Lady Margaret Douglas

• Lady Margaret Douglas1
• F, #108002, d. 1640
• Last Edited=12 Apr 2011
• Consanguinity Index=1.62%
• Lady Margaret Douglas was the daughter of David Douglas, 7th Earl of Angus and Margaret Hamilton.1 She married by contract, firstly, Sir Walter Scott, 4th of Buccleuch, son of Sir William Scott of Kirkurd and Buccleuch, younger and Grizel Bethune, on 19 June 1568.1 She married, secondly, Francis Stewart, 1st and last Earl of Bothwell, son of John Stewart, 1st Lord Darnley and Lady Jean Hepburn, before 1 July 1592.2 She died in 1640.1 She was buried at Eckford, England.2
• From after 19 June 1568, her married name became Scott. From before 1 July 1592, her married name became Stewart.
• Child of Lady Margaret Douglas and Sir Walter Scott, 4th of Buccleuch
  • Sir Walter Scott, 1st Lord Scott of Buccleuch+3 b. 1565, d. 15 Dec 1611
• Children of Lady Margaret Douglas and Francis Stewart, 1st and last Earl of Bothwell
  • Lady Margaret Stewart
  • Elizabeth Stewart
  • John Stewart+
  • Lady Jean Stewart+
  • Helen Stewart
  • Francis Stewart, Master of Bothwell+4 b. 1584, d. 1639
• Citations
• [S8] BP1999 volume 1, page 1282. See link for full details for this source. Hereinafter cited as. [S8]
• [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 II, page 240. Hereinafter cited as The Complete Peerage.
• [S6] Cokayne, and others, The Complete Peerage, volume II, page 364.
• [S6] Cokayne, and others, The Complete Peerage, volume II, page 241.
• From: http://www.thepeerage.com/p10801.htm#i108002 _____________
• Name Margaret (of Angus) Douglas
• Died 1640
• Father David (of Cockburnspath) (7th Earl of Angus) Douglas, b. Abt 1515, Pittendriech, Lasswade, Midlotian, Scotland Find all individuals with events at this location, d. Jun 1557, Cockburnspath, Berwickshire, Scotland Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 42 years)
• Mother Margaret Hamilton
• Family 1 Walter (Sir) (of Buccleuch) Scott, b. Abt 1549, d. 17 Apr 1574 (Age ~ 25 years)
• Children
  • 1. Sir Walter (1st Lord) Scott, d. 15 Dec 1611
• Family 2 Francis (1st Earl of Bothwell) Stewart, b. 1563, d. Abt 1612 (Age 49 years)
• Married Bef 1 Jul 1592
• Children
  • 1. Margaret (of Bothwell) Stewart, d. Dsp Find all individuals with events at this location
  • 2. Elizabeth (of Bothwell) Stewart
• Sources
• [S883] Hamish Maclaren.
• From: http://www.douglashistory.co.uk/famgen/getperson.php?personID=I4929... __________________________
• Walter Scott, 4th Baron of Buccleuch (1549–1574) was head of the Border family of Scott and, despite his youth, played a prominent part in the turbulent politics of 16th century Scotland.
• Scott was the eldest son of Sir William Scott of Kirkurd, Younger of Buccleuch (died 1552), who was himself the son of Walter Scott, 3rd of Buccleuch (who was murdered on 4 October 1552, having been pre-deceased by his son). His mother was Grisel, second daughter of John Betoun of Creich.[1]
• Scott succeeded his grandfather at the age of only three. His uncle, Walter Scott of Goldielands, a natural half-brother of his father, led the Scotts during his minority.[1]
• On 24 March 1566, Queen Mary appointed him captain of Newark Castle, Selkirkshire, whereupon he supported her with a force of over 3,000 men.[1] In January 1570 (in reliance upon the distraction likely to be caused by the assassination of the Regent Moray, of which he had advance knowledge), he engaged in depredations on the English side of the Border. By way of retaliation the English, under the Earl of Sussex and Lord Scrope, destroyed his stronghold at Branxholme Castle.[2] Scott rebuilt the castle in the following year.[1]
• He was a principal leader of the raid to Stirling on 4 September 1571, when an attempt was made to seize the Regent Lennox, who was slain by one of the Hamiltons during the mêlée. Buccleuch, who had interposed to save the Regent Morton, his kinsman, whom the Hamiltons intended also to have slain, was during the retreat taken prisoner by Morton, and was for some time confined in Doune Castle in Menteith.[2]
• Scott died at Branxholme on 17 April 1574.[1]
• Scott married Margaret Douglas, daughter of David Douglas, 7th Earl of Angus. (She survived him and married secondly Francis Stewart, 5th Earl of Bothwell.) They had three children:[1]
  • Walter Scott, later 1st Lord Scott of Buccleuch
  • Margaret (sometimes, though doubtfully, said to be married to Robert Scott of Thirlestane)
  • Mary, who married William Elliott of Lariston
• From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Scott,_4th_of_Buccleuch ________________
• Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, Volume 51
• Scott, Walter (1565-1611) by Thomas Finlayson Henderson
• SCOTT, WALTER, first Lord Scott of Buccleugh (1565–1611), born in 1565, was the only son of Sir Walter Scott of Buccleuch (d. 1574), by his wife, Lady Margaret Douglas, eldest daughter of David, seventh earl of Angus, who afterwards married Francis Stewart Hepburn, fifth earl of Bothwell. The father, who latterly became a devoted adherent of Mary Queen of Scots, was privy to the design for the assassination of the regent Moray, and, counting on its occurrence, set out the day before with Ker of Ferniehirst on a devastating raid into England. In revenge his lands were laid waste by the Earl of Sussex and Lord Scrope, and his castle of Branxholm blown up with gunpowder. He was a principal leader of the raid to Stirling on 4 Sept. 1571, when an attempt was made to seize the regent Lennox, who was slain by one of the Hamiltons during the mêlée. Buccleuch, who had interposed to save the regent Morton, his kinsman, whom the Hamiltons intended also to have slain, was during the retreat taken prisoner by Morton (Diurnal of Occurrents, p. 248), and was for some time confined in the castle of Doune in Menteith (Reg. P. C. Scotl. ii. 156).
• The son succeeded his father on 17 April 1574, and on 21 June was infeft in the baronies of Branxholm as heir to David Scott, his grandfather's brother. Being a minor, the Earl of Morton—failing whom, the Earl of Angus—was appointed his guardian. On account of a feud between Scott and Lord Hay, both were on 19 Aug. 1586 ordered to find caution of 10,000l. each for their good behaviour (ib. iv. 98). On 2 June 1587 he and other border chiefs were summoned to appear before the privy council on 9 June to answer ‘touching good rule and quietness to be observed on the borders hereafter, under pain of treason’ (ib. p. 183); and on the 9th Robert Scott gave caution for him in five thousand merks that he would appear on the 21st (ib. p. 189). Towards the close of the year he and the laird of Cessford were, however, committed to ward for making incursions in England (Calderwood, History, iv. 641); but on 13 Dec. he found caution in 10,000l. that on being liberated from the castle of Edinburgh he would by 10 Jan. find surety for the relief of the king and his wardens of ‘all attempts against the peace of England bygone and to come’ (Reg. P. C. Scotl. iv. 234).
• .... etc.
• From: http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Scott,_Walter_(1565-1611)_(DNB00) ________________
• Francis Stewart, 5th Earl of Bothwell (c.December 1562 – November 1612) was Commendator of Kelso Abbey and Coldingham Priory, a Privy Counsellor and Lord High Admiral of Scotland. Like his stepfather, Archibald Douglas, Parson of Douglas, he was a notorious conspirator, who died in disgrace. Francis was the first cousin of King James VI of Scotland (they were both grandsons of James V of Scotland). Francis's maternal uncle James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell was the chief suspect of having murdered James VI's father Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley.
• Francis Stewart was a son of John Stewart, Prior of Coldingham (d. 1563), who was an illegitimate child of James V of Scotland by his mistress Elizabeth Carmichael. Francis' mother was Jane Hepburn, Mistress of Caithness, Lady Morham (d. 1599), sister of James Hepburn, 1st Duke of Orkney and 4th Earl of Bothwell. Francis is said to have been born in his mother's tower house at Morham. In 1565 Mary Queen of Scots gave Francis a set of red serge bed curtains.[1]
• .... etc.
• Bothwell lived in poverty in Naples where he died in November 1612. The English ambassador in Venice, Dudley Carleton, reported that Bothwell died at Naples after hearing news of the death of Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales, who he had hoped would restore his fortune. The Spanish Viceroy of Naples, Pedro Fernández de Castro y Andrade arranged a lavish funeral for the Scottish earl.[8]
• On 1 December 1577, Francis, Earl Bothwell married Margaret (d. 1640), daughter of David Douglas, 7th Earl of Angus, and widow of Sir Walter Scott, of Branxholme & Buccleuch (d. 1574). Initially, after a brief honeymoon, the new earl was not permitted to come within twenty miles of his new wife 'for reassone of his youngnes'. (Adv. Man. 35.4.2) They later had, at least, four sons and four daughters.
  • Francis, Lord Stewart, Bothwell and Commendator of Kelso Abbey (b. 1584) - After his father's death, in spite of the attainder, he is occasionally styled 'Earl Bothwell', and Lord Stewart and Bothwell. Upon his marriage to Isobel, daughter of Robert Seton, 1st Earl of Winton, he obtained a rehabilitation under the Great Seal of Scotland, dated at Whitehall, 30 July 1614, but reserving the rights of those who had been granted his father's forfeited lands. (The rehabilitation was not formally ratified by Parliament until 1633). In 1630 he was 'absent from the country'. He finally obtained recovery, by decreet arbitral of Charles I, of part of the family estates, which he then sold to the Winton family. He lived in straitened circumstances, in 1637 petitioning King Charles 1st to be made Printer to the King in Ireland for 51 years. When he died his Testament-Dative was given in by his creditors at Edinburgh on 21 April 1640. His eldest son, generally called Charles (b. 1617), fought in the Civil War, but is said to have died in England after the Battle of Worcester in 1651,[9] and on 26 November 1656, his brother Robert was cited as the heir to their father's debts when the barony of Coldingham was acquired by the Home of Renton family;[10] he, too, appears to have died without issue, and their unmarried sister was regarded as the last of the line.[11][12]
  • John (2nd son), the last Commendator of Coldingham Priory and 1st secular feudal Baron of Coldingham. On 16 June 1622 he transferred the barony to his elder brother, Francis. John was still living in April 1636, and apparently into the 1650s, when he is mentioned by Sir John Scott of Scotstarvet in The Staggering State of the Scottish Statesman,[13] but he seems to have been dead by 1656, when a grandson named Francis was described as his heir in the transaction at Coldingham mentioned above;[14] John Stewart also had a daughter Margaret, married to Sir John Home, Lord Renton, who was the actual beneficiary of the transaction; their descendants are described as the heirs-general of the Earls of Bothwell.[15][16] John Stewart of Coldingham is also identified as the father of Francis Stewart of Coldingham, "grandson of the Earl of Bothwell", who became a trooper in the Scottish Life Guards after the Restoration, gained a captain's commission in the Scots Greys, and commanded the left wing at the Battle of Bothwell Brig in 1679, but who died around 1683.[15][17][18] There seems to be no absolutely definitive evidence to confirm this identification, however, and it is possible that this was the cavalryman son of the titular 6th Earl, who is called "Francis" by Scott of Scotstarvet.[13]
  • Frederick, (3rd son) (b. 1594) mentioned in the Privy Council Registers in 1612 (vol. ix, p. 498).
  • Henry (Harry), (4th son) (b. 1594?) signed many documents with his elder brothers, and who, in 1627, consented to a lease. Possibly twin with Frederick.
  • Elizabeth (b. 1590) (eldest daughter) married James, Master of Cranstoun (appears to have been banished in 1610); they were the parents of William Cranstoun, 3rd Lord Cranstoun.[15][19]
  • Helen, married John Macfarlane of that Ilk.
  • Jean (d. after 1624) married Robert Elliot of Redheugh.
  • Margaret, married Allan Cathcart, 5th Lord Cathcart.
• .... etc.
• From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Stewart,_5th_Earl_of_Bothwell _______________
• Angus, Earl of (S, 1389)
• David [Douglas], 7th Earl of Angus
• born c.1515
• mar. 8 May 1552 Margaret Johnstone (widow of James Johnstone, Yr. of Johnstone; mar. (3) Sir Patrick Whitelaw of that Ilk), dau. of Sir John Hamilton of Clydesdale (by his wife Hon Janet Home, only surv dau. and hrss. of Alexander [Home], 3rd Lord Home), illegitimate son of James [Hamilton], 1st Earl of Arran
• children
  • 1. Hon Archibald Douglas, later 8th Earl of Angus
  • 1. Lady Margaret Douglas (d. 1640), mar. (1) 19 Jan 1567/8 Sir Walter Scott of Buccleuch (d. 17 Apr 1574), and (2) bef. 1 Jul 1592 Francis [Stewart], 1st Earl of Bothwell, and had issue by both husbands
  • 2. Lady Elizabeth Douglas (d. Feb 1636/7), mar. (1) 17 Feb 1571/2 John [Maxwell], 7th Lord Maxwell, (2) as his second wife Sir Alexander Stewart of Garlies, and (3) bef. 17 Apr 1598 John Wallace of Craigie, and had issue by her first husband
• died Jun 1557
• suc. by son
• From: http://www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk/online/content/angus1389.htm#ANGU... _____________________
• Scott of Buccleuch, Lord (S, 1606)
• Walter [Scott], 1st Lord Scott of Buccleuch, PC
• only son and heir of Sir Walter Scot of Buccleuch and Branxholme, by his wife Lady Margaret Douglas, 1st dau. of David [Douglas], 7th Earl of Angus
• born 1565
• mar. after 1 Oct 1586 Margaret Ker (d. after 1611), sister of Robert [Ker], 1st Earl of Roxburghe, and dau. of Sir William Ker of Cessford by his wife Janet Douglas, dau. of Sir William Douglas of Drumlanrig
• children
  • 1. Hon Walter Scott, later 2nd Lord Scott of Buccleuch later 1st Earl of Buccleuch
  • 1. Hon Margaret Scott (d. 5 Oct 1651), mar. (1) after 19 Dec 1614 James [Ross], 6th Lord Ross, and (2) betw. Nov 1642 and Mar 1642/3 as his second wife Alexander [Seton later Montgomerie], 6th Earl of Eglinton, and had issue by her first husband
  • 2. Hon Elizabeth Scott (dsp. after 30 Jun 1619 and before 23 Apr 1623), mar. after 22 Nov 1616 as his first wife John [Cranstoun], 2nd Lord Cranstoun
  • 3. Hon Jean Scott (d. after 21 Sep 1613)
• died 15 Dec 1611
• created 18 Mar 1605/6 Lord Scott of Buccleuch
• suc. by son
• note knighted 1590; Warden of the West Marches, Keeper of Liddesdale, etc. 1590; captured by the English 1597; served in the Netherlands under Maurice, Prince of Orange; Privy Councillor [S] 1611
• From: http://www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk/online/content/scott1606.htm?zoom... __________
• Links
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Douglas,_7th_Earl_of_Angus
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Scott,_1st_Lord_Scott_of_Buccl...

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