirmed by the King), obtained the vast estates of the Douglas family (formerly held by the well-known Sir James Douglas, "the Good," slain in Spain, 25 August 1330, elder brother of Hugh and Archibald, attained full age about 1348, distinguished himself (1346-56) against the English in Scotland; slew his kinsman, William Douglas, "the Knight of Liddesdale," in August 1353, and was wounded 19 September 1356, at the Battle of Poitiers. He was present at the Parliament held at Edinburgh, 20 September 1357, and was one of the eight nobles of whom three were to place themselves in the hands of the English on the release of David II. He was, shortly afterwards, created, 26 January 1357/8, EARL OF DOUGLAS [SCT]. He attended the Coronation of Robert II at Scone, 26 March 1371; was Warden of the Marches, obtaining several successes against the English, and bringing Teviotdale into perfect subjection. He married, probably shortly before 13 November 1357 (when she is mentioned in a Charter of David II], Margaret, only daughter of Donald, Earl of mar [SCT], by Isabel STEWART, which Margaret, by the death of her brother, Earl Thomas, between 22 October 1373 and 21 June 1374, became suo jure COUNTESS OF MAR [SCT]. The Earl, her husband (as early as 21 June 1374), assumed in her right that Earldom in addition to his own. He died in May 1384, after a short illness, at Douglas, and was buried at Melrose. His widow married, as his 1st wife, between 1385 and 27 July 1388, Sir John SWINTON, of Swinton, who after the death of his stepson, Earl James, in 1388, is styled "Lord of Mar." She was living 5 December 1389, and, apparently, 18 March 1390/1, but died s.p.m.s., before 22 November 1393. Sir John Swinton died 14 September 1402. [Complete Peerage VI:430-1]
  
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  William Douglas, who succeeded to the estates of Douglas under his uncle's entail of 1342, was, as already stated, the second son of Sir Archibald Douglas, the Regent, and only lawful heir-male of the 'good Sir James.' The date of his birth is not certain, but he was a minor in 1342, and a ward of his godfather Sir William Douglas, the Knight of Liddesdale. The earliest notices of him state that he was educated in France, and bred to arms in that country, and there seems no doubt that his earlier years were spent there. He returned to Scotland in or about 1348, probably at his majority, as he threw himself at once inot the tide of events, gathering together a band of followers from Ettrick or Jedburgh Forest, where he was gladly welcomed by the people.
  
  William Douglas first appears in political life in 1351, as a commissioner to arrange the temporary release of King David II from his captivity in England; which mission was successful, and he accompanied the King to Scotland. Lord Hailes, mistaking his share in the negotiations, has attributed to him the treacherous league with England, which was really made by his namesake, the Knight of Liddesdale. But the Lord of Douglas, although he did visit England early in 1353, had nothing to do with such unpatirotic schemes. On the other hand he, in the same year, devoted himself to reducing the Anglicised Scots to their true allegiance, and made a descent on Galloway, overawing the chiefs, and compelling or treating with them to take oaths of featy to their proper sovereign. In this policy Douglas was imitated by others, and thus Nithsdale and Annandale also were wrested from the English. August of the same year, 1353, saw the tragic death of the 'Knight of Liddesdale' by the hand of his godson. Ballad lore ascribes this event ot jealousy, and relates how the 'Countesse of Douglas' wept for her slain lover, but in 1353 Douglas was not Earl, and he was not then married, notwithstanding Godscroft's statements on the point. It has also been stated that discovery of the Knight of Liddesdale's treason was the cause of his death, but it does not appear that his treason was known. Douglas hasa further been credited with a desire to revenge the deaths of Sir Alexander Ramsay and Sir David Barclay. This is doubtful, and the true reason of the Knight's death was probably, as Sir William Fraser suggests, a quarrel between the two Douglases on the score of property. This is the view taken by Fordun, a contemporary historian, and is borne out by charter and other evidence. Liddesdale had belonged to Sir Archibald Douglas, but after his death his claim was set aside. The Knight of LIddesdale, however, secured the territory for himself in 1342. The younger Douglas probably resented this. In any case, on 12 February 1353, or 12 February 1354, he received a charter from King David II, granting to him, first, all or most of the lands which had belonged to the late Sir James, his uncle, and also all the lands which had belonged to his own father, the late Sir Archibald, the lands of LIddesdale being specially named. If, therefore, this charter preceded the Knight's death, the quarrel is easily explained; and if it followed that event, Douglas's eagerness to take possession equally justifies Fordun's opinion.
  
  In 1356 Douglas succeeded in harassing a large army with which Edward III had been devastating Scotland with more than usual fury, to such an extent that the English were compelled to retire, and Douglas, on his own account, concluded with the English Warden a six months' truce from April 1356, of which he took advantage to visit the captive Scottish King, and then to go to France. There he was well received by King John, who conferred on him the rank of knighthood, and he fought at the battle of Poitiers, so bravely that he would probably have been made prisoner had he not been dragged out of the fray by his own attendants. This battle, fought on 19 September 1356, tended to aid the proposals for truce, and the peace comprehended England, Scotland, Ireland, and a part of France. Douglas was one of the Wardens appointed to keep the truce, though it was nearly endangered by his seizing the castle of Hermitage, in revenge, apparently, for an English raid on Eskdale.
  
  Sir William Douglas was present at the Parliament of Scotland in September 1357, when a truce was arranged, and the liberation of David II decided upon. In the followin January, probably on the 26th, he was created Earl of Douglas. The date has been stated to be 4 Febraury 1358, but there is evidence that it was earlier, and that the dignity was conferred during the sitting of the General Council, held at Edinburgh from 20 to 28 January 1357-58. He was one of the hostages for King David, and passed frequently fo and from England, accompanied apparently at intervals by his Countess, to whom he was married in 1357. During the next few years the chief record of the Earl's doings is found in charters witnessed or granted by him, but these need not be particularised, except to note that one extensive gift of land to the monks of Melrose, part of which was for the soul of the 'Knight of Liddesdae,' comprehended several farms now included in the ground recently acquired near Hawick for a military camp. About 1360 he acted as a Justiciar, and was also made Sheriff of Lanark.
  
  In 1363 there was a rupture between King David and his three principal nobles, the High Steward, the Earls of March and of Douglas, who complained, not without reason, that the money raised by the country to pay the King's ransom was squandered in an improper manner. King David had previously, in 1359, given ground for offence in another way by bestowing the Scottish earldom of Moray on an alien, Henry, Duke of Lancaster, although curiously enough Douglas and the Steward were both witnesses to the transaction, which took place at Dundee 5 April 1359. But the above reason was a matter which touched Douglas more closely, as he was one of the sureties to the English Government for payment of the yearly instalments of the ransom. He was the first to take up arms to put matters right, but, perhaps because he was unsupported, his rebellion suddenly collapsed, and he appears to have suddenly turned round and consented to a policy which, had it been successful, would have made Scotland a mere appanage of England. The terms of the policy were embodied in a proposed treaty, which may be read in the records of the Scottish Parliament of March 1364, by whom it was rejected. One provision related to Douglas, namely, that he should be restored to the estates in England to which his father and uncle had right, or receive the equivalent. There can be little doubt, though the evidence was unknown to Sir William Fraser, who questions the fact, that Douglas was in attendance on King David II in London in November 1363, when the treaty was rejected, but a second was drawn up and submitted to the Scottish Parliament, and although it settled part of Galloway on a younger son of Edward III and restored the disinherited lords, it was accepted for the sake of peace, on condition of a complete remission of the ransom money. Douglas affixed his seal to the Act and swore to observe it. He was not named in the second treaty, but it is unfortunate that in the first he appears as if bribed to throw over the High Steward, who had been his friend. It has been suggested that he acted as he did from a far-seeing belief that the actual union of the two kingdoms was the only way to a lasting peace, but his true motives must remain obscure, as materials are wanting to a right judgment.
  
  In 1369 a peace was arranged with England for fourteen years, and Douglas with others swore to keep the truce inviolate. In the following year the Earl by a formal writ renounced all rights and all lands he had by any right in the barony of Dalkeith, in favour of Mary Douglas, the n

1. George Douglas 1st Earl of Angus, b. 1376 in Tantallon Castle, North Berwick, East Lothian, Scotland     d. 14 SEP 1402 in Battle, Berkshire, England, United Kingdom

• m. 1357 in Douglas, Lanarkshire, Scotland

1. Margaret Douglas - Lady of Terregles, b. 1369 in Mar Castle, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, United Kingdom     d. 14 FEB 1425 in Douglas Castle, Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom

1. Title: The complete peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant
   Author: Cokayne, George E. (George Edward), 1825-1911 (Main Author) Gibbs, Vicary (Added Author) London, England : St. Catherine Press, 1910-1998 14 v. in 15 : geneal. tables.
   Publication: Name: https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/271412?availability=Family%20History%20Library;
   Note: 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. 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.[24] They had two children: James Douglas, 2nd Earl of Douglas (1358–1388) Lady Isabel Douglas, Countess of Mar (1360–1408)
   Page: Talks about children and names his parents
   
2. Title: Wikipedia
   Publication: Name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Douglas,_1st_Earl_of_Douglas;
   
3. Title: Douglas of Lockleven
   Author: Douglashistory.co.uk
   Publication: Name: http://www.douglashistory.co.uk/history/families/douglas_of_lochleven.htm;
   Note: Sir William's son, Archibald Douglas of Glenbervie, married Lady Agnes Keith, daughter of William, 2nd Earl Marischal, who bore the subject of this memoir about 1532, the only son among nine daughters. On St. Valentine's Day, 1552, William was contracted in marriage to Egidia or Gelis Graham, daughter of Robert Graham of Morphie,- and the marriage was celebrated shortly afterwards. Like the rest of his house, he was a Protestant, and fought in the battle of Corrichie, where the Earl of Huntly, head of the Romish faction, was slain in 1562. In 1570 he succeeded to Glenbervie on his father's death, and five years later he was retoured heir to his grandfather. Sir William, who perished at Flodden in 1513. He took little part after this in public affairs, both he and his wife being invalids, as appears from a licence granted to them in 1578 by King James to eat flesh in Lent " als oft as thai pleis," by reason that they were " subiect to seiknes and diseiss of body." * Ten years later, when the Sth earl lay dying at Smeaton, he sent twice for the laird of Glenbervie to confer with him about the succession. Glenbervie's eldest son was a Roman Catholic, a sore distress to his father, all the more so because Angus seemed disposed to alter the succession upon that account. But the dying earl, though a staunch Presbyterian, and deeply concerned for the establishment of that form of religion in Scotland, was of too liberal a spirit to cause any man to suffer for his honest opinion : therefore, after questioning Glenbervie's son closely about the grounds of his faith, he declared that he would not meddle with the existing entail, made in 1547, whereby he had devised the earldom of Angus to Glenbervie, and the earldom of Morton to Douglas of Lochleven. Lochleven ceased to be a royal castle in 1390 when Robert II granted it to Sir Henry Douglas, the husband of his niece, Marjory. The Douglases already had an association with the castle for Henry's father, Sir John Douglas, had been among the garrison during the 1335 siege. The Douglases remained lords of the island stronghold up to the seventeenth century. John Douglas of Dalkeith d bef 1356 Henry, dc 1392, married Marjory Stewart William, c 1392-1421 Henry, 1421-c 1469 Robert, c 1469-1513 Robert, 1513-c 1540 (Thomas, d bef 1540) Robert, c 1540-1547 William, 1547-1606, who became 6th Earl of Morton (Robert, dc 1600) William. 7th Earl of Morton, 1606-1648 Robert, 8th Earl of Morton, 1648-1649 William, 9th Earl of Morton, 1649-1681, who sold Lochleven Castle in 1672 1. Sir Henry Douglas of Lugton & Lochleven + Marjory Stewart of Ralston d: 1438 2 Sir William Douglas of Lochleven d: 1421 + Elizabeth Lindsay of Crawford 3 Sir Henry Douglas of Lochleven d: AFT. 1469 + Elizabeth Erskine 4 Sir Robert Douglas of Lochleven d: 9 SEP 1513 + Elizabeth Boswell 5 Sir Robert Douglas of Lochleven + Margaret Balfour + Margaret Hay of Erroll b: ABT. 1453 6 Thomas Douglas + Elizabeth Boyd 7 Sir Robert Douglas of Lochleven d: 10 SEP 1547 + Margaret Erskine of Mar d: 5 MAY 1572 8 William Douglas, 6th Earl of Morton b: 1540 d: 27 SEP 1606 + Agnes Leslie of Rothes James Douglas of Lochleven was Commendator of Melrose Abbey 1569-1620
   
4. Title: Dictionary of National Biography, Volumes 1-20, 22
   Author: London, England: Oxford University Press; Volume: Vol 05; Page: 1200
   Publication: Name: https://search.ancestry.com/collections/1981/records/10019356;
   
5. Title: The Douglas Book IV vol. 1
   Author: Fraser, Sir William, The Douglas Book IV vols. Edinburgh. 1885 Fraser, Vol.I, pp.290-91
   Publication: Name: https://digital.nls.uk/histories-of-scottish-families/archive/96805358;
   Note: The Earl of Douglas also fathered two illegitimate children by Margaret Stewart, the widow of Thomas, Earl of Mar, who had been Douglas's brother-in-law. She was also 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.