DE DOUGLAS, Unknown (William?) ¹

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  General Notes:

"It is certain that the lands of Douglas were in the possession of William of Douglas before the year 1198, as he is mentioned under the designation 'Will de Dufglas,' as one of the witnesses to a charter by Joceline, Bishop of Glasgow, granted between 1174 and 1199. Godscroft puts forward the theory that it was the earliest known ancestor of the Douglas family - his fabulous Sholto - who gave name to the lands of Douglas, but this theory can no longer be entertained. Considerably before the appearance of the first ancestor of the Douglas family on authentic record, there is mention in charters granted prior to the year 1160 of a water ' de Duglax,' as well as of a 'territorium de Duglas,' adjacent thereto, in the county of Lanark, and to such a district reference is made by Walter Fitz Alan, High Steward to King William the Lion, before 1177, as one of the boundaries of his forest of Mauchline, the pasture of which he granted to the monastery of Melrose."

from The Douglas Book ¹

Unknown married.