James Douglas(1286 - 1330) SirJames"The Good Sir James, The Black Douglas"Douglas Born1286inDouglas Castle, Douglas, Lanarkshire, Scotland Ancestors SonofWilliam (Douglas) Douglas Vth of Douglas KntandElizabeth Stewart Brother ofHugh (Douglas) de Douglas[half]andArchibald Douglas[half] ...
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Such was his power, Lennox, managed to arrange the execution of the regent, James Douglas, 4th Earl of Morton. James was kidnapped by William Ruthven, 1st Earl of Gowrie, and Lennox was banished from Scotland. (16)Portrait of James in 1586 James was released in June 1583, and over the...
Born 9 November 1924 in Glasgow, Scotland, Jim Morrison FRACI CChem spent his childhood in Broughty Ferry, Scotland. Jim started at Glasgow University in 1942, in the middle of World War 2, graduating in 1945 (a four-year honours course completed in 2 years 9 months because of military ...
^David Menarry, 'Douglas, James, second Marquess of Douglas (c.1646–1700)’,Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004. ^Anderson, William (1863).The Scottish Nation or the Surnames, Families, Literature, Honours and Biographical History of The People of Scotland. ...
Sir James Douglas(bornc.1286—died Aug. 25, 1330, Spain) was thelordof the Douglas family and champion of Robert de Bruce (KingRobert Iof Scotland). Son of Sir William Douglas (d.c.1298), who was captured by the English and died in theTower of London, Sir James was educated in Pa...
The |Cleanse the Causeway' affair was the mechanism by which the Hamiltons and their perpetual enemies the Douglases, resolved the control of Scotland during the minority of James V, in a short but bloody street brawl, eschewing the civil wars preferred on the Continent. In November 1528, Fin...
“That’s because his name wasn’t really James Currie,” Evie said solemnly with a grown intensity in her movement, “I got the original footage from a bank vault in Great Portland Street, London. The vault was my grandfather’s. His name was John Douglas.” ...
James finally assumed his royal duties upon his marriage to Mary of Gueldres in 1449. His first task was the restoration of monarchical authority. He immediately seized the Livingston estates, but he maintained an uneasy peace with the powerful Douglas family until 1450, when he quarreled with ...
Young James Herriot: Created by Caleb Ranson. With Iain De Caestecker, Amy Manson, Ben Lloyd-Hughes, Gary Lewis. The university days of the vet, James Herriot, set in 1933 Glasgow, Scotland.