Individual Details
Archibald "1st Lord of Cavers, Black Archibald" Douglas
(Abt 1378 - Abt 1435)
[[Category:Scotland, Arbroath Profiles Needs Review]]
[[Category:Declaration of Arbroath, Stewart Family Worklist]]
[[Category:Douglas of Cavers]]
[[Category:Lord of Cavers]]
[[Category: Descendants of Laird William Douglas, Name Study]]
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==Biography==
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Archibald Douglas was a natural son of James Douglas. Archibald was the 1st Lord of Cavers and 1st Sheriff of Teviotdale. His nickname was "Black Archibald".
*Archibald Douglas, 1st of Cavers, b. after 1373
*Archibald Douglas, 1st of Cavers was born after 1373. He was the son of James Douglas, 2nd Earl of Douglas. He married Margaret (?).
Child of Archibald Douglas, 1st of Cavers and Margaret (?)
*William Douglas, 2nd of Cavers+2 d. 8 Jan 1464
*1st of Cavers
*Son of James, 2nd Earl of Douglas. When the 2nd Earl died at the Battle of Otterburn, his estates were divided between his illegitimates sons, William, who got Drumlanrig, and Archibald, who received Cavers.
*Archibald Douglas carried his father's standard at the battle of Otterburn, and defended it with success against the repeated attacks of the English.
*He had from his father the lands and barony of Cavers, with the heritable sheriffship of Teviotdale. It seems that the superiority remained at first with the Countess of Mar, and that Archibald had from her a new charter of the lands and sheriffship without procuring the royal sanction, by which neglect they recognosced to the King, and were conferred by him on Sir David Fleming of Biggar in 1405. But as Fleming did not long survive that date, it does not appear whether he ever took possession.
*Sir Archibald afterwards obtained from King James I. a charter of confirmation, dated at Croydon, 30th November 1412, proceeding upon a charter granted to him by his aunt, Lady Isabel, Countess of Mar, in her widowhood, in which the superiority is resigned.
*Sir Archibald sided with the Red Douglases of Angus against the Black Douglases.
=== Sources ===
*http://www.thepeerage.com/p10951.htm#i109502
*http://www.douglashistory.co.uk/history/archibalddouglasofcavers.htm
*Johnston, George Harvey. "The Earls of Douglas." ''The Heraldry of the Douglases: With Notes on All the Males of the Family, Descriptions of the Arms, Plates and Pedigrees.'' Edinburgh: W. & A.K. Johnston, Limited, 1907. 15,31. Print.
[[Category:Declaration of Arbroath, Stewart Family Worklist]]
[[Category:Douglas of Cavers]]
[[Category:Lord of Cavers]]
[[Category: Descendants of Laird William Douglas, Name Study]]
}
==Biography==
}
Archibald Douglas was a natural son of James Douglas. Archibald was the 1st Lord of Cavers and 1st Sheriff of Teviotdale. His nickname was "Black Archibald".
*Archibald Douglas, 1st of Cavers, b. after 1373
*Archibald Douglas, 1st of Cavers was born after 1373. He was the son of James Douglas, 2nd Earl of Douglas. He married Margaret (?).
Child of Archibald Douglas, 1st of Cavers and Margaret (?)
*William Douglas, 2nd of Cavers+2 d. 8 Jan 1464
*1st of Cavers
*Son of James, 2nd Earl of Douglas. When the 2nd Earl died at the Battle of Otterburn, his estates were divided between his illegitimates sons, William, who got Drumlanrig, and Archibald, who received Cavers.
*Archibald Douglas carried his father's standard at the battle of Otterburn, and defended it with success against the repeated attacks of the English.
*He had from his father the lands and barony of Cavers, with the heritable sheriffship of Teviotdale. It seems that the superiority remained at first with the Countess of Mar, and that Archibald had from her a new charter of the lands and sheriffship without procuring the royal sanction, by which neglect they recognosced to the King, and were conferred by him on Sir David Fleming of Biggar in 1405. But as Fleming did not long survive that date, it does not appear whether he ever took possession.
*Sir Archibald afterwards obtained from King James I. a charter of confirmation, dated at Croydon, 30th November 1412, proceeding upon a charter granted to him by his aunt, Lady Isabel, Countess of Mar, in her widowhood, in which the superiority is resigned.
*Sir Archibald sided with the Red Douglases of Angus against the Black Douglases.
=== Sources ===
*http://www.thepeerage.com/p10951.htm#i109502
*http://www.douglashistory.co.uk/history/archibalddouglasofcavers.htm
*Johnston, George Harvey. "The Earls of Douglas." ''The Heraldry of the Douglases: With Notes on All the Males of the Family, Descriptions of the Arms, Plates and Pedigrees.'' Edinburgh: W. & A.K. Johnston, Limited, 1907. 15,31. Print.
Events
| Birth | Abt 1378 | Cavers House, Hawick, Roxburghshire, Scotland | |||
| Death | Abt 1435 | ||||
| Reference No | 1017892 | ||||
| Reference No | 1039213 | ||||
| Reference No | 60 |
Families
| Father | Sir James "2nd Earl of Douglas and Mar" Douglas (1355 - 1388) |
| Sibling | Sir William "1st Lord of Drumlanrig" Douglas (1373 - 1427) |
| Sibling | Eleanor Douglas (1367 - 1425) |