A history of the house of Douglas from the earliest times down to the legislative union of England and Scotland . Fig. 2.—Seal of GilbertUmfraville, Earl ofAngus (1245-1307).. THOMAS STEWART, EARL OF ANGUS 3 but Robert I. had bestowed both upon Sir John Stewart ofBoncle. Sir John died in i 3 31, leaving the earldom to hisinfant son Thomas, by his wife Margaret, daughter and co-heiress of Sir Alexander de Abernethy. By this marriagethe lordship of Abernethy and other lands came intopossession of the Earls of Angus. Thomas Stewart, Earl of Angus, married, in 1353, Mar-garet, daughter of Sir Will


A history of the house of Douglas from the earliest times down to the legislative union of England and Scotland . Fig. 2.—Seal of GilbertUmfraville, Earl ofAngus (1245-1307).. THOMAS STEWART, EARL OF ANGUS 3 but Robert I. had bestowed both upon Sir John Stewart ofBoncle. Sir John died in i 3 31, leaving the earldom to hisinfant son Thomas, by his wife Margaret, daughter and co-heiress of Sir Alexander de Abernethy. By this marriagethe lordship of Abernethy and other lands came intopossession of the Earls of Angus. Thomas Stewart, Earl of Angus, married, in 1353, Mar-garet, daughter of Sir William St. Clair of Roslyn.^ andbecame Chamberlain of Scotland,- anoffice in which he was replaced before1359 by Walter, Lord of Biggar,probably on account of certain doingswhich ultimately cost him his variety of reasons for the disgraceof Angus are mentioned by Bower—his oppression of the commons,his disorderly life, and, lastly, his FS- 3--Seal ,>f Thomasalleged complicity in the murder (irrV_,,6i|^ ° ^^of Katherine Mortimer, the Welsh mistress of David II.^ The King sent him to prison inDumbarton Castle, where he died of the plague in left two dau


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