Brief Life History of James
When James Douglas 9th Earl of Douglas and 3rd Earl of Avondale was born in 1426, in Douglas Castle, Lanarkshire, Scotland, his father, James Douglas of Balvenie - 7th Earl of Douglas, was 55 and his mother, Beatrice Sinclair of Orkney - Countess of Douglas, was 28. He married Lady Anne Holland in 1462, in England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He died on 22 May 1491, in Fife, Scotland, United Kingdom, at the age of 65, and was buried in Lindores, Fife, Scotland, United Kingdom.
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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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