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DOUGLAS 433 when the right to the Earldom of Mar [S.] devolved, after the death of his mother, on his only sister,(^) as h. of line (see that dignity), but the Earldom of Douglas followed the course of the Douglas estateSjC") which had been erected into a comitatus, and devolved on Archibald Douglas, as stated below, in consequence of an entail made by the ist Earl in the event of failure of lawful heirs male of his body. His widow m., between 1388 and 1390, Sir John Edmonstone, of Duntreath, and d. about 1410. III. 1388. 3. Archibald (Douglas), Earl of Douglas [S.], Lord of Galloway, &'c., called " The Grim,"(') illegit. son of " the good Sir James Douglas " abovementioned, who was uncle of the 1st Earl. He was ^. about 1325; was with the Earl, his cousin, at the battle of Poitiers, 19 Sep. 1356, and greatly distinguished himself in various inroads against the English. Lord Warden of the Marches 1368 till his death. Under the settlement of May 1342, whereby the Douglas lands were entailed on the i st Earl and his issue male, with divers remainders, he sue. thereto and, in consequence (apparently), to the Earldom, in 1388, on the failure of such /egit. male issuc^") He was appointed a Conservator of a truce with the English, 16 July 1390. He m. (disp. 23 July 1362) Joan, widow of Sir Thomas Moray, Lord of Bothwell (" Panetarius Scotiae "), by whom he acquired that Lordship,() only child and h. of Morice (Moray), Earl of Stratherne, by Joan, da. of Sir John Menteith. He d. (having survived his father 70 years) probably on Christmas Eve, 1400, certainly shortly before 9 Feb. 1400/1, at Threave (anciently Treif), and was l^ur. at Bothwell. (') His widow, living Jan. 1402/3, was probably dead in Aug. 1409. IV. 1400. 4. Archibald (Douglas), Earl OF Douglas [S.], Lord of Galloway, Wigtoun, (ffc, s. and h., i>. about 1370, was Lord Warden of the Marches 1400, and in command at an invasion of (*) This sister Isabel, sua Jure Countess of Mar, d. s.p., 1408, being the last legit. descendant of the 1st Earl; at her death the representation of the Douglas family as heir general devolved on Sir James Sandilands, of Calder, descended from Eleanor, Dowager Countess of Carrick [S.], by her 2nd husband, James Sandilands, which Eleanor was only sister of the 1st Earl Douglas, and was living 1376, as wife of Sir Patrick Hepburn, of Hales. C") The (apparently) territorial devolution of this Earldom (as a Peerage dignity) at this comparatively late date is a powerful argument against the views held by Lord Mansfield on that subject. {) See tabular pedigree on p. 432. () He is sometimes said to have introduced on the (azure) chief of his own family arms the arms of Moray, which were 3 stars. It is, however, pointed out by Joseph Bain, F.S.A., that the stars " certainly appear on the seal of William of Douglas in 1296-7; see Calendar, vol. ii, no. 909," and that as the Douglas race came perhaps originally from the province of Moray, "hence possibly the stars which are used by many of those northern families." (') Of his daughters, Marjory m., Feb. 1399/1400, at Bothwell Church, David (Stewart), Duke of Rothesay, Prince of Scotland, who d. s.p. and v.p., 26 Mar. 1402. 55