George Douglas , Master of Angus George Douglas , Master of Angus ( 1469 – 9 September 1513 ) was a Scottish Nobleman . The son of Archibald Douglas , 5th Earl of Angus and Elizabeth Boyd , daughter of Robert Boyd , 1st Lord Boyd , he was born at Tantallon Castle and died at the Battle of Flodden . Overview . In 1489 the 5th Earl of Angus , Douglas ' s father resigned his lordships of Tantallon , Douglasdale , Liddesdale , Ewesdale , Eskdale , Selkirk , and Jedburgh Forest to the crown . James III then granted a new charter in favour of the Master . During the stand off between James III and the party backing his son James , then Duke of Rothesay , the Master attended the last parliament of the king before his death the Battle of Sauchieburn . It is not recorded to which faction the younger Angus adhered to . He attended parliament again under the newly crowned James IV in 1490 . The Master did not take an active part in Public affairs until 1499 when he took formal control over his lordships of Eskdale and Ewesdale . These lordships had become renowned for lawlessness and banditry , and the Master was appointed by the King as warden of Eskdale . In his capacity of Warden he met with his English counterpart Lord Dacre at Canonbie to hear grievances and fix punishments . The Younger Angus was not a particularly effective at restoring law and order . His undue leniency to his own tenantry caused the King to deprive him of office in 1506 , granting it instead to Alexander Home , 3rd Lord Home . George did however , gain the Barony of Crawford - Lindsay in 1510 , and his father made over his estates of Kirriemuir , Abernethy , and Horsehopecleugh in the same year . Death at Flodden Field . In late August 1513 the Master of Angus rode out with his father the Earl , and his younger brother Sir William Douglas of Glenbervie at the head of a large Douglas contingent and their adherents . On reaching the mustering point at the Ellemford , north of Duns , they joined with the largest and most modern army that Scotland had ever fielded . The army proceeded under King James into England where it eventually met with the army of the Earl of Surrey at Flodden Edge . A petulant Earl of Angus having had his advice snubbed by King James left the field and returned to Scotland , leaving the Master and his brother in charge of the Douglas contingent . Nothing more is recorded of the Master of Angus except an anecdote recorded by David Hume of Godscroft recording the last moments of King James . When Sir Edward Stanley had broken the Scottish left under the Earl of Lennox and Earl of Argyll . King James in the centre dismounted and prepared to make his stand amongst his spearmen . On noticing the Master of Angus still on horseback , he cried to him , " asking if it had been in the manner of his race to remain mounted while their sovereign fought on foot " . To which the Master replied asking whether " it was the fashion of the King of Scots to wear his mail and armorial bearings while fighting on foot " . The master hit a raw nerve in James chivalric mind and he replied " I dare fight upon my feet as well as you or any subject I have , and that without coat - armour or royal cognisance . " The English Billmen now closed on the Scottish centre and King James was found within a spear length of Surrey . Whether Godscroft ' s anecdote is true or not , that the Master of Angus taunts drove him to his death , the Master was equal to the King in reckless gallantry . The Master ' s corpse was found amongst the twelve Scottish Earls and seventeen Lords which lost their lives . According to Godscroft over 200 men of the name of Douglas died also . Marriage . In 1485 the Master of Angus was contracted in marriage to Margaret , daughter of Laurence Oliphant , 1st Lord Oliphant . It appears that this contract was not fulfilled as George was wed in 1488 to Elizabeth Drummond , daughter of John Drummond , 1st Lord Drummond . The marriage ran afoul of the strictures of a small feudal society such as Scotland : it was found out some years after the marriage that it was within the prohibited degrees of consanguinity . The Master of Angus applied for and successfully obtained Papal dispensation in 1495 . Issue . By Elizabeth Drummond , George Master of Angus had three sons and four daughters :