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Hace 4 días · In 1452 he stabbed William Douglas, 8th earl of Douglas, to death, and in 1455 James Douglas, 9th earl of Douglas, was attainted. The main line of the Douglas family never regained its position, though a younger, or cadet, branch of the family, the earls of Angus, was important in the late 15th century.
Hace 1 día · Hugh Rigby of Parbold, chaplain and incumbent of the chapel of Our Blessed Lady in Parbold alias Douglas, stated that he was presented about 1520 by William Lathom, the said William and his ancestors having been 'without time of mind' founders and patrons thereof, and that he had been forcibly expelled.
Hace 4 días · Genealogy for William Douglas (1582 - 1648) family tree on Geni, with over 260 million profiles of ancestors and living relatives. People Projects Discussions Surnames
Hace 4 días · Douglas was married (wife’s name unknown) but their son, William, was killed at Halidon Hill on 19 July 1333. James’ illegitimate son, Archibald, had a distinguished career that saw him become the third earl of Douglas in 1389.
Hace 5 días · Biography. Douglas, born c.1294, was the youngest son of Sir William Douglas, lord of Douglas (d.1298) and his second wife Eleanor de Ferrers. The influence of his older half-brother, Sir James Douglas, may lie behind land grants in Archibald’s favour in the 1320s. After James’ death in 1330 Archibald acted as tutor to his son.
Hace 4 días · Henry Percy did not hold the manor of Hackney for long. The dissipation of the Percy estates by the sixth Earl has been described in detail by J. M. W. Bean in The Estates of the Percy Family, 1416–1537.
Hace 2 días · The Bigod Earls of Norfolk in the Thirteenth Century – Reviews In History. See Author's Response. In his seminal Ford Lecture in 1953, K. B. McFarlane argued that the ‘real politics’ of the later medieval period were inherent in the ‘daily personal relations’ between king and magnates.
