The complete English peerage: or, A genealogical and historical account of the peers and peeresses of this realm, to the year 1775, inclusive . sover the intermediate offspring, Vvilliam de Douglas, then the reprefcn-tadve of the family in Scotland, and faid to be immediately delcendedfrom the above-named Sholto, was created lord, or Dominus ^at a parliament, or conventus procerum, held at Forfar, by MalcolmCanmore, or Greathead, who was cotemporary William the Con-queror. , the firil: lord Douglas, died about the beginning ofthe twclftji century, leaving iffue two fon
The complete English peerage: or, A genealogical and historical account of the peers and peeresses of this realm, to the year 1775, inclusive . sover the intermediate offspring, Vvilliam de Douglas, then the reprefcn-tadve of the family in Scotland, and faid to be immediately delcendedfrom the above-named Sholto, was created lord, or Dominus ^at a parliament, or conventus procerum, held at Forfar, by MalcolmCanmore, or Greathead, who was cotemporary William the Con-queror. , the firil: lord Douglas, died about the beginning ofthe twclftji century, leaving iffue two fons, Sir John, fecond lord Dou-glas, and Sir Wiljinm, 1 he former of thefe, defigned in his fathersIif:time, of Douglas-hum, in the county of Selkirk, was a man of greatnote in the reign of David I. He died about the year 1145, and wr-sfuccecded by his fon. Sir William, third lord Douglas. This lord mar-ried a daughter of Frifldnus de Kendal, whofe cllate lay upon the riverSpey, and by her had fix fons and one daughter. Archibald, the €Aq^of the fons, fuccet^ded his father as loi-d Douglas-;. Briciu* de Dcugias, tl\fi jV^, X \^ ^^ DufCE of Dover and Qu e e n s b c r r y. i 6^ the fecond, was, firft, prior of Lifmahago, and afterwards dean and bi-fhop of Murray ; Alexander, the third, was vice-comes or fheriff of El-gin, about the year 1220; Henry and Hugh, the fourth and fifth, ?.r<tmentioned in diverscharters about that time, and were the anceftprs offeveral families in the north of Scotland ; Fri^kinus, the fixth, is aifomentioned in charters, as the brother of biihop Bricius. Margaret, theirfiller, v/as married to Sir Harvxy Keith, anceftor to the earl marlhals ofScotland. Archibald, fourth lord of Douglas, and cldefl fon of the former, isfaid to have been much in favour with king Alexander IL and to havepoffeiled great abilities and a large eilate. He died about the year 1240,leaving iiiue by his lady, daughter and coheirefs of Sir John Crawford,of Crav/ford, two
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