William Douglas of Glenbervie

Arms of the House Douglas of Glenbervie

Sir William Douglas of Glenbervie, Knt. (c. 1473 – 9 September 1513) was a Scottish nobleman, who fell at Flodden.

Biography

Douglas was the second son of Archibald Douglas, 5th Earl of Angus, and his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Robert Boyd, 1st Lord Boyd.[1][2] He obtained the lands of Glenbervie by his marriage and was thereafter styled Douglas of Glenbervie.[2]

In 1493 and 1509 Douglas was in possession of charters of the lands of Grenane, in Ayrshire. The lands of Braidwood, in Lanarkshire, were confirmed to him in 1510.[2]

William Douglas was knighted before 1511,^[citation needed] and was slain on 9 September 1513 at the Battle of Flodden.[3]

Family

Douglas was pledged in marriage, by contract, in 1492, to Elizabeth, daughter and co-heir of the later James Auchinleck of that Ilk, by which contract he received a grant of the wardship of Auchinleck's estates. They had a son Sir Archibald Douglas of Glenbervie.[3]

Elizabeth Douglas survived her husband and entered the convent of St. Catherine of Siena, on the Burgh Muir of Edinburgh.^[citation needed] This convent was to give its name to the Sciennes area of the city.

Notes

1. Burke & Burke 1848, pedigree CLXXXV.
2. Douglas 1798, pp. 18, 19.
3. Douglas 1798, p. 19.

References

• Burke, John; Burke, John Bernard (1848), The royal families of England, Scotland, and Wales: with their descendants, sovereigns and subjects, vol. 1, London: E. Churton, pedigree CLXXXV
• Douglas, Sir Robert; et al. (1798), The Baronage of Scotland, Edinburgh, pp. 18, 19
• This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain: Balfour, Paul, James (1904). The Scots Peerage; founded on Wood's edition of Sir Robert Douglas's peerage of Scotland; containing an historical and genealogical account of the nobility of that kingdom. Vol. 5. Edinburgh: D. Douglas. pp. 145, 146.

Further reading

• Burke, John; Burke, John Bernard (1851), The royal families of England, Scotland, and Wales: with their descendants, sovereigns and subjects, vol. 2, London: E. Churton, pedigree CCVIII
• Mackenzie, A.M. (1935), The Rise of the Stewarts, London