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DOUGLAS 431 the Pari, held at Edinburgh, 20 Sep. 1357, and was one of the eight nobles of whom three were to place themselves in the hands of the English on the release of David II. He was, shortly afterwards, cr., 26 Jan. 1357/8, (*) EARL OF DOUGLAS [S.]. He attended the Coronation of Robert II at Scone, 26 Mar. I37i;() was Warden of the Marches, obtaining several successes against the English, and bringing Teviotdale into perfect subjection. He m., probably shortly before 13 Nov. 1357 (when she is mentioned in a charter of David II), Margaret, only da. of Donald, Earl of Mar [S.], by Isabel Stewart, which Margaret, by the death of her br.. Earl Thomas, between 22 Oct. 1373 and 21 June I374,('^) became suo jure Countess of Mar [S.]. The Earl, her husband (as early as 21 June 1374), assumed in her right that Earldom in addition to his own.() He d. in May 1384, after a short illness, at Douglas, and was bur. at Melrose. His widow m., as his ist wife, between 1385 and 27 July 1388, Sir John Swinton, of Swinton, who after the death of his stepson. Earl James, in 1388, is styled "Lord of Mar." She was living 5 Dec. I389,and,apparently, 18 Mar. 1390/1, but d. s.p.m.s., before 22 Nov. 1393. Sir John Swinton d. 14 Sep. 1402. II. 1384. 2. James (Douglas), Earl of Douglas [S.], by modern writers also styled (Jure tnatris) Earl of Mar [S.], only s. and h., b. about 1358; knighted by his father 1378, at a battle near Melrose. He made a raid into England as far as York, taking prisoner the renowned "Hotspur " (s. and h. ap. of the Earl of Northumberland), but was slain at the battle of Otterburn (Chevy Chase) about 14 Aug. 1388. He 7)1. (disp. 23 Sep. 1371) the Lady Isabel Stewart, da. of Robert II, by his 2nd wife, Eupheme, da. of Hugh, Earl of Ross [S.]. He d. s.p.s. legit.^i^) as afsd., about 14, and was bur. before 18 Aug. 1388, at Melrose, {') This far-famed Earldom was the second created "since the extinction [1290] of the Celtic dynasty;" the Earldom of Moray (of which the date probably is 131 2) being the fint, while the Earldom of Crawford (1398) was the third. See vol. iii, p. 508, note " b," sub Crawford. C") See sub Angus, vol. i, p. 160 (in a sub-note to note " b "), for some remarks as to the prerogatives claimed by the Douglas family and the vast importance of that family during the 15th century. (■=) Scots Peerage, vol. v, p. 584, note 4. V.G. (^) Scots Peerage says that it is not borne out by the evidence adduced that a grant of the Earldom of Mar was specially made to him. V.G. (') He left two illegit. sons, vix. (i) William Douglas, ancestor of the house of Queensberry, and (2) Archibald, ancestor of the family of Douglas of Cavers, Hered. Sheriffs of Teviotdale; but his most noted relative was his bastard brother, George Douglas, an illegit. s. of the first Earl by Margaret, suo jure Countess of Angus [S.], which George was in 1389 himself cr. Earl of Angus [S.], being ancestor of the Earls of Angus, to whom the Dukes of Hamilton [S.] became heirs male in 1761. On the death of the 2nd Earl of Douglas, in 1388, the legitimate head of the house would seem to have been in the family of Douglas of Dalkeith, Aberdour, cfc, anccstorsof the Earls of Morton [S.], so cr. 1458; but unquestionably (in spite of their bastard origin) the Earls of Douglas, and, after their extinction, the Earls of Angus, were considered as being such head.