Douglas explained his circumstances and immediately offered his services The site is traditionally believed to be the summit of a hill in Dumfries and Galloway, that is now known as the Crown of Scotland. riding on a horse borrowed from Bishop Lamberton. It was while he was on his way to Glasgow to meet with Bishop Wishart, and then to Scone, the traditional site of Scottish coronations, that he was met by Douglas. Less than seven weeks after the killing in Dumfries, Bruce was crowned King on 25 March. Bruce immediately claimed the crown of Scotland, in defiance of the English king. This was a particularly dramatic moment in Scottish history: Robert Bruce, earl of Carrick had slain John Comyn, a leading Scottish rival, on 6 February 1306 at Greyfriars Kirk in Dumfries. In John Barbour's rhyming chronicle, The Brus, as much a paean to the young knight as the hero king, Douglas makes his feelings plain to Lamberton Lamberton presented him at the occupying English court to petition for the return of his land shortly after the capture of Stirling Castle in 1304, but when Edward I of England heard whose son he was he grew angry and Douglas was forced to depart.įor Douglas, who now faced life as a landless outcast on the fringes of feudal society, the return of his ancestral estates was to become an overriding consideration, inevitably impacting on his political allegiances. His lands had been seized and awarded to Robert Clifford. There he met William Lamberton, Bishop of St. His father remarried in late 1288 so Douglas' birth had to be prior to that however, the destruction of records in Scotland makes an exact date or even year impossible to pinpoint.ĭouglas was sent to France for safety in the early days of the Wars of Independence, and was educated in Paris. His mother was Elizabeth Stewart, the daughter of Alexander Stewart, 4th High Steward of Scotland, who died circa 1287 or early 1288. He was the eldest son of Sir William Douglas, known as "le Hardi" or "the bold", who had been the first noble supporter of William Wallace (the elder Douglas died circa 1298, a prisoner in the Tower of London). He was one of the chief commanders during the Wars of Scottish Independence. 1286 1330) was a Scottish knight and feudal lord. Sir James Douglas (also known as Good Sir James and the Black Douglas) (c. ParentsSir William Douglas, Elizabeth Stewart, daughter of Alexander, High Steward of ScotlandĪ Victorian depiction of Sir James (third right), and other leaders of the Wars of Independence by William Brassey Hole OccupationScottish Guerrilla Leader and General, during the Wars of Scottish IndependenceĬhildrenWilliam IV, Lord of Douglas, Archibald the Grim Tomb of Sir James, St Bride's Kirk, Douglas. St Bride's Church Douglas - The Good Sir James.jpg Malcolm Mor, 4th Earl of Lennox 1255-1291.With Malcolm 3rd Earl Of Lennox ca 1210-/1250 Sir David De Lindsay, Lord of Crawford ca 1289-1381.With Sir Alexander De Lindsay, Lord of Crawford ca 1250-1308/ On the side of Elizabeth Stewart ca 1245. On the side of Sir William 'Le Hardi' Of Douglas ca 1256-1297
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