James (Douglas) Douglas Second Earl of Douglas and Mar (1355 - bef. 1388)

Born 1355 in Douglas Castle, Lanarkshire

Ancestors

Husband of Isabella (Stewart) Countess of Douglas — married after 23 Sep 1371 in Scotland

Descendants

Died before 18 Aug 1388 before age 33 in Northumberland, England

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Sir James (Douglas) Douglas Second Earl of Douglas and Mar was killed in Action during the Battle of Otterburn.

James (Douglas) Douglas Second Earl of Douglas and Mar is a member of Clan Douglas.

James Douglas, second earl of Douglas and Mar, was the son of William Douglas and Margaret, Countess of Mar. He married Isabel Stewart, daughter of Robert II and Elizabeth Mure, sometime after 23 September 1371 (when they received a papal dispensation) and before 1373 (when £500 specified in the marriage contract was actually paid).^[1][2] There was only one child from this marriage, a son who died in infancy.^[1][2][3]

James Douglas had at least three natural children with unknown mistresses:

1. William Douglas of Drumlanrig^[1][2][4]
2. Archibald Douglas of Cavers^[1][2]
3. Eleanor Douglas, m. Sir William Fraser of Philorth^[1][2]

James Douglas, earl of Douglas and Mar, died before 18 August 1388 of wounds suffered at the Battle of Otterburn and was buried at Melrose. ^{[1][5] [6]} His widow Isabel, countess of Douglas, married (second) John de Edmonstone sometime before 1390.^[1]

Male Line of Descent from James Douglas to late 19th Century.

Research Notes

• Birth ABT 1355 Douglas Castle, Lanarkshire; Also found Birth 1344, 1358.

• James was the elder half-brother of the illegitmate George, Earl of Angus.[2]

• Marriage 23 SEP 1371 Dispensation, Scotland - Wife: Isabella Eupheme Stewart

• James Douglas, 2nd Earl of Douglas was invested as a Knight in 1378. He succeeded to the title of 2nd Earl of Douglas in May 1384.

• Burial Melrose, Roxburghshire, Scotland

• Lundy, D. (2016, January 16). James Douglas, 2nd Earl of Douglas #108050, b. circa 1358, d. circa 14 August 1388. The Peearage. Web.[3]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6} Douglas Richardson. Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 5 vols, ed, Kimball G. Everingham (Salt Lake City: the author 2013), vol. 1, pp. 633-634 BRUS 10.viii. Isabel Stewart.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4} 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, 1906, Vol. III, Archive.org, p. 157.
3. ↑ Burnett, George. Rotuli Scaccarii Regum Scotorum (The Exchequer Rolls of Scotland). Edinburgh: H.M. General Register House (1880), vol. 4, appendix to preface, p. clxiii.
4. ↑ 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, 1910, Vol. VII, Archive.org, p. 112
5. ↑ 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, 1906, Vol. III, Archive.org, p. 156.
6. ↑ Ogle (1902), states, "In 1388, James, earl of Douglas, suddenly entered England and advanced as far as Brancepeth in Durham. On returning he lay three days before Newcastle, during which several skirmishes took place. The Scots then marched to Ponteland, took the castle there and then marched on to Otterbum where they encamped and entrenched themselves. The English, under Sir Henry Percy ... Hotspur, after a forced march of thirty-six hours, attacked them on the 19th of August; ... as the English had carelessly thought they had gained a victory they were charged by the earl of Douglas, who fell, but the Scots rallying defeated the English," (p. 40).[1]

See also:

• Wikipedia: James Douglas, 2nd Earl of Douglas

• Wikidata: Item Q586953, en:Wikipedia

• Johnston, George Harvey. "The Earls of Douglas." 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, Limited, 1907. 14-15. Print.