Archibald Douglas, 5th Earl of Douglas

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M, #108096, b. 1390, d. 26 June 1439

    '''Archibald Douglas, 5th Earl of Douglas''' was born in 1390.1 

He was the son of Archibald Douglas, 4th Earl of Douglas and Margaret Stewart, Lady of Galloway.2

He was also reported to have been born in 1391.

He married Lady Eupheme Graham, daughter of Patrick Graham, Earl of Strathearn and Eupheme Stewart, Countess of Caithness, between 24 February 1423 and 26 April 1425.3

He died on 26 June 1439 at Restalrig, Midlothian, Scotland, from a fever.3 He was also reported to have died on 24 November 1440. He was buried at St. Bride's Church, Douglas, Scotland.3

    Archibald Douglas, 5th Earl of Douglas was styled as Earl of Wigtoun between 1410 and 1424.3 He fought in the Battle of Baugé on 22 March 1420/21.3 He was created Comte de Longueville [France] before 1424.3 He held the office of Scottish Ambassador to England in 1424, for the ransom of King James I.3 He succeeded to the title of Duc de Touraine on 17 August 1424.3 He succeeded to the title of 5th Earl of Douglas [S., 1358] on 17 August 1424.3 He held the office of a Regent of the Kingdom in 1437.3 He held the office of Lieutenant-General of the Kingdom in 1438.3 He has an extensive biographical entry in the Dictionary of Nationary Biography.4

Children of Archibald Douglas, 5th Earl of Douglas and Lady Eupheme Graham

1. 1.Margaret Douglas+5 d. bt Jan 1473 - 1475
2. 2.William Douglas, 6th Earl of Douglas6 b. c 1424, d. 24 Nov 1440
3. 3.David Douglas7 b. b 1439, d. 24 Nov 1440

Citations

1.[S11] Alison Weir, Britain's Royal Family: A Complete Genealogy (London, U.K.: The Bodley Head, 1999), page 224. Hereinafter cited as Britain's Royal Family.
2.[S11] Alison Weir, Britain's Royal Family, page 228. 3.[S6] G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume IV, page 434. Hereinafter cited as The Complete Peerage. 4.[S18] Matthew H.C.G., editor, Dictionary of National Biography on CD-ROM (Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press, 1995). Hereinafter cited as Dictionary of National Biography. 5.[S11] Alison Weir, Britain's Royal Family, page 230. 6.[S6] Cokayne, and others, The Complete Peerage, volume I, page 313. 7.[S6] Cokayne, and others, The Complete Peerage, volume IV, page 435.

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Archibald Douglas (1390 – 26 June 1439) was a Scottish nobleman and General, son of Archibald Douglas, 4th Earl of Douglas and Margaret Stewart, eldest daughter of Robert III. He was Earl of Douglas and Wigtown, Lord of Galloway, Lord of Bothwell, Selkirk and Ettrick Forest, Eskdale, Lauderdale, and Annandale in Scotland, and de jure Duke of Touraine, Count of Longueville, and Seigneur of Dun-le-roi in France. In contemporary French sources, he was known as Victon, a phonetic translation of his Earldom of Wigtown.

He fought with the French at Baugé in 1421, and was made count of Longueville in Normandy. He succeeded to his father's English and Scottish titles in 1424, though he never drew on his father's French estates of the Duchy of Touraine. Douglas served as ambassador to England in 1424, during the ransoming of James I.

He also sat on the jury of 21 knights and peers which convicted Murdoch Stewart, Duke of Albany and two of his sons of treason in 1424, leading to the execution of Albany and the virtual annihilation of his family.

Following the murder of King James I of Scotland at Perth in 1437, Douglas was appointed Lieutenant General of Scotland, and held the office of Regent, during the minority of James II until to 1439. Douglas died from a fever in Restalrig, Midlothian, and was buried at Douglas.

Marriage and issue

Between 1423 and 1425 he married Eupheme Graham (before 1413–1468), daughter of Patrick Graham, de jure uxoris Earl of Strathearn, and Euphemia Stewart, Countess of Strathearn. They had three children.

William Douglas (c.1424–24 November 1440), who briefly succeeded as 6th Earl

Margaret Douglas, Fair Lady of Galloway (before 1435–1475)
David Douglas (before 1439–24 November 1440)
Both sons were summarily beheaded at Edinburgh Castle on trumped up charges, in the presence of the young King James II. The so-called 'Black Dinner' thus broke the power of the 'Black' Douglases. The lordships of Annandale and Bothwell fell to the crown, Galloway to Margaret Douglas, and the Douglas lands and earldom passed to William's great-uncle James Douglas, Earl of Avondale, who was himself implicated, with Sir William Crichton, in the murder of the young earl. ___________________________________________

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