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• Hij is geboren rond 1424 in Douglas, Lanarkshire, Scotland.
• Titel: 6th Earl of Douglas, Earl of Wigtown, Lord of Galloway, Bothwell, Selk
• Titel: Duke of Touraine, Count of Longueville, Lord of Dun-le-Roi
• (Ancestry) : House of Douglas.
• Hij is overleden op 24 november 1440 in Edinburgh Castle, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland.

  Beheaded

• Hij is begraven in het jaar 1440 in St Bride, Douglas, Lanarkshire, Scotland.
• Een kind van Archibald DOUGLAS en Eupheme GRAHAM

Gezin van William DOUGLAS

Hij had een relatie met Janet LINDSAY.

Notities over William DOUGLAS

William, 6th Earl of Douglas (c. 1424 - 24 November 1440) was a short-lived Scottish nobleman. In addition to his Earldom of Douglas, he was Earl of Wigtown, Lord of Galloway, Lord of Bothwell, Selkirk and Ettrick Forest, Eskdale, Lauderdale, and Annandale in Scotland, and de jure Duke of Touraine, Count of Longueville, and Lord of Dun-le-roi in France. He was the eldest son of Archibald Douglas, 5th Earl of Douglas and Lady Eupheme Graham.

He married Lady Janet Lindsay, daughter of David, Earl of Crawford, and succeeded to the earldom on the death of his father, who had served as regent of James II. Following Archibald Douglas's death, Sir William Crichton, Sir Alexander Livingston of Callendar, and James Douglas, Earl of Avondale (William Douglas's great-uncle) shared power. Together they conspired to break the power of the late Archibald Douglas's family, and summoned William and his younger brother David to Edinburgh. The so-called 'Black Dinner' which followed saw the two boys summarily beheaded on trumped up charges, over the protests of the young King James II.

The lordships of Annandale and Bothwell fell to the crown; Galloway to Margaret Douglas (William Douglas's sister), and the Douglas lands and earldom passed to William's great-uncle James Douglas, the Earl of Avondale, who was accordingly seen later as the main perpetrator.
SOURCE: Wikipedia

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