A history of the house of Douglas from the earliest times down to the legislative union of England and Scotland . s to Douglas were fully recognised,became manifest upon the death of her nephew, James,2nd Earl of Douglas [xii.], at Otterburn in 1388, whenRobert, Earl of Fife, visited the castle as its superior, foundher still suiornand [sojourning] there, and granted herpermission to remain as long as she chose, adding that inthe men tyme, we haf heft trewly we sal manteyn hir, hirmen, hir landys and al hir possessons aganys ony that waldwrang thaim, in als tendir maner as wr awyn propir.^ The
A history of the house of Douglas from the earliest times down to the legislative union of England and Scotland . s to Douglas were fully recognised,became manifest upon the death of her nephew, James,2nd Earl of Douglas [xii.], at Otterburn in 1388, whenRobert, Earl of Fife, visited the castle as its superior, foundher still suiornand [sojourning] there, and granted herpermission to remain as long as she chose, adding that inthe men tyme, we haf heft trewly we sal manteyn hir, hirmen, hir landys and al hir possessons aganys ony that waldwrang thaim, in als tendir maner as wr awyn propir.^ TheCountess of Angus and Mar bore a son, George, to herbrother-in-law and paramour.^ There remains no record that the Church remonstratedor interfered in any way to correctthe irregular private life of theCountess of Angus ; but when sheinfringed upon the temporal rightsof ecclesiastics, she was threatenedwith all the terrors of excommuni-cation. This occurred during herlast years, when a dispute arosebetween her and the monks ofFig. 4.—Seal of Maigaret Durham about possession of cer- Stewart, Countess of Ma-. and Angus (1374-141S). tain lands in Berwickshire. The countess held these lands by force,but yielded to the threat of anathema, and the Prior of Fraser, iii. 34. - Ibid., 32. Godscroft, unwilling probably to assign an incestuous as well as illegitimateorigin to the line of Douglas, Earls of Angus, his patrons, states that the ist Earlof Douglas [xi.] married the Countess of Angus and Mar after the death of hiswife Margaret of Mar. But Douglas was only married once, and his wife, thesaid Margaret, survived both her and her son. Earl James [xii.] (see vol. 94). The paternity of George, Ist Earl of Angus, is fully set forth in acharter to him by James de Sandilands, Lord of Cawdor, c. 1397.—Ibid.,iii. 35. GEORGE DOUGLAS, EARL OF ANGUS 5 Durham directed the Prior of Coldingham to grant herabsolution ^ upon her yielding up the lands in dispute,which she did on 4th Janua
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