James DOUGLAS (of Morton 1st Earl of Morton)

JAN 1426 - 20 OCT 1498

• TITLE: of Morton 1st Earl of Morton
  
• BIRTH: JAN 1426, Castle Morton, Morton, Dumfries-shire, Scotland
• DEATH: 20 OCT 1498, Midlothian, Scotland
• BURIAL: 1498, Dalkeith, Midlothian, Scotland
• EVENT: 4th Lord of Dalkeith
  Title of Nobility : 1426
• EVENT: created the 1st Earl of Morton upon his marriage to Joan Stewart, the daughter of James I, King of Scots
  Title of Nobility : 1458
• EVENT: He recovered the lordship of Dalkeith, increasing the his already vast estates.
  Title of Nobility : 1473/1474
• EVENT: 4th Lord of Dalkeith and 1st Earl of Morton
  Title of Nobility :
• EVENT: James Douglas, the fourth Lord of Dalkeith of the name, succeeded his father at some unascertained date between 8 September 1456, when his father resigned all his estates in his favour, and 14 March 1457-58, when he was raised to the Peerage as Earl of
  note :

1. +Janet DOUGLAS
2.  Margaret DOUGLAS
3.  Charlotte DOUGLAS
4.  Charlotte Elizabeth DOUGLAS
5.  John DOUGLAS
6.  William 2nd Earl of Avondale and 8th Earl of DOUGLAS
7.  Hugh Earl of Ormonde DOUGLAS
8.  Archibald Earl of Moray TWIN
9.  Sir James MORTON
10.  Janet DOUGLAS
11.  Elizabeth DOUGLAS
12.  John DOUGLAS
13.  Sybilla DOUGLAS
14. +Isabel Elizabeth DOUGLAS
15. +John DOUGLAS
16. +Janet DOUGLAS
17.  James DOUGLAS
18. +Margaret DOUGLAS

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|                     |_Elizabeth STEWART, PRINCESS OF SCOTLAND, BARONESS DALKEITH, COUNTESS OF MORTON _|
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|--James DOUGLAS 
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