George Douglas

Abt 1379 - 1403  (~ 24 years)

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• Name	George Douglas
  Born	Abt 1379	Scotland   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Reference Number	9791
  Died	1403	England   [1]
  	Prisoner, Battle of Homildon Hill, died of the plague
  Person ID	I9791	FelsingFam
  Last Modified	16 Feb 2024

  
  

  Family	Mary Stewart,   b. Abt 1382, Scotland ,   d. Aft 1458, Scotland  (Age ~ 77 years)
  Married	1397	Scotland   [1]
  Children	+ 1. Sir William Douglas,   b. Abt 1398, Scotland ,   d. Oct 1437, Scotland  (Age ~ 39 years)  [natural]
  Last Modified	16 Feb 2024
  Family ID	F3342	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

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  Born - Abt 1379 - Scotland Married - 1397 - Scotland Died - 1403 - England  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

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  From https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Douglas-390 George was born before 1378,[1] the illegitimate son of William Douglas, Earl of Douglas & his mistress Margaret Stewart, (his wife's sister-in-law), Countess of Angus. George was the first Earl of Angus in the Douglas family, inheriting the title from his mother. He was the first husband, (contract 24 May 1397), of Mary Stewart, daughter of King Robert Stewart III[2]. Foundation for Medieval Genealogy He was created 1st Earl of Angus on 9 April 1389.[3] He fought in the Battle of Homildon Hill on 14 September 1402, where he was captured by the English. He died after September 1402 in Lancashire, England from the Bubonic Plague.[3],[4] He has an extensive biographical entry in the Dictionary of National Biography.[5] He had two children by his wife: William Douglas Elizabeth Douglas Sources ↑ G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume I, page 154. ↑ Alison Weir, Britain's Royal Families: The Complete Genealogy (London, U.K.: The Bodley Head, 1999), page 228. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Mosley, Charles, editor. Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes. Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003. Volume 1, page 1281. ↑ G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume I, page 155. ↑ Matthew H.C.G., editor, Dictionary of National Biography on CD-ROM (Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press, 1995). See also: Richardson, Douglas, "Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families", Salt Lake City: the author, 2013 Vol. I, p. 653 Wikipedia: George Douglas, 1st Earl of Angus Wikidata: Item Q337015 help.gif The Peerage: George Douglas 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. 14, p. 39 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. 172-213 WeRelate: George Douglas

  
  

• 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.