Archibald Douglas, 1st Earl of Forfar
Archibald Douglas, 1st Earl of Forfar, 2nd Earl of Ormonde (3 May 1653 – 11 November 1712) was a Scottish peer.
He was the second son and youngest child of Archibald Douglas, Earl of Angus and 1st Earl of Ormond, by his second wife, Jean Wemyss, the daughter of David Wemyss, 2nd Earl of Wemyss and the Hon.
Anna Balfour of Burleigh.
He was also the younger half-brother of James Douglas, 2nd Marquess of Douglas and the younger brother of Lady Margaret Douglas, wife of Alexander Seton, 1st Viscount of Kingston.
He was made the Earl of Forfar and Lord of Wandell and Hartside on 2 October 1661 at the age of eight.
He married Robina Lockhart (b.1662-d.1741), daughter of Sir William Lockhart of Lee and Robina Sewster, on 19 August 1679 at Lincoln's Inn Chapel, London, England.
His only son, Archibald Douglas, 2nd Earl of Forfar, was born in 1692.
He was a Privy Counsellor to both King William III and Queen Anne from 1689 until his death in 1712.
He served as Commissioner of the Privy Seal from 1689–1690 and Commissioner for the Treasury from 1704-1705.
In 1700, he moved the family residence from Bothwell Castle to his new mansion, Bothwell House, which was dubbed "New Bothwell Castle".
He voted for the Act of Union in 1707, having allegedly received £100 in payment from the English.
He died on 11 November 1712 and was buried in Bothwell Church, Scotland.
George Douglas, 1st Earl of Angus
George Douglas, 1st Earl of Angus( 1380–1403) was a Scottish nobleman and peer.
Margaret Stewart, Countess of Angus
Margaret Stewart, Countess of Angus and Mar( died 1417) was Countess of Angus and Lady of Abernethy in her own right.
Her father was Thomas Stewart, 2nd Earl of Angus.
She was the widow of Thomas, Earl of Mar.
By an illicit affair with William Douglas, 1st Earl of Douglas, husband of the Earl of Mar's sister, she became the mother of George Douglas, 1st Earl of Angus( c. 1380- 1403), and secured a charter of her estates for her son, to whom in 1389 the title was granted by King Robert II.
James Douglas, 7th Earl of Douglas
James Douglas, 7th Earl of Douglas, 1st Earl of Avondale( 1371 – 24 March 1443), latterly known as James the Gross, and prior to his ennoblement as James of Balvenie, was a late mediaeval Scottish magnate.
He was the second son of Archibald Douglas, 3rd Earl of Douglas and Joan Moray of Bothwell and Drumsargard( now Cambuslang), d. after 1408.
Thomas Stewart, Master of Mar
Thomas married Elizabeth, the widow of John Stewart, 2nd Earl of Buchan, who was daughter of Archibald Douglas, 4th Earl of Douglas and Margaret Stewart, Lady of Galloway.
They were required to obtain a marriage license, which was granted on 1 May 1427, due to their degrees of consanguinity and affinity.
He had a son.
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She was the mother of Prince Morinaga.
James Douglas, 2nd Marquess of Douglas
James Douglas, 2nd Marquess of Douglas (c.1646 – 25 February 1700) was the son of Archibald Douglas, Earl of Angus and 1st Earl of Ormonde, and Lady Anne Stuart.
James, second marquis of Douglas, born in 1646, succeeded his grandfather in 1660, and was a privy councillor to Kings Charles II and James VII.
He died 25 February 1700, in the 54th year of his age.
His eldest son, James, earl of Angus, born in 1671, in 1689 raised for the service of the nation, in one day, a regiment of eighteen hundred men, now called the 26th foot or Cameronians, of which he was appointed colonel, 19 April of that year.
After much active service he fell at the battle of Steinkirk 3d August 1692, in the 21st year of his age, unmarried.
His half brother, William, also bore the title of earl of Angus, but died an infant in 1694.
Archibald, the third son of the second marquis, succeeded as third marquis.
His first marriage was in 1670 to the Lady Barbara Erskine, daughter of John Erskine, 21st Earl of Mar and Jean Mackenzie.
He later married Mary Kerr, daughter of Robert Kerr, 1st Marquess of Lothian and Lady Jean Campbell.
The story of the end of the marriage between James Douglas and Barbara Erskine is immortalized in the popular ballad
"Waly Waly", which is known by many alternative titles (e.g. "Jamie DouglasWhen Cockleshells Turn Silver BellsWater Is Wide") with many alternative lyrics and melodies.
If the lyrics are to be believed, in 1681 a rumor apparently was put to Douglas by Lowrie of Blackwood that Erskine had been sleeping with another man, and Douglas promptly dropped her.
Her father took her home and she never remarried.
Archibald Douglas, 2nd Earl of Forfar
Archibald Douglas, 2nd Earl of Forfar, 3rd Earl of Ormond( 25 May 1692 – 8 December 1715) was a Scottish peer.
He was the only son of Archibald Douglas, 1st Earl of Forfar, and Robina Lockhart, the daughter of Sir William Lockhart of Lee and Robina Sewster.
He inherited the titles Earl of Forfar and Earl of Ormond at the age of 20 on the 11 December 1712 upon the death of his father.
He was Colonel of the 3rd Regiment of Foot(" The Buffs") from 1713 until his death in 1715 and served as the Envoy to Prussia in 1714.
He served on the Hanoverian side during the Jacobite rising of 1715 and led the 3rd Regiment at the Battle of Sheriffmuir( 3 December 1715), where he was wounded in 17 places.
He later died of his wounds in Stirling, Stirlingshire, Scotland, on 8 December 1715, at the age of 23.
He was later buried in Bothwell Church on the family estates in Bothwell.
He died unmarried with neither issue nor heirs.
Walter Aston, 3rd Lord Aston of Forfar
Walter Aston, 3rd Lord Aston of Forfar( 1633 – 20 November 1714) was the eldest son of Walter Aston, 2nd Lord Aston of Forfar, and his wife Lady Mary Weston, daughter of Richard Weston, 1st Earl of Portland.
He is best remembered today as a fortunate survivor of the Popish Plot.
He succeeded his father as Lord Aston of Forfar in the peerage of Scotland in 1678; he resided mainly at Tixall in Staffordshire.
William Douglas, 1st Earl of Douglas
William Douglas, 1st Earl of Douglas( c.1323 – 1 May 1384) was a Scottish nobleman, peer, and magnate.

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