James Douglas 
James was born in 1358 in Douglas, Lanarkshire, Scotland. James' father was William Douglas and his mother was Margaret Dunbar. His paternal grandparents were Archibald Douglas and Beatrice Lindsay; his maternal grandfather was Patrick Dunbar and his maternal grandmother is Margaret Comyn. He had a sister named Margaret. He was the younger of the two children. He had a half-brother and two half-sisters, named George, Jean and Margaret. He died at the age of 30 on August 19th, 1388 in Otterburn.General Notes
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James, 2nd Earl of Douglas
The 2nd Earl was born in 1358 and succ eeded his father at a time of much
border warfare between Scotland and Englan d. Due to the old age of King
Robert II, the Douglases were left in charge of the defense of the
kingdom. They literally became "the shield of Scotland". In 1388 the 2nd
Earl led a plundering sweep into England in retaliation for t he
devastation caused by King Richard's army three years earlier. While on
this raid, Douglas met and defeated the renown English knight Henry
"Hotspur" Percy in personal combat. In triumph he carried off Percy's
pennon.
In an e ffort to regain his pennon, and his honor, Percy pursued and
engaged Douglas at the Battle of Otterburn. Douglas, although mortally
wounded in the battle, directed his captains to carry his standard, sound
his battle cry and rally his troops. Even in death, he carried the field.
James left one illegitimate son, William, 1st Lord of Drumlanrig, who was
the sire of the Queensberry cad et branch. As no legitimate heir was left,
the earldom passed to the "base bo rn" son of Sir James "The Good".
Otterbourne
A Scottish oDe to James, 2nd Ear l of Douglas and Sir Hugh Montgomery, his
nephew, who fought and defeated Hen ry "Hotspur" Percy on the field at
Otterburn in 1388.
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It fell about the Lammas tide,
When the muir-men win their hay,
The doughty Douglas bound him to ride
Into England, to drive a prey.
He chose the Gordons and the Graemes,
With them the Lindesays, light and gay;
But the Jardines wald not with him ri de,
And they rue it to this day.
And he has burned the dales of Tyne,
And pa rt of Bambrough shire,
And three good towers on Reidswire fells,
He left them all on fire.
And he marched up to Newcastle,
And roDe it round about:
"O wh a's the lord of this castle?
Or wha's the lady o't?"
But up spake proud Lord Percy then,
And O but he spake hie!
I am the lord of this castle,
My wife's the lady gay.
"If thou'rt the lord of this castle,
Sae weel it pleases me,
F or, ere I cross the Border fells,
The tane of us shall die."
He took a lang s pear in his hand,
Shod with the metal free,
And for to meet the Douglas there
He roDe right furiouslie.
But O how pale his lady looked,
Frae aff the cast le-wa,
When down before the Scottish spear
She saw proud Percy fa.
"Had we t wa been upon the green,
And never an eye to see,
I wad hae had you, flesh and fell;
But your sword sall gae wi me."
The Otterbourne's a bonnie burn;
'Tis pleasant there to be;
But there is nought at Otterbourne
To feed my men and me.
"The deer rins wild on hill and dale,
The birds fly wild frae tree to tre e;
But there is neither bread nor kale
To fend my men and me."
"Yet I will s tay at Otterbourne,
Where you shall welcome be;
And, if ye come not at three dayis end,
A fause lord I'll ca thee."
"Thither will I come," proud Percy sai d,
"By the might of Our Ladye;"
"There will I biDe thee." said the Douglas,
"My troth I plight to thee."
They lighted high on Otterbourne,
Upon the bent sae brown;
They lighted high on Otterbourne,
And threw their pallions down.
And he that had a bonnie boy
Sent out his horse to grass;
And he that had not a bonnie boy
His ain servant he was.
But up then spake a little page,
Befor e the peep of dawn:
"O waken ye, waken ye, my good lord,
For Percy's hard at hand."
"Ye lie, ye lie, ye liar loud!
Sae loud I hear ye lie:
For Percy had not men yestreen
To dight my men and me."
"But I have dreamed a dreary dream,
Beyond the Isle of Skye;
I saw a dead man win a fight,
And I think that man was I."
He belted on his guid braid sword,
And to the field he ran,
But he forgot the helmet good,
That should have kept his brain.
When Percy with the Douglas met,
I wat he was fu fain;
They swakked their swords, till sair they swat
And the blood ran down
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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*There are earlier generations for the ancestor(s) indicated. See their page(s) for details (click name)
- b.~ 1179 in Morayshire, Scotland d.1240 in Scotland
- b.1200 in Morayshire, Scotland d.1276
- b.~ 1187 in Crawford, Ayrshire, Scotland d.< 1225 in Scotland
- b.1225 in Douglas Castle, Douglas, Lanarkshire, Scotland d.1302 in Tower of York
- b.< 1183 in Scotland
- b.~ 1203 in Carrick, Galloway, Argyll, Scotland
- b.~ 1290 in Douglas, Lanarkshire, Scotland d.22 Jul 1333 in Halidon Hill, Lancashire, England
- b.~ 1215 in Badenoch, Inverness, Scotland d.1274
- b.1242 in Badenoch, Inverness, Scotland d.1303 in Inverlochy Castle, Fort William, Inverness, Scotland
- b.~ 1216 in Galloway, Scotland
- b.~ 1261
- b.~ 1212 in Barnard Castle, Durham, England d.24 Oct 1268
- b.1246 in Bernard Castle, Gainford, Durham, England
- b.~ 1215 in Fotheringhay Castle, Galloway, Scotland d.28 Dec 1290 in Kemston, Bedfordshire, England
- b.1320 in Douglas, Lanarkshire, Scotland d.May 1384 in Douglas, Lanarkshire, Scotland
- b.~ 1213 in Luffness, Aberlady, East Lothian, Scotland d.> 1249 in Breneville, Ayrshire, Scotland
- b.~ 1235 in Breneville, Ayrshire, Scotland d.1268 in Egypt
- b.1214 in Breneville, Ayrshire, Scotland
- b.1267 in Breneville, Ayrshire, Scotland d.> 1308 in Crawford, Clydesdale, Lanarkshire, Scotland
- b.1231 in Lamberton, Mordington, Berwickshire, Scotland d.02 Nov 1271
- b.1249 in Lamberton, Mordington, Berwickshire, Scotland d.~ 1274 in Breneville, Ayrshire, Scotland
- b.~ 1231 in Lamberton, Mordington, Berwickshire, Scotland
- b.1302 in Crawford, Clydesdale, Lanarkshire, Scotland d.< 1352 in Erskine, Renfewshire, Scotland
- b.1214 in Dundonald, Kyle, Ayrshire, Scotland d.1283 in Dundonald Castle, Ayrshire, Scotland
- b.~ 1240 in Crawford, Lanarkshire, Scotland
- b.1215 in Isle of Bute, Scotland
- b.~ 1264 in Dundonald Castle, Ayrshire, Scotland d.1337
- b.~ 1245 in Scotland
- b.1358 in Douglas, Lanarkshire, Scotland d.19 Aug 1388 in Otterburn
- b.1152 in Dunbar Castle, East Lothian, Scotland d.31 Dec 1232 in Scotland
- b.~ 1185 in Dunbar Castle, East Lothian, Scotland d.1248 in Damietta, Egypt
- b.1164 in Huntingdon, Northumberland, England d.1200 in Dunbar Castle, East Lothian, Scotland
- b.1213 in Dunbar Castle, East Lorthian, Scotland d.24 Aug 1289
- b.~ 1160 in Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland d.1241 in Dundonald Castle, Ayrshire, Scotland
- b.~ 1195 in Haddington, Lincolnshire, England d.~ 1267 in Whittingham, East Lothian, Scotland
- b.~ 1174 in Forfar, Angus-shire, Scotland
- b.1242 in Dunbar Castle, East Lothian, Scotland d.> 1292
- b.~ 1189 in Oliver Castle, Tweedmuir, Peebleshire, Scotland d.~ 1263 in Touch-Fraser, Stirlingshire, Scotland
- b.~ 1208 in Drumelzier, Peebleshire, Scotland d.< 1264
- b.~ 1190
- b.~ 1227 in Touch-Fraser, Stirlingshire, Scotland
- b.~ 1180 in Stapilgorton, Scotland
- b.~ 1208 in Stapilgorton, Scotland
- b.~ 1183
- b.~ 1305 in Dubar Castle, East Lothian, Scotland d.19 Oct 1393
- b.~ 1115 in Northalteron, Morayshire, Scotland d.1176 in Altyre, Morayshire, Scotland
- b.~ 1170 in Altyre, Morayshire, Scotland d.~ 1233 in Buchan, Aberdeen, Scotland
- b.~ 1122 in Tynedale, Morayshire, Scotland d.> 1189
- b.~ 1217 in Buchan, Aberdeen, Scotland d.1289
- b.~ 1140 in Buchan, Aberdeenshire, Scotland d.1199 in Buchan, Aberdeenshire, Scotland
- b.~ 1172 in Buchan, Aberdeen, Scotland d.~ 1243
- b.~ 1150 in Buchan, Aberdeenshire, Scotland
- b.~ 1265 in Altyre, Moray, Scotland
- b.1155 in Winchester, Hampshire, England d.03 Nov 1219 in Damietta, Palestine
- b.~ 1195 in Winchester, Hampshire, England d.25 Apr 1264 in Palestine
- b.1156 in Leicestershire, England d.19 Feb 1235
- b.~ 1220 in Winchester, Hampshire, England d.12 Apr 1282
- b.~ 1184 in Galloway, Wigtownshire, Scotland d.1234
- b.~ 1200 in Carrick, Ayrshire, Scotland d.>21 Nov 1245 in England
- b.~ 1174 in Morven, Argyll, Scotland d.~ 1209
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They had two sons and a daughter, named William, Archibald and Elinor.
Family Notes
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Children
William Douglas
William was born about 1375 in Drumlanrig Castle, Durisdeer, Dumfrieshire, Scotland. He died in 1427 in France.
Family Notes
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