Abt 1552 - 1611 (~ 59 years)
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| Name |
William (10th Earl of Angus) Douglas |
| Birth |
Abt 1552 |
| Gender |
Male |
| Death |
3 Mar 1611 |
Paris, France  |
| Burial |
St. Germain DE Pr?s, Paris, Seine, France |
| Person ID |
I119619 |
My Genealogy |
| Last Modified |
17 Nov 2020 |
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| Notes |
- Son of the Ninth Earl.This Douglas was born 1554 and rather early in life joined the household of Earl Morton. Coming into contact with Huntly and Errol, he joined in a plot to restore the Catholic religion in Scotland, having turned Catholic. He was disinherited by his father but subsequently came into the title and estates. In 1592 he gets into trouble over the Spanish Succession, in which Bothwell and his friends were interested.
Later we find him as King's Lieutenant in the North of Scotland, and the following year imprisoned in Edinburgh Castle for treason, when with the assistance of his Countess he escapes. Now he joins Huntly and Errol in an insurrection in the North, which being unsuccessful, he is persuaded to renounce the Catholic faith to avert punishment. He was reinstated in all his former honors in 1597, made a Privy Councillor, and the King's Lieutenant of Southern Scotland. In the "Raids of Dumfries" he proved his loyalty to the King against the Johnstones, and was rewarded. He slipped again, turning Catholic in 1608 and mixing with his old associates, he was banished, and died in 1611, in Paris.
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