DOUGLAS, William

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• Name	DOUGLAS, William
  Birth	2 Mar 1330	Douglas Castle, Lanarkshire, Scotland
  Christening	1 Jan 1348	Maybole, Ayrshire, Scotland
  Gender	Male
  Burial	May 1384	Melrose Abbey, Douglas, Lanarkshire, Scotland
  Death	1 May 1384	Castle Douglas, Lanarkshire, Scotland
  WAC	31 Aug 1924
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  Person ID	I45493	Joseph Smith Sr and Lucy Mack Smith
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  Father	DOUGLAS, Knight Archibald II ,   b. Abt 1270, Douglas, Lanarkshire, Scotland Douglas, Lanarkshire, Scotlandd. 19 Jul 1333, Berwick-Upon-Tweed, Northumberland, England (Age 63 years)
  Mother	LINDSEY, Beatrice de ,   b. 1 Sep 1291, Crawford, Lanarkshire, Scotland Crawford, Lanarkshire, Scotlandd. 2 May 1352, Erskine, Renfrewshire, Scotland (Age 60 years)
  Marriage	Abt 1320
  Family ID	F23847	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	MAR, Margaret ,   b. 1332, Somerset, England Somerset, Englandd. 19 Oct 1393, Castle Cary, Cadbury, Somerset, England (Age 61 years)
  Marriage	Somerset, England
  Children	+ 1. DOUGLAS, Muriel ,   b. 1287, Somerset, England Somerset, Englandd. 18 Feb 1317, Castle Cary, Somerset, England (Age 30 years)
  Family ID	F23797	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	24 Jan 2022

  
  

  Family 2	STEWART, Countess Margaret ,   b. Abt 1325, Innermeath, Perthshire, Scotland Innermeath, Perthshire, Scotlandd. 23 Mar 1417, Angus, Scotland (Age 92 years)
  Children	1. DOUGLAS, Earl George ,   b. 4 Jul 1376, Mar, Aberdeen, Scotland Mar, Aberdeen, Scotlandd. 1421, Battle of Homildon Hill, Lanacashire, England (Age 44 years)
  Family ID	F23846	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	24 Jan 2022

  
  

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  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 from the English. Later he took part in the negotiations for the ransom and release of David II. In 1354 he succeeded to the estates of his father and uncle and to the lands of his kinsman, William Douglas, Knight of Liddesdale, whom he had slain. Douglas engaged in French-incited raids on the English border and fought (1356) for the French in the battle of Poitiers. In 1358, he was made Earl of Douglas, and after the accession of Robert II he was made justiciar S of the Forth and received the lands of the Earl of Fife. At the death of his wife's brother in 1374, he received the lands and title of the Earl of Mar. Douglas had an illegitimate son by Margaret Stuart, countess of Angus in her own right. This was George Douglas, who became 1st Earl of Angus.