A history of the house of Douglas from the earliest times down to the legislative union of England and Scotland . eir.^ He Death of the . , . , -r , r i • , , - and Earl of mamed m 1425 the wife chosen for him by hisA^ grandmother, namely, Margaret Hay of Yester,who survived him for nearly fifty years.^ Shebore her husband threesons—(i) James, who suc-ceeded as third earl; (2)George, who succeeded asfourth earl ; and (3)William, commonly calledof Cluny [in Fife]. This William Douglas[xl.] was appointed guard-ian to King James his minority, andreceived from him before1462 s
A history of the house of Douglas from the earliest times down to the legislative union of England and Scotland . eir.^ He Death of the . , . , -r , r i • , , - and Earl of mamed m 1425 the wife chosen for him by hisA^ grandmother, namely, Margaret Hay of Yester,who survived him for nearly fifty years.^ Shebore her husband threesons—(i) James, who suc-ceeded as third earl; (2)George, who succeeded asfourth earl ; and (3)William, commonly calledof Cluny [in Fife]. This William Douglas[xl.] was appointed guard-ian to King James his minority, andreceived from him before1462 some of the spoilaccruing from the forfeitureof the Earl of Douglas and his adherents. Two years later,xl. wiuiam i 1464, King James appointed him WardenDongiasof of the Eastern and Middle Marches,* in suc-unmaA-ied cession to his brother the 4th Earl of Angusbefore 1475. [xlii.], and at the same time committed to him thekeeping of the castles of Douglas and Tantallon, with their Bower, xvi. 24. - Fraser, iii. 372. ^ She was still enjoying her terce in ^/1/., 116.* /ie^. Magni Sigilli, ii. No. Fig. 6.—Seal of William Douglas, 2ndEarl of Angus (1402-1437). 12 THE HOUSE OF DOUGLAS lordships. When the sth earl, Bell-the-Cat [xliii.], cameof age in 1470, William Douglas came before the King andad eius genua prouolutus—resigned ward of Tantallon andthe lordship of Douglas per fustem et bacnlum in the saidearls favour. The lands which he received upon the for-feiture of his kinsmen, comprising Sunderlandhall inSelkirkshire, Cranston in Midlothian, and Traquair andLeithenhope in Peeblesshire, were erected in 1464 into thebarony of Sunderland in his favour.^ William Douglas of Cluny, sometimes styled lord ofSunderland and sometimes lord of Traquair, died, probablyunmarried, before 1475, when his lands of Cluny appear inpossession of the 5th Earl of James Douglas must have been about eleven years oldwhen he succeeded his father in the earldom in 1437. Oneof h
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