Catherine Douglas

Catherine Douglas

• Gender: Female
• Birth: circa Hermiston, Roxburghshire, Scotland
• parents: (possibly) Sir Archibald Douglas, 3rd Earl of Douglas2 b. c 1325, d. 24 Dec 1400 & Joanna Moray2 d. b Aug 1409
• Married: William de Vaux, d 1364 Lord of Dirleton, 2nd John, Lord Vaux, of Dirleton.

Children

1. William de Vaux, Lord Dirleton+ d. 1392.
2. Andrew Vaux+. Father of Andrew Vaux.
3. Thomas de Vaux.

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Vaux-101

William married Catherine Douglas.[1] They had issue:

1. Thomas, was killed at the siege of Berwick in 1355.
2. John, second son, alleged to have continued on this line of descent.
3. William
4. Agatha who married a Haliburton.[1][2]

Notes

William22 de Vans: William was one of the Scottish prisoners taken at the Battle of Durham. After being held in England as a prisoner, he returned to Scotland and was prominent in affairs there. He was a party to the ransom of King David II and was a principal in other negotiations and treaties between Scotland and England.

William married Catherine Douglas. Their first son, Thomas, was killed at the siege of Berwick, 1355. Their second son, Johannis carried on the line of descent.

Citations

1. [S8196] The History of the Hereditary Sheriffs of Galloway, by Sir Andrew Agnew, 1864.
2. [S11620] The Douglas Archives http://www.douglashistory.co.uk/history/arch3rdearldouglas.htm
3. http://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p1175.htm#...
4. < Stirnet: ‘Douglas01’ >Children of Archibald Douglas and Joanna Moray: … D. Catherine Douglas possibly of this generation, of this marriage -- m. William de Vaux of Dirleton (d 1392)
5. http://matsonfamily.net/welchancestry/family_vance.htm
6. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Douglas-415 cites
   1. Balbirnie, William, "An Account, Historical and Genealogical, from the Earliest Days till the Present Time, of the Family of Vance in Ireland, Vans in Scotland, Anciently Vaux in Scotland and England, and Originally De Vaux in France, (Latin De Vallibus)", Cork: J. M. Noblett, 1860, < Archive.org > , p. 14
   2. Robert, Vans-Agnew,Sketch of a Genealogical and Historical Account of the Family of Vaux, Vans, or De Vallibus, Pembroke: W.E. Wilmot, 1800. < Archive.org >, p. 27. Williemus de Vallibus, son of John, married Catherine Douglas. (Her parents are not mentioned)