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Sholto Douglas was the mythical progenitor of Clan Douglas, a
powerful and warlike family in medieval Scotland.
A mythical battle
took place: "in 767, between King Solvathius rightful king of Scotland
and a pretender Donald Bane. The victory was so nearly Donald's when a
certain noble man, disdaining to see so bad a cause have good successe,
struck in for the king and turned the fortunes of the day. When the king
inquired about the knight who had done such valuable service, somebody
exclaimed 'Sholto du glasse!'...'Behold the black gray man!'."
In
the story of Sholto Douglas, his youngest son,
Marius Douglas is a
commander of forces sent by the mythical Scottish king Achaius (2), to the
court of Charlemagne to aid him in his wars against Desiderius, King of
the Lombards. Marius Douglas is said to have settled in Piacenza where
his descendants became powerful local magnates, and eventual leaders of
the Guelf faction of that city.
Notes:
1.
Dr. Deborah Richmond Foulkes, FSAScot contributes: Sholto appears to have
been real...lands tracing to him are in Lanarkshire but not of the
Douglas barony. His son according to 17th c. letters from Count Marco
Antonio Douglas Scotti of Agazzano, Italy began the Douglas Scotti line
in Piacenza.
2. Mythical? It is recorded by George
Buchanan in his work Rerum Scoticarum Historia that
Solvathius, The LXIV King, himself the Son of Eugenius the 8th,
was succeeded by Achaius, The LXV King.
ACHAIVS was the Son of Etfinus, was succeeded by Congallus
III, The Sixty Sixth King.
CONGALLVS, his Cousin German, reigned five years and was
succeeded by Dongallus, or
Douglas, The Sixty
Seventh King.
See also:
• Douglas Scotti
di Vigoleno
• Scotti Douglas
•
Footprints of the Douglas Scotti
• Origin of the Douglases
•
Origins of the Douglas family
in Italy
• Italian members of the Douglas
family
Sources
Sources for this article include:
• Ane Historie of the House and Race of Douglas and Angus, David Hume of
Godscroft, Edinburgh 1646.
Any contributions will be
gratefully accepted
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