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Personal data William "Long Leg" Lord of Douglas, Scottish Nobleman 

• Alternative names: William Douglas, William "Longleg" Douglas, Lord of Douglas
• He was born in the year 1220 in Douglas Castle, Douglas, Lanarkshire, Scotland.Source 2

  Attention: Age at marriage (??-??-1233) below 16 years (13).

• Profession: Scot-Norman nobleman.
• He died on October 16, 1274 in Douglas Castle, Douglas, Lanarkshire, Scotland, he was 54 years old.Source 2
• He is buried in Douglas, South Lanarkshire, Scotland.Source 2
• A child of Sir Archibald Douglas, 2nd Lord of Douglas and Margaret de Crawford, Lady of Douglas

Household of William "Long Leg" Lord of Douglas, Scottish Nobleman

(1) He is married to Martha de Carrick.

They got married in the year 1233 at Hermiston, Midlothian, Scotland, he was 13 years old.

(2) He is married to Constance Battail (Bataille) of Fawdon.

They got married in the year 1255 at Carrick, Argyll and Bute, Scotland, he was 35 years old.

Child(ren):

1. Sir William "The Hardy" "le Hardi" Douglas, Lord of Douglas  1255-1298 
2. Willelma Douglas  1255-1302 
3. Hugh Douglas  1261-1274

Notes about William "Long Leg" Lord of Douglas, Scottish Nobleman

Sir William of Douglas was born in 1240. He was the son of Archibald of Douglas. He died in 1274.

Children of Sir William of Douglas

Sir William 'Le Hardi' of Douglas d. 1298
Hugh of Douglas1 b. b 1274, d. 1289

Citations

1. [S6] G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume IV, page 432. Hereinafter cited as The Complete Peerage.

http://thepeerage.com/p10950.htm#i109494

William, Lord of Douglas (c. 1220 – c. 1274) known as 'Longleg' was a Scoto-Norman nobleman.

The years of the minority of King Alexander III (1249–1262) featured an embittered struggle for the control of affairs between two rival parties, the one led by the nationalistic Walter Comyn, Earl of Menteith, the other by pro-English Alan Durward, Justiciar of Scotia. The former dominated the early years of Alexander's reign. In 1255 an interview between the English and Scottish kings at Kelso led to Menteith and his party losing to Durward's party. Later both parties called a Meeting of the great Magnates of the Realm to establish a regency until Alexander came of age. William Lord of Douglas was one of the magnates called to witness. Douglas was a partisan of Durward's party. This can be explained by the fact that although most of his territories lay in Douglasdale, through his wife, Constance, he had obtained the rich Manor of Fawdon in Northumberland and it would do well to keep English Royal favour.

David Hume of Godscroft, the arch-panegyricist of the House of Douglas, states that Longleg married Marjorie, Countess of Carrick and had by her two sons and a daughter, the daughter inheriting the Earldom of Carrick. Marjorie went on to marry Robert the Bruce, father to King Robert I of Scotland, this however does not make any sense historically.

William Longleg, Lord of Douglas, died c. 1274, and is said to have married Marjory de Abernethy, daughter of Orm de Abernethy leaving two sons:

Hugh I, Lord of Douglas, d. c. 1274

William the Hardy, Lord of Douglas (1240-1298)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Longleg,_Lord_of_Douglas

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