Archibald Douglas of Glenbervie

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Sir Archibald Douglas of Glenbervie (1513 – 18 September 1570) was a Scottish nobleman.

Biography[edit]

Douglas was the only son of Sir William Douglas of Glenbervie and Elizabeth Auchinleck.[1] Douglas was born at Glenbervie at some point before his father's death at the Battle of Flodden.

Family[edit]

He married first, Agnes Keith, daughter of William Keith, 3rd Earl Marischal, who died between 1542 and 1548. He married secondly, Elizabeth Irvine, daughter of Sir Alexander Irvine of Drum.[1][2] He married as his third wife Margaret Carmichael. She was a sister of Elizabeth Carmichael (1514–1550) who was a mistress of James V and later married John Somerville of Cambusnethan.[3]

With his first wife they had William Douglas, 9th Earl of Angus, and with his second wife he had further two sons and six daughters.[2]

His daughter with Elizabeth Irvine, Katherine or Sara Douglas, married Sir John Carmichael.[4]

Notes[edit]

  1. ^ a b Burke & Burke 1848, pedigree CLXXXV.
  2. ^ a b Douglas 1798, p. 19.
  3. ^ David Reid, David Hume of Godscroft's History of the House of Angus, vol. 2 (Edinburgh, 2005), p. 416.
  4. ^ David Reid, David Hume of Godscroft's History of the House of Angus, vol. 2 (Edinburgh, 2005), p. 416.

References[edit]

  • 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, p. 19

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