1st of Cavers; Regent of Scotland
Son of James, 2nd Earl of
Douglas. When the 2nd Earl died at the
Battle of Otterburn, his estates were
divided between his illegitimates sons,
William, who got Drumlanrig, and Archibald, who received Cavers.
Archibald Douglas carried his father's standard at the battle of Otterburn,
and defended it with success against the repeated attacks of the English.
He had from his father the lands and barony of Cavers, with the
heritable sheriffship of Teviotdale. It seems that the superiority remained
at first with the Countess of Mar, and that Archibald had from her a new
charter of the lands and sheriffship without procuring the royal sanction,
by which neglect they recognosced to the King, and were conferred by him on
Sir David Fleming of Biggar in 1405. But as Fleming did not long survive
that date, it does not appear whether he ever took possession.
Sir
Archibald afterwards obtained from King James I. a charter of confirmation,
dated at Croydon, 30th November 1412, proceeding upon a charter granted to
him by his aunt, Lady Isabel, Countess of Mar, in her widowhood, in which
the superiority is resigned.
Sir Archibald sided with the Red Douglases of Angus against the Black Douglases.
Children of Sir Archibald DOUGLAS and Margaret:
- William, 2nd of Cavers
Eleanor m. Sir Patrick Hepburne of Hailes;
Elizabeth m. Alexander STEWART of Garlieston
He died in the reign of James I., and was succeeded by his son.
See also Douglas of Cavers
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