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About Unknown mistress of James Douglas
James Douglas (son of William Douglas and Margaret Dunbar)311 was born 1358 in Scotland311, and died 19 Aug 1388 in Otterburn311.He married (1) Mistress.He married (2) Isabella Eupheme Stewart.
nherited the Earldoms of Douglas and Mar from his father (1384). Douglas plotted against King David II (1324 - 71), who confronted him at Lanark. He went on to make a tentative bid for the Crown on David's death in 1371. He married Isabel, the daughter of King Robert II (1316 - 90), however, he fell at the Battle of Otterburn (also known as the Battle of Chevy Chase) leaving no children. When mortally wounded he gave instructions that his body should be hidden in a bracken bush so that his opponent (Henry Percy of Northumberland, Shakespeare's Hotspur) would not take advantage from his death. Douglas left one illegitimate son, William, 1st Lord of Drumlanrig, who gave rise the the Queensberry Douglases. Children of James Douglas and Mistress are:
+William Douglas, b. Abt. 1375, Drumlanrig Castle, Durisdeer, Dumfrieshire, Scotland311, d. 1427, France311.
Elinor Douglas, d. date unknown.
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Unknown mistress of James Douglas's Timeline
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1358
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Dundonald, Ayrshire, Scotland
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1367
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Douglas, Lanarkshire, Scotland (United Kingdom)
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1378
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Drumlanrig Castle, Durisdeer Nithsdale, Dumfrieshire, Scotland
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1410
Age 52
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South Lanarkshire, United Kingdom
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