Category: Douglas of Sweden

Categories: Clan Douglas Branches of Sweden | European Noble Houses | House of Douglas | Baltic-German Nobility

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Arms of Graf Douglas.

"ARMS of the Douglases in Sweden. — Quarterly. 1. Argent, a knight in armour, with a red surcoat, brandishing a sword, and mounted on a brown horse. 2 and 3. Azure, a lion rampant gules, crowned or, holding in dexter paw a palm branch proper, and in the sinister a plate. 4. Argent, a soldier of seventeenth century with gold coat and boots and red overalls, holding pike in dexter hand. En surtout, Argent, a cinquefoil sable surmounted by a heart gules, on a chief azure three stars of the field. [Plate VI., fig. 6.] CRESTS : Dexter, A tower argent, and issuing therefrom a demi lion rampant gules, crowned or, in dexter paw a sword, and in sinister a palm branch, both proper ; Middle, A salamander vert in flames or ; Sinister, A knight on horseback, as in first quarter. SUPPORTERS : Two unicorns argent."

Source:Johnston, George Harvey. "The Douglases of Morton." 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. 71. Print.

History From http://www.douglashistory.co.uk/history/families/douglas_in_europe.htm

Field Marshal Robert Douglas was firstly created baron, and then count, in Sweden. His main fief was the town of Skänninge, and his wife brought in the estate where they had the manor of Stjernorp erected. His descendants generally continued to reside in Sweden, some offshoots to Russia, Germany etc. The head of the house received in 1848 the title of Count (count of the entail of Mühlhausen) also in peerage of the Grand Duchy of Baden.

The main lineage did not produce long-lasting branches (except the russian branch, a few generations), until the riksmarskalk of Sweden (High Marshal), Count Ludvig (Louis) Douglas, Minister of Foreign Affairs, in the late 1800s, had several sons and yet more grandsons.

Sources;

"The history of the Swedish branch of the Whittinghame family is taken from Gabriel Anrep's Genealogical Tables of the Swedish Nobility, Stockholm, 1855, and continuation of same work, from 1857 to 1897, by F. M. Wrangel and Otto Bergstrom, and, lastly, from the Sveriges Ridderskaps och adels Kalender, 1906."
Johnston, George Harvey. "The Douglases of Morton." 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. 69. Print.

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