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Données personnelles William Douglas of Nithsdale 

• Il est né environ 1364 dans Dumfries, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland.
• Il est décédé environ 1392 dans Gda≈Ñsk, Gda≈Ñsk, Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland.
• Un enfant de Archibald "The Grim" Douglas et Johana MIstress of Archibald Douglas (LNU)
• Cette information a été mise à jour pour la dernière fois le 7 novembre 2019.

Famille de William Douglas of Nithsdale

Il est marié avec Egidia "Jill" Stewart.

Ils se sont mariés

Enfant(s):

1. Egidia (Jill) Douglas  ± 1380-± 1438 

• Le couple a des ancêtres communs.



Notes par William Douglas of Nithsdale



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William Douglas, Sr., of Nithsdale
Gender:
Male
Birth:
circa 1364
Dumfries, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, United Kingdom
Death:
circa 1392 (20-36)
Gdańsk, Gdańsk, Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland
Immediate Family:
Son of Archibald Douglas "The Grim", 3rd Earl of Douglas and MIstress of Archibald Douglas
Husband of Egidia "Jill" Stewart, of Lounane, Princess of Scotland
Father of Egidia (Jill) Douglas, Countess of Orkney and Sir William Douglas of Nithsdale
Half brother of Eleanor Douglas; Catherine Douglas; Jean Douglas; Joan (Joanna) Douglas; Sir James "The Gross" Douglas, VII Earl of Douglas, Earl of Balvany & I Earl of Avondalea; Archibald Douglas, 4th Earl of Douglas; Marjorie Douglas, Countess of Atholl; Helen Douglas and Lady Mary Douglas ¬´ less

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_William_Douglas_of_Nithsdale

Sir William Douglas of Nithsdale (c. 1370 ·Äì c. 1392) was a Scottish Knight and Northern Crusader.
Early life
William Douglas was an illegitimate son of Archibald the Grim, 3rd Earl of Douglas and an unknown mother.
A man of apparently dashing bearing, Douglas was with the Franco-Scots army when it unsuccessfully besieged Carlisle Castle in 1385, the defending Governor being Lord Clifford. He is recorded as there performing feats of valour and killing many Englishmen. According to Andrew of Wyntoun:
"A yhowng joly bachelere
Prysyd gretly wes off were,
For he wes evyr traveland
Qwhille be se and qwhille be land
To skathe his fays rycht besy
Swa that thai dred him grettumly" (Orygynale Cronykil of Scotland ix, c.21)

Douglas certainly had gained his spurs by 1387 when he married the Egidia (or Gelis) Stewart, princess of Scotland, a daughter of King Robert II. According to the Liber Pluscarden, Egidia Stewart's beauty was well renowned. Charles V of France had "sent a certain most subtle painter to do her portrait and portray her charms, intending to take her to wife." But the King of France and all other of Egidia's admirers had lost out to the chivalric charms of Douglas. As part of her marriage portion went the lands of Nithsdale in south-western Scotland, Herbertshire in the county of Stirling and an annuity of £300.

Within his first year of marriage the young Nithsdale led a punitive raid against Irish raiders who had been troubling the tenantry of his father's Fiefdom of Galloway. In early summer 1388, with a party of 500 well prepared veteran men-at-arms he sailed into Carlingford Lough, landed outside the town and summoned their leaders. The chief of the townsfolk offered a sum for a temporary truce, to which Nithsdale agreed. Secretly the townsfolk sent off to Dundalk for reinforcements, with which they were obliged. 800 spearmen from Dundalk surprised the Scots camp by night, and were supported by a sortie from Carlingford town. The Scots, veterans of years of brutal Border warfare, beat the Irishmen off, captured the town and burnt it, seized the Castle and captured 15 ships in the harbour. Nithsdale and his expeditionary force sailed back into Loch Ryan with enough time to participate in the raiding of Northern England that was to culminate in the Battle of Otterburn on the 19th of August, in which he fought with distinction.

The year after Otterburn a truce was called between Scotland and England. Nithsdale on a knightly quest for glory decided, about 1389, to join the Teutonic Knights, who were fighting the Ottomans and Lithuanians in eastern Europe. Nithsdale had previously quarrelled with Lord Clifford, a former adversary at Carlisle and whose forebear had claimed Douglasdale under Edward I of England's oppression. While both were abroad, it is alleged that Clifford challenged Nithsdale to single combat, and that Douglas even went to France to obtain special armour for the fight. Clifford, however, died on August 18, 1391,[1] but Nithsdale is said to have kept their 'tryst', and whilst walking upon on the bridge leading to the main gate at Danzig was "killed by the English".[2] The burgers of Danzig decided that "upon account of a signal service which the Douglas family did to this city in relieving it in its utmost extremities against the Poles, the Scotch were allowed to be free burghers of the town". Subsequently the stone facia of the Hohe Thor (High Gate) was adorned with the coat of arms of this nobleman and for centuries it was commonly referred to as the Douglas Port or Douglas Gate, described as such as late as 1734

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