Archibald Douglas, 4th Earl of Douglas

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Seal of the 4th Earl of Douglas around 1400

Archibald Douglas, 4th Earl of Douglas , called the Tyneman (the loser) (* approx. 1370 - August 17, 1424 in Verneuil ) was a Scottish nobleman and French Duke of Touraine .

Life

He was a son of Archibald Douglas, 3rd Earl of Douglas , and his wife Lady Joan Moray. He followed his father in 1401 as Earl of Douglas and also as Warden of the Marches .

The Earl commanded Scotland's invading army in the war against England in 1401. In the Battle of Homildon Hill on September 14, 1402 he was wounded five times, lost one eye and was imprisoned for three years by Henry Hotspur , whom he eventually joined in the rebellion against the English King Henry IV .

In 1409 Archibald acquired the feudal barony of Annandale . In March 1424, he landed with an army in support of the French in the Hundred Years War in La Rochelle . On April 19, 1424 in France for his services to the Duc de Touraine . With the award, a French duke title was for the first time awarded to a person who did not belong to the French royal family. He fell on August 17, 1424 at the Battle of Verneuil against John of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Bedford . Douglas is buried in Tours Cathedral .

progeny

From around 1390 Archibald was married to Margaret, Lady of Galloway, daughter of the Scottish King Robert III. with whom he had the following children:

  1. ∞ John Stewart, 3rd Earl of Buchan
  2. ∞ John Stewart of Mar
  3. ∞ William Sinclair, 1st Earl of Caithness

Individual evidence

  1. ^ John Maitland Thomson (Ed.): Registrum Magni Sigilli Regum Scotorum. The Register of the Great Seal of Scotland. Volume I, Edinburgh 1920, No. 920, p. 396. ( babel.hathitrust.org )
  2. ^ Trevor Royle: The Wars of the Roses. England's first civil war. Abacus, London 2009, ISBN 978-0-349-11790-4 , p. 443.

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predecessor Office successor
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Domaine royal Duc de Touraine
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personal data
SURNAME Douglas, Archibald, 4th Earl of Douglas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Duke of Touraine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Scottish nobleman
DATE OF BIRTH around 1370
DATE OF DEATH August 17, 1424
Place of death Verneuil-sur-Avre