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DOUGLAS, George 4th Earl of Angus, 'Red Douglas'
(About 1420-1463)
SIBBALD, Isabella
(About 1432-1502)
BOYD, Robert Lord Boyd, Lord Chamberlain
(About 1425-1480/1482)
MAXWELL, Mariota
(About 1430-1473)
DOUGLAS, Archibald 5th Earl of Angus, 'Bell the Cat'
(About 1449-About 1513)
BOYD, Elizabeth
(About 1451-Before 1498)
DOUGLAS, William of Braidwood, then of Glenbervie, jure uxoris, Sir
(About 1471-1513)

 

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Spouses/Children:
1. AUCHINLECK, Elizabeth heiress of Glenbervie

DOUGLAS, William of Braidwood, then of Glenbervie, jure uxoris, Sir 1 2

  • Born: About 1471
  • Marriage (1): AUCHINLECK, Elizabeth heiress of Glenbervie in 1501 1
  • Died: 9 September 1513, Battle of Flodden Field, Northumberland, England

William married Elizabeth AUCHINLECK heiress of Glenbervie, daughter of James AUCHINLECK of Glenbervie and Giles ROSS, in 1501.1 (Elizabeth AUCHINLECK heiress of Glenbervie was born about 1482.)


  Marriage Notes:

"Sir William Douglas of Glenbervie. The date of his birth is not known, but in 1492 he received a grant of the ward of the lands of the deceased James Auchinleck, late son and heir of Sir John Auchinleck of that Ilk, including the marriage of Elizabeth,
daughter and heiress of James. In 1493 he had a charter of the lands of Grenane in Ayrshire, and again in 1509. In 1510 he received the lands of Braidwood in Lanarkshire. Sir William Douglas, who was knighted before 1511, was killed at Flodden. He married in 1501 Elizabeth Auchinleck, through whom he obtained the lands of Glenbervie. She survived him and took the veil in the convent of St.
John near the Boroughmuir or common moor of Edinburgh. They had issue one son :
Archibald Douglas of Glenbervie."

from Scots Peerage (vol 1)




"Sir John's grand-daughter Elizabeth married William Douglas, second son of Archibald, fifth Earl of Angus, and became ancestress of the Douglases of Glenbervie, Earls of Angus."

from Family of Wemyss 1 3

Sources


1 e-books, The Scots Peerage ed. Sir James Balfour Paul vol. 1 (1904).

2 e-books, History of Glenbervie by G.B. Kinnear (1895).

3 e-books, Memorials of the Family of Wemyss of Wemyss vol.1 by William Fraser (1888).

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