DOUGLAS, Elizabeth 1 2
User ID: Y721. Elizabeth married John STEWART Earl of Buchan, son of Robert STEWART Duke of Albany, Earl of Fife and Menteith and Muriella KEITH. (John STEWART Earl of Buchan was born about 1381 and died on 17 August 1424 in Battle of Verneuil, France.) Elizabeth next married Thomas STEWART Master of Mar, son of Alexander STEWART Earl of Mar and Garioch, jure uxoris and Unknown.1 (Thomas STEWART Master of Mar was born about 1390 and died before 1435(dvp) 1.) Marriage Notes: "The Earl (Alexander Stewart) had no family by either of his wives, but he had a natural son Thomas, and he obtained from King James I., on 28 May 1426, a charter granting the earldom of Mar and the lordship of the Garioch to himself and his son with reversion to the King and his heirs. The King also in the following January granted or continued to him the lordship of Badenoch for life. He died in 1435, without lawful issue, his son Thomas, who had married Elizabeth Douglas, widow of John Stewart, Earl of Buchan .... without issue, having predeceased him." Elizabeth next married William SINCLAIR 3rd Earl of Orkney, Earl of Caithness, Lord Sinclair, son of Henry SINCLAIR 2nd Earl of Orkney and Egidia DOUGLAS.2 (William SINCLAIR 3rd Earl of Orkney, Earl of Caithness, Lord Sinclair was born about 1409.) Marriage Notes: "WILLIAM SINCLAIR of Newburgh, commonly known as 'The Waster,' was the eldest son of the said William, Earl of Caithness, by his first marriage with Elizabeth Douglas, daughter of Archibald, fourth Earl of Douglas. He was disinherited by his father, who, on 7 December 1476, resigned his lands of the earldom of Caithness in the hands of the King, from whom he obtained a new grant with remainder to William, the eldest son of his second marriage." |