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| Name |
William Douglas [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7] |
| Title |
6th Earl of Douglas |
| Birth |
1423 |
Whittinghame, East Lothian, Scotland  [3, 7] |
| Gender |
Male |
| Title |
Duke of Touraine |
| Burial |
1440 |
Lanarkshire, Scotland [3] |
- St Bride's Kirk, Douglas, South Lanarkshire
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| Death |
24 Nov 1440 |
Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland [3, 5, 7] |
- Executed; Murdered by Uncle James Edinburgh Castle Black Dinner
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| Notes |
- William Douglas, 6th Earl of Douglas
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
William Douglas
Earl of Douglas
Arms of the 6th Earl of Douglas
Titles Duke of Touraine(de jure)
Earl of Wigtown
Lord of Galloway
Lord of Bothwell, Selkirk and Ettrick Forest, Eskdale, Lauderdale, Liddesdale and Annandale
Count of Longueville (de jure)
Seigneur de Dun-le-Roi (de jure)
Born 1424
Birthplace Scotland
Died 1440
Place of death murdered at Edinburgh Castle
Buried St Bride's Kirk Douglas, South Lanarkshire
Predecessor Archibald Douglas, 5th Earl of Douglas
Successor James Douglas, 7th Earl of Douglas
Dynasty Douglas
Father Archibald Douglas, 5th Earl of Douglas
Mother Euphemia Graham
William Douglas (c. 1424 - 24 November 1440) was a short-lived Scottish Nobleman. He was Earl of Douglas and Wigtown, Lord of Galloway, Lord of Bothwell, Selkirk and Ettrick Forest, Eskdale, Lauderdale, and Annandale in Scotland, and de jure Duke of Touraine, Count of Longueville, and Sire of Dun-le-roi in France. He was the eldest son of Archibald Douglas, 5th Earl of Douglas and Eupheme Graham.
He married Janet Lindsay, daughter of David Lindsay, 3rd Earl of Crawford, and succeeded to the earldom on the death of his father, who had served as regent of James II. Following Douglas' death, Sir William Crichton, Sir Alexander Livingston of Callendar, and James Douglas, Earl of Avondale shared power. Together they conspired to break the power of the late Earl's family, and summoned William and his younger brother David to Edinburgh. The so-called 'Black Dinner' which followed saw the two boys summarily beheaded on trumped up charges, in the presence of the young King.
The lordships of Annandale and Bothwell fell to the crown, Galloway to Margaret Douglas, the 6th Earl's sister, and the Douglas lands and earldom passed to William's great-uncle James Douglas, the Earl of Avondale, who was accordingly seen later as the main perpetrator.
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| Person ID |
I2797 |
MontyHistNotes_II |
| Last Modified |
16 Mar 2024 |
| Father |
2nd Duke of Touraine Archibald Douglas, b. 1390, Douglas, Lanarkshire, Scotland d. 26 Jun 1439, Restalrig, Midlothian, Scotland (Age 49 years) |
| Relationship |
natural |
| Mother |
Euphemia Graham, b. 1408, Perthshire, Scotland d. Oct 1468, Hamilton, Lanarkshire, Scotland (Age 60 years) |
| Relationship |
natural |
| Marriage |
Bef 26 Apr 1425 |
Perth, Perthshire, Scotland [6] |
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| Family ID |
F1241 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family |
Janet Lindsay, b. 1433, Crawford, Lanarkshire, Scotland d. 1483, Ardross, Fifeshire, Scotland (Age 50 years) |
| Marriage |
1440 |
| Family ID |
F1255 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
16 Mar 2024 |
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| Sources |
- [S405] David Lindsay, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Lindsay,_1st_Earl_of_Crawford.
- [S406] David Lindsay III, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Lindsay,_3rd_Earl_of_Crawford.
- [S404] Bio Information William Douglas, (Name: Wikipedia; Location: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Douglas,_6th_Earl_of_Douglas;), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Douglas,_6th_Earl_of_Douglas.
- [S323] thePeerage.com, Lindsay Janet #021670 http://thepeerage.com/p2167.htm#i21670.
- [S323] thePeerage.com, Listing of British Peerage.
- [S782] The Douglas Archives, (Name: The Douglas Archives; Location: http://www.douglashistory.co.uk/famgen/index.php;), Douglas Archibald http://www.douglashistory.co.uk/famgen/getperson.php?personID=I266562&tree=tree1.
- [S516] Ancestry.com, Dictionary of National Biography, Volumes 1-20, 22, (Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. This collection was indexed by Ancestry World Archives Project contributors.Original data - Stephen, Sir Leslie, ed. Dictionary of National Biography, 1921–1922. London, England: Oxf;).
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