Sir William Douglas

Abt 1398 - 1437  (~ 39 years)

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• Name	William Douglas  [1]
  Title	Sir
  Born	Abt 1398	Scotland   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Reference Number	9789
  Died	Oct 1437	Scotland   [1]
  Person ID	I9789	FelsingFam
  Last Modified	16 Feb 2024

  
  

  Father	George Douglas,   b. Abt 1379, Scotland ,   d. 1403, England  (Age ~ 24 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Mary Stewart,   b. Abt 1382, Scotland ,   d. Aft 1458, Scotland  (Age ~ 77 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Married	1397	Scotland   [1]
  Family ID	F3342	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Margaret Hay,   b. Abt 1400, Scotland
  Married	6 Jan 1414/15	Yester Castle, Scotland   [1]
  Children	+ 1. Helen Douglas,   b. Abt 1436, Scotland ,   d. Abt 1487, Scotland  (Age ~ 51 years)  [natural]
  Last Modified	16 Feb 2024
  Family ID	F3341	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map

  Born - Abt 1398 - Scotland Died - Oct 1437 - Scotland  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Notes

  From https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Douglas-422 William Douglas, 2nd Earl of Angus succeeded to the title of 2nd Earl of Angus [S., 1389] in 1402. In 1423 he was one of the negotiators for the release of King James I. He held the office of Ambassador to England in 1430. He held the office of Warden of the Middle Marches in 1433. He fought in the Battle of Piperdean on 10 September 1436, where he defeated the English. He was knighted at the coronation of King James I.[1] Robert de Lawedre, with [his brother] James de Lawedre, and Thomas de Lawedre, Canon of Dunbar, witnessed the confirmation by William de Lawedre, Bishop of Glasgow, of the Papal Dispensation by Pope Benedict XIII dated 11 Dec 1413, for the marriage of William de Douglas, Earl of Angus,and Margaret, daughter of Sir William de la Hay, the elder, Knt., who were related in the fourth degree of consanguinity. Dated and signed at Yester castle, Haddingtonshire, 6th January 1414/15.[2] He married Margaret Hay, daughter of Sir William Hay of Yester, on 3 Dec. 1414, having have been contracted to her on 12 Dec. 1410.[1] They had issue:- James, 3rd Earl of Angus George, 4th Earl of Angus William Hugh Elene (or Helen) He had one son who was possibly illegitimate:: Archibald[1][3] Sources ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Paul, James Balfour. "The Scots Peerage : founded on Wood's ed. of Sir Robert Douglas's Peerage of Scotland; containing an historical and genealogical account of the nobility of that kingdom", Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1904, Vol. I, Archive.org, pp. 174-5 ↑ Calendar of Writs preserved at Yester House 1166-1625 compiled by Charles C.H.Harvey and John MacLeod, SRS, Edinburgh, 1930 no.50, p.42. ↑ Johnston, George Harvey, "The heraldry of the Douglases : with notes on all the males of the family, descriptions of the arms, plates and pedigrees", Edinburgh: W & A K Johnston, 1907, Archive.org, p. 39 See also: Wikipedia: William Douglas, 2nd Earl of Angus Wikidata: Item Q2578481, en:Wikipedia help.gif Adrian Benjamin Burke, The Livingston Ancestry of the Duncanson Sisters of New Netherland, Part II: Identifyng their maternal great-grandmother Margaret Forrester," in The Genealogist, 2013, p. 176. The Peerage: William Douglas, 2nd Earl of Angus Wikipedia:Battle_of_Piperdean Stephen, Leslie, ed. (1888). "Douglas, William (1398?-1437)". Dictionary of National Biography. 15. London: Smith, Elder & Co.

  
  

• Sources

  [S784] The Genealogist, Journal of the American Society of Genealogists, (Name: American Society of Genealogists;), Adrian Benjamin Burke, "The Livingston Ancestry of the Duncanson Sisters of New Netherland", The Genealogist 27 (2013): 28-50, 162-181 and 28 (2014): 58-89. Also available on AmericanAncestors.org.