Eleanor Douglas - Countess of Carrick

• Preferred Name: Eleanor Douglas - Countess of Carrick^[1]
  
• Gender: F
  
• http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: Lady
  
• LdsBaptism: 5 JUN 1936 with note: GEDCOM data
  
• Death: 1380 in East Lothian, Scotland at LATI: N5.9167 LONG: E2.75 with note: GEDCOM data
  
• LdsEndowment: 10 JUN 1937 with note: GEDCOM data
  
• Sealed+to+child+(LDS): 3 DEC 1970 in SLAKE at LATI: N0.6256 LONG: E111.8756 with note: GEDCOM data
  
• Occupation: Countess of Carrick
  
• MARR: BET 1339 AND 1340 with note: GEDCOM data
  
• FSID: L6SQ-452
  
• Birth: 1325 in Douglas, Lanarkshire, Scotland at LATI: N5.5573 LONG: E3.8475
  
• Marriages: with note: Description: Eleanor really did have 5 husbands. All of these are correct
  
• Burial: 1380 in Melrose, Scottish Borders, Scotland, United Kindom at LATI: N5.5833 LONG: E2.7167
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  1 - Eleanor is sometimes identified as a Bruce because she was a Countess of Carrick. That probably arose because she continued to be know as Countess of Carrick after her first marriage which was to Alexander Bruce, Earl of Carrick.
  
  2 - Eleanora, daughter of Archibald Douglas of that Ilk, by his wife Dornagilla, daughter of John Comyn of Badenoch ; her brother was William, first Earl of Douglas and Mar. Her first husband was Alexander Bruce, eighth Earl of Carrick, second son of Edward Bruce, King of Ireland and nephew of King Robert I. The earl fell at the battle of Halidon Hill in 1333.
  She married, secondly, Sir James Sandilands of Calder, ancestor of the Barons of Torphichen. Her third husband was William Towers, who received a charter of the lands of Dalry, in the county of Edinburgh. Sir Duncan Wallace was her fourth husband; she survived him, and married as her fifth consort Sir Patrick Hepburn of Hailes.
  [The book of Wallace by Rev. Charles Rogers pub.1889]
  
  Life Sketch
  Eleanor married five times in her lifetime:
  (1) first, probably when very young, to Alexander Bruce, Earl of Carrick, son of Edward Bruce, brother of King Robert. He was killed at Halidon Hill.
  (2) She married, secondly, about 1340, Sir James Sandilands of Sandilands, with whom she had two sons. Sir James died before 1358, and there is reason to believe his widow
  (3) married, thirdly, before 1364, Sir William Towers of Dalry.
  (4) Before 1368, she married, fourthly, Sir Duncan Wallace of Sundrum, and
  (5) in 1376 she had a dispensation to marry her fifth husband, Sir Patrick Hepburn of Hailes, ancestor of the Earls of Bothwell
  
  === !#21-v3-p57; #189-v2-p437; !only sis of ===
  !#21-v3-p57; #189-v2-p437; !only sis of William, 1st Earl of Douglas; marr 3rd> bef 1364 (probably bef 1361); `title> Countess of Carrick; ^marr 5th-L1> dispensation of;
  
  === 1349 (Sir) James/Sandilands (Sir) Willia ===
  1349 (Sir) James/Sandilands (Sir) William/Towers (Sir Duncan/Wallace 1376 (Sir) Patrick/Hepburne
  
  === Relationship to N. G. Utting note ===
  Eighteenth Great Grandmother : Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Grandmother
  
  === 2 James/Sandilands (Sir) 1349, 3 William ===
  2 James/Sandilands (Sir) 1349, 3 William/Towers (Sir), 4 Duncan/Wallace (Sir), 5 Patrick/Hepburne (Sir) 1376
  
  === (Sir) Alexander/Bruce, (Sir) William/Tow ===
  (Sir) Alexander/Bruce, (Sir) William/Towers, (Sir) Duncan/Wallace, (Sir) Patrick/Hepburne 1376
  
  === AFN: Information about wife, received f ===
  AFN: Information about wife, received from the book "WIlliam Wallace - Brave Heart", page 170.

• m. ABT 1358 in Scotland

• m. 15 APR 1376 in Badenoch, Inverness-shire, Scotland

1. John Lauder, b. APR 1385 in Bass Rock, N Berwick, Elot, Scotland     d. JUN 1421 in North Berwick, East Lothian, Scotland or Newcastle Upon Tyne, Northumberland, England

1. Title: Lady Eleanor de DOUGLAS Of Douglas
   Author: Source: THE SCOTS PEERAGE, ed. by Sir James Balfour Paul, Vol III, Edinburgh, 1906, pp. 140-42.
   Publication: Name: http://www.venitap.com/Genealogy/WebCards/ps34/ps34_420.htm;