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	DOUGLAS - LoveToKnow Article on DOUGLAS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		DOUGLAS, EARLS OF Barbour's Bruce> are familiar from Scott's Tales of a Grandfather and Castle Dangerous.
		By the failure of heirs in the elder branches of the family the dukes of Hamilton (q.v.) became heirs-male of the house of Douglas.
		The heir-presumptive to the Douglas estates was his sister, Lady Jane Douglas (1698-1753), who in 1746 secretly married Colonel, afterwards Sir, John Steuart of Grandtully, by whom she had twin sons, born in Paris in 1748.
	27.1911encyclopedia.org /D/DO/DOUGLAS.htm (2275 words)

	James Douglas, 4th Earl of Morton - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		On the death of the earl of Mar (October 28, 1572), Morton, who had been the most powerful noble during this regency, and also during that of the earl of Lennox, at last reached the object of his ambition by being elected regent.
		The powerful earl of Argyll and Atholl, a Stuart and Roman Catholic, united with Alexander Erskine, governor of Stirling, who now had the custody of the young king, and others in a league which received so much support that Morton bent before the storm and offered to resign.
		In 1586, however, the attainder was rescinded in favour of Archibald Douglas, 8th Earl of Angus, a nephew of the 4th earl.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/James_Douglas,_4th_Earl_of_Morton (875 words)

	Thomas Douglas, 5th Earl of Selkirk - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Thomas Douglas was the seventh son of a Scottish Earl.
		Douglas asked the British government for a land grant in the Red River Valley, which is a part of Rupert's Land.
		However Douglas was very determined, and he and Sir Alexander Mackenzie bought enough shares in HBC to let them gain control of the land.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Thomas_Douglas,_5th_Earl_of_Selkirk (335 words)

	The Battle of Otterburn. How Sir Henry Percy and His Brother with a Good Number of Men of Arms and Archers Went after ...
		There began a cruel battle and at the first encounter many were overthrown of both parties; and because the Englishmen were a great number and greatly desired to vanguish their enemies, and rested at their pace 1 and greatly did put aback the Scots, so that the Scots were near discomfited.
		There were two valiant knights of Scots under the banner of the earl Douglas, called sir Patrick of Hepbourn and sir Patrick his son.
		They acquitted themselves that day valiantly: the earl’s banner had been won, an they had not been: they defended it so valiantly and in the rescuing thereof did such feats of arms, that it was greatly to their recommendation and to their heirs’ for ever after.
	www.bartleby.com /35/1/402.html (611 words)

	The Douglases
		Douglas, to whom the command of the vanguard was assigned, fought with his usual bravery and put the enemy to flight; but he and his companions, pursuing the fugitives too eagerly, were separated from the main body of the Spanish army.
		Douglas, meanwhile, unsuspicious of treachery or fraud, was engaged on the shore in victualling his ships, when he perceived the approach of this strong body from Dundalk, and the inhabitants of Carlingford at the same time sallying out from the town to assist them in the assault upon his men.
		Earl James, burning with resentment at the foul murder of his brother, now entered into a treasonable correspondence with the English Government, which was at this time in the hands of the Yorkists, and promised to swear allegiance to the English King as his lawful sovereign.
	www.electricscotland.com /webclans/families/douglases.htm (10550 words)

	Drysdale/Douglas Family History
		Under the leadership of Archibald "The Grim", 3rd Earl of Douglas, the illegitimate son of Sir James "The Good", the Douglases gained the Lordship of Galloway and, through marriage to Joanna Murray, the family possessions of the Murrays of Bothwell.
		Douglas was captured and mercifully released by the victor.
		The 8th Earl proved to be the hero in the Scot's burning of Alnwick and Warkworth in retaliation for English aggression.
	charm.www5.50megs.com /drysdale/drysdale.html (2555 words)

	Douglas
		The surname Douglas is territorial, from the wild pastoral dale possessed by William de Douglas.
		She was the married to the Earl of Lennox and through their son, Henry Lord Darnley, husband of Mary, Queen of Scots, (in some countries better known as Maria Stuart), James VI.
		The estates devolved on the heir-female who was as a Representator of the House of Douglas awarded the arms of Douglas of Douglas, and was later created Lord Douglas of Douglas, and awarded the chief Arms of the House of Douglas whose daughter and eventual senior co-heiress married the 11th Earl of Home.
	www.fortunecity.com /bally/leitrim/147/douglas.html (853 words)

	The Battle of Otterburn. How the Earl James Douglas by His Valiantness Encouraged His Men, Who Were Reculed and in a ...
		Thus, as I have said, the banners of Douglas and Percy and their men were met each other, envious who should win the honour of that journey.
		The Englishmen knew well they had borne one down to the earth, but they wist not who it was; for if they had known that it had been the earl Douglas, they had been thereof so joyful and so proud that the victory had been theirs.
		Thus as the earl Douglas was felled to the earth, he was stricken into the head with an axe, and another stroke through the thigh: the Englishmen passed forth and took no heed of him: they thought none otherwise but that they had slain a man of arms.
	www.bartleby.com /35/1/403.html (394 words)

	The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition: Douglas, Archibald, 8th earl of Angus @ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		DOUGLAS, ARCHIBALD, 8TH EARL OF ANGUS [Douglas, Archibald, 8th earl of Angus] 1555-88, Scottish nobleman; grandnephew of Archibald Douglas, 6th earl of Angus.
		During the regency (1572-78) of his uncle, James Douglas, 4th earl of Morton, he held a number of important positions, but when Morton fell in 1581, Angus was declared guilty of treason and escaped to England.
		As an ardent Presbyterian, he opposed James Stuart, earl of Arran, and in 1584 after an unsuccessful attempt to remove Arran from power, Angus again fled to England.
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1E1:DouglA8A&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf (176 words)

	JAMES DOUGLAS, 4TH EARL OF MORTON - LoveToKnow Article on JAMES DOUGLAS, 4TH EARL OF MORTON (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		In 1586, however, the attainder was rescinded in favor of Archibald Douglas, 8th earl of Angus (q.v.), a nephew of the 4th earl.
		By the 4th earls will he succeeded in 1588 to the earPdom of Morton, on the death of Archibald, 8th earl of Angus; but Lord Maxwells title of Morton, which had been revoked in 1585, was revived in 1587 and 1592, so that both men were in possession, and a conflict arose.
		Among later earls of Morton mention may be made of James (1702-1768), 14th earl (or, as sometimes numbered, 16th), who became president of the Royal Society (1764), and wasa distinguished patron of science, and particularly of astronomy.
	www.1911ency.org /M/MO/MORTON_JAMES_DOUGLAS_4TH_EARL_OF.htm (1058 words)

	Scots Members of the French Nobility
		James Hamilton, 2nd earl of Arran, was regent of Scotland during the minority of Mary Queen of Scots (he was in fact heir presumptive, being her second cousin through his grandmother, and next in line for the throne).
		The earl, as regent, was the kingpin: he was finally persuaded by the French to sign a treaty with them for the marriage of François and Mary.
		The earl of Arran spent a lot of time trying to regain the revenues of his duchy, but his efforts were rebuked: once, during an interview with the king of France, his attempt to bring up the topic of the duchy was abruptly cut short.
	www.heraldica.org /topics/france/scotfr.htm (6246 words)

	Otterburn or Chevy Chase
		Douglas, with this comparatively small force, crossed the mountainous borders of England, and issued forth near Newcastle, slaying, plundering, burning, and loading his army with spoil, as was the manner of these Border wars.
		Douglas and Hotspur encountered each other hand to hand, and it chanced that Douglas, during the struggle, got possession of Hotspur's spear, to the end of which was attached a small flag embroidered with pearls, on which was emblazoned a lion, the cognizance of the house of Percy.
		Douglas, himself shouting his war-cry, rushed forward, clearing a road with blows from his battle-axe, and bursting into the thickest of the fight.
	www.mspong.org /picturesque/otterburn.html (1240 words)

	Wm. Douglas brief bio
		Douglas served as an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court, the longest time served on record.
		When he succeeded Justice Louis Brandeis on the Supreme Court, Douglas was thought to be pro-business, but he became known for his absolutist interpretation of the guarantees of freedom in the Bill of Rights.
		Often in dissent in the years before the more liberal court led by Chief Justice Earl Warren, Douglas faced impeachment charges, or formal charges of official misconduct, in the early 1950s, when he granted a stay of execution to Julius and Ethel Rosenberg who had been convicted of passing atomic secrets to the Soviet Union.
	www.writing.upenn.edu /~afilreis/50s/douglas-bio.html (362 words)

	Douglas, Archibald, 4th earl of Douglas
		Douglas, Archibald, 4th earl of Douglas, 1369–1424, Scottish nobleman, called Tyneman [loser]; 2d son of Archibald Douglas, 3d earl of Douglas.
		From 1412 to 1422, Douglas continued his border warfare against England and was a member of several delegations of Scottish nobles who tried, unsuccessfully, to ransom their young king,
		In 1424 the allies were defeated at Verneuil, and Douglas was slain.
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/people/A0815964.html (222 words)

	CHAPTER XXXVII.
		Earl Douglas was killed in the fight, and Sir Henry Percy, called Hotspur, was taken prisoner.
		The sons of the earl of Northumberland, from their great courage, were always the first at the barriers, where many valiant deeds were done with lances hand to hand.
		The English imagined the army under the earl of Douglas to be only the van of the Scots, and that the main body was behind; for which reason those knights who had the most experience in arms, and were best acquainted with war–like affairs, strongly opposed the proposal of Sir Henry Percy to pursue them.
	etext.library.adelaide.edu.au /b/bulfinch/thomas/b93chi/chap37.html (2669 words)

	Chapter DOUGLAS <i>to</i> Dowsabel of D by Brewer's Readers Handbook
		Tineman (the loser), Archibald fourth earl, who lost the battles of Homildon, Shrewsbury, and Verneuil, in the last of which he was killed (1424).
		Archibald Douglas, sixth earl of Angus, and grandson of “Bell-the-Cat.” James Bothwell, one of the family, forms the most interesting part of Scott’s Lady of the Lake.
		James Douglas, earl of Morton, younger brother of the seventh earl of Angus.
	www.bibliomania.com /2/3/174/1114/14654/1.html (433 words)

	Thomas Douglas, 5th earl of Selkirk -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Thomas Sackville, the 1st earl of Dorset, and an English statesman, poet, and dramatist, is remembered largely for his share in two achievements of significance in the development of Elizabethan poetry and drama: the collection Mirror for Magistrates (1563), probably the most important work between the periods of Geoffrey Chaucer and Edmund Spenser, and the...
		Douglas Haig was born on June 19, 1861, in Edinburgh, Scotland.
		As chief justice of the United States Supreme Court from 1953 to 1969, Earl Warren presided during a period of sweeping changes in United States constitutional law, especially in the areas of race relations, criminal procedure, and legislative apportionment.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9066692 (788 words)

	Morton, James Douglas, 4th earl of
		A nephew of Archibald Douglas, 6th earl of Angus, he married Elizabeth Douglas, from whose father he inherited (1553) the earldom of Morton.
		Douglas, Archibald, 8th earl of Angus - Douglas, Archibald, 8th earl of Angus, 1555–88, Scottish nobleman; grandnephew of Archibald...
		Mar, John Erskine, 2d (or 7th) earl of - Mar, John Erskine, 2d (or 7th) earl of, 1558–1634, Scottish nobleman; son of the 1st (or 6th)...
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/people/A0834136.html (356 words)

	Douglas, William, 1st earl of Douglas and Mar
		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.
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/people/A0815981.html (333 words)

	Henry Percy (AKA Harry Hotspur) was born on the 20th of May 1366 at Alnwick Castle
		This was a slight on Earl Percy’s watchfulness.
		Douglas was keener to scrap with Hotspur in chivalrous combat than to dwell on strategy and he soon challenged Hotspur to single combat, which was accepted.
		When the George Dunbar the Scottish Earl of March was banished from Scotland by the mighty Douglas on treason he fled to Alnwick and the Percies refused to surrender him staring another round of bitter border clashes that led to outright war.
	www.geocities.com /percyfamilyhistory/hotspur2.html (5012 words)

	Genealogy
		Although there is little doubt that William of CT was related to the Clan Douglas of Scotland, the ancestry in LDS is incorrect.
		This book states that Elizabeth DOUGLAS (1592-?), wife of John INNES was the daughter of Archibald and Elizabeth (SUTHERLAND) DOUGLAS, granddaughter of James DOUGLAS, 4th Earl of Morton.
		Ancestry: Grandson of Archibald and Janet (Phillen) Douglas of Dunfermline.
	racingstation.com /genealogy/douglas.asp (3425 words)

	Douglas, William, 6th earl of Douglas on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Douglas, William, 6th earl of Douglas on Encyclopedia.com
		DOUGLAS, WILLIAM, 6TH EARL OF DOUGLAS [Douglas, William, 6th earl of Douglas] 1423?-1440, Scottish nobleman, eldest son of Archibald Douglas, 5th earl of Douglas.
		Now the earldom passed to James Douglas, son of Archibald Douglas, 3d earl of Douglas, and Galloway went to Margaret, sister of the 6th earl, who eventually married William Douglas, 8th earl.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/d/douglw16ed1.asp (345 words)

	The Black Douglas (1899) by S.R. Crockett
		But William Douglas, though little more than a boy if men's ages are to be counted by years, was yet a true child of Archibald the Grim, and he passed through the mysterious encampment to the door of the lighted pavilion with a carriage at once firm and assured.
		Earl William examined it in the flicker of the lamp.
		Malise was vanquished, less by the sarcasm of the Earl than by the fear that perhaps the Highlandman might indeed have his place of honour as chief military expert by his master's right hand at the examination of weapons that day on the green holms of Balmaghie.
	www.geocities.com /edwindrood.geo/BDougXAB.htm (13927 words)

	Threave Castle, Kirkudbright, Dumfriesshire, Scotland
		Archibald's father, Sir James Douglas, "The Good", had been entrusted with taking Robert the Bruce's heart to the Jerusalem, but had been killed in Spain fighting the Moors (and Bruce's heart was brought back to Scotland and buried at Melrose Abbey).
		Archibald, 5th Earl of Douglas, was appointed Regent.
		James's Parliament replied by stating that; "the Earl was guilty of his own death by resisting the King's gentle persuasion".
	www.aboutscotland.com /threave/castle.html (823 words)

	Robert Earl DOUGLAS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Robert Earl DOUGLAS was born on 21 Jul 1959.
		Christopher Paul DOUGLAS was born on 22 Jun 1978.
		Jennifer DOUGLAS was born on 15 Sep 1981.
	web.tampabay.rr.com /hudson/d27.htm (77 words)

	Haig, Douglas Haig,Earl -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia
		In World War I he won fame as the commander of the British 1st Army (1914–15), and in December 1915 he succeeded Sir John French as commander of the British forces in France.
		Douglas, William O. For more than 36 years William O. Douglas served as an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court, the longest time served on record.
		Known as a champion of civil liberties and the rights of minorities, he was also a naturalist who wrote on conservation as well as history, politics, and foreign relations.
	www.britannica.com /ebi/article-9311560?tocId=9311560 (768 words)

	Trenches on the Web - Bio: First Earl Douglas Haig
		Douglas Haig was born on June 19 1861, the son of a wealthy whiskey distiller.
		In December of 1915 questions were being raised about how well the war was being fought.
		On the 10th December a new commander of the British was appointed - Douglas Haig.
	www.worldwar1.com /biochaig.htm (467 words)

	Earl of Selkirk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		His only son and heir, Dunbar James Douglas, was born April 22, 1809 in London.
		Upon his death in his 76th year in 1885, the title became dormant and his estates devolved on his elder sister, Isabella Helen, date of birth unspecified.
		The estates in 1883 comprised 22,264 acres with an annual income of £21,473, and a personal fortune approximating £515,000.The Earldom of Selkirk commenced with its granting to the first Earl, William Douglas afterwards William Hamilton on August 4, 1646.
	people.maine.com /lights/earl.htm (246 words)

	ScotClans - Clan Douglas - Clan History
		The earliest recorded Douglas seems to be William of Douglas, whose name appears as a witness to charters between 1175 and 1211 around Lanarkshire, but from whom he was descended is unknown.
		His son was slain at the battle of Halidon Hill by the English in 1333, as was Sir Archibald.
		His son, the 4th Earl, died fighting the English with France’s Charles VII and his young grandsons were tricked and murdered in Edinburgh Castle by family enemies.
	www.scotclans.com /clans/Douglas/history.html (543 words)

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