Brief Life History of Archibald
When Archibald Douglas 3rd Earl of Douglas Earl of Wigtown Lord of Galloway and Bothwell was born on 1 November 1325, in Hermiston, Midlothian, Scotland, United Kingdom, his father, Sir James The Black Douglas Lord of Hermiston, was 39 and his mother, Mrs James Douglas, was 40. He married Johanna Murray on 23 July 1362, in Bothwell, Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. In 1361, at the age of 36, his occupation is listed as constable of edinburgh castle. He died on 24 December 1400, in Douglas Castle, Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, at the age of 75, and was buried in Bothwell, Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom.
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- Archibald 3rd Earl of Douglas, "Find A Grave Index"
- The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom
- Find a grave
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Name Meaning
Scottish: habitational name from any of various places called from their situation on a river named with Gaelic dubh ‘dark, black’ + glas ‘stream’ (a derivative of glas ‘blue’). There are several localities in Scotland and Ireland so named, but the one from which the surname is derived in most if not all cases is Douglas in Lanarkshire 20 miles south of Glasgow, the original stronghold of the influential Douglas family and their retainers.
History: The family taking their name from Douglas in Lanarkshire were of Flemish origin. They rose to great prominence in the 14th and 15th centuries, controlling the earldoms of Douglas, Morton, and Angus, and later, Queensberry.
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Archibald’s grandson, was the first formally to assume the title of lord of Douglas. After the death of his first wife, Elizabeth, daughter of Alexander the Steward, he abducted from the manor of the …
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