The Earls of Angus remained loyal to James II even as their kinsmen, the Black Douglases, were making war on him. George, 4th Earl of Angus led the King's Army against his kinsman, James, 9th Earl of Douglas, at the Battle of Arkinholm in 1455. The result was the end of the Black Douglases. After the battle an act of parliament gave Angus the lordship of Douglas with the original possessions of his ancestors in Douglasdale. The 4th Earl died in 1463.

• Death: 12 MAY 1463
  
  Father: William (2nd Earl of Angus) Douglas b: ABT. 1398
  Mother: Margaret (of Locherwort & Yester) Hay
  
  Marriage 1 Isabel Sibbald b: ABT. 1418
  • Married: BEF. 1446
  Children
  1. Margaret (of Angus) Douglas b: ABT. 1456
  2. Archibald (5th Earl of Angus) Douglas b: 1453
  3. Jane (of Angus) Douglas
  4. Anne (of Angus) Douglas
  5.   Elizabeth (of Angus) Douglas

     1.     m Alexander (of Dalhousie) Ramsay
     2.     m Thomas Livingstone
     3.     m Robert (2nd of Fintry) Graham

  6. Janet (of Angus) Douglas, m George (2nd Earl of Rothes) Leslie

Collins Peerage of England, 1812 has George Douglas of Bonjedward as a son of George, 4th Earl of Angus