![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Barbour dates this incident to Palm Sunday 1307, which fell on 19 March. He also showed himself to be utterly ruthless, particularly in his relentless attacks on the English garrison in his own Douglas Castle, the most famous of which quickly passed into popular history. While Bruce was campaigning in the north against his domestic enemies, Douglas used the cover of Selkirk Forest to mount highly effective mobile attacks against the enemy. He soon created a formidable reputation for himself as a soldier and a tactician. The Douglas Larder Īll that remains of the house that stood on the site of Douglas Castle is this seventeenth-century tower which was spared demolition in 1938.ĭouglas's actions for most of 1307 and early 1308, although confined for the most part to his native Douglasdale, were essential to keeping the enemy in the South and freeing Bruce to campaign in the north. Lamberton presented him at the occupying English court to petition for the return of his land shortly after the capture of Stirling Castle in 1304, but when Edward I of England heard whose son he was he grew angry and Douglas was forced to depart. His lands had been seized and awarded to Robert Clifford. There he met William Lamberton, Bishop of St. ![]() His father remarried in late 1288 so Douglas' birth had to be prior to that however, the destruction of records in Scotland makes an exact date or even year impossible to pinpoint.ĭouglas was sent to France for safety in the early days of the Wars of Independence, and was educated in Paris. His mother was Elizabeth Stewart, the daughter of Alexander Stewart, 4th High Steward of Scotland, who died circa 1287 or early 1288. He was the eldest son of Sir William Douglas, known as "le Hardi" or "the bold", who had been the first noble supporter of William Wallace (the elder Douglas died circa 1298, a prisoner in the Tower of London). ![]()
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