Sir William Douglas of Glenbervie, Knt. (c. 1473 – 9 September 1513) was a Scottish

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 nobleman, who fell at Flodden.

He was the second son of Archibald Douglas, 5th Earl of Angus

Archibald Douglas, 5th Earl of Angus

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 and his wife Elizabeth Boyd, daughter of Robert Boyd, 1st Lord Boyd

Robert Boyd, 1st Lord Boyd

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. He obtained the lands of Glenbervie

Glenbervie

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 by his marriage and was thereafter styled Douglas of Glenbervie.

In 1493 and 1509 Douglas was in possession of charters of the lands of Grenane, in Ayrshire

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. The lands of Braidwood

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, in Lanarkshire

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, were confirmed to him in 1510.

William Douglas was knighted before 1511.

Elizabeth Douglas survived her husband and entered the convent of St. Catherine of Siena, on the Burgh Muir

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 of Edinburgh

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. This convent was to give its name to the Sciennes

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 area of the city.

Marriage

Douglas was pledged in marriage, by contract, in 1492, to Elizabeth, daughter and co-heir of the later James Auchinleck of that Ilk, by which contract he received a grant of the wardship of Auchinleck's estates.

By Elizabeth Auchinleck, Glenbervie had one son:

• Sir Archibald Douglas of Glenbervie
  Archibald Douglas of Glenbervie
  Sir Archibald Douglas of Glenbervie was a Scottish nobleman.He was the only son of Sir William Douglas of Glenbervie and Elizabeth Auchinleck. Douglas was born at Glenbervie at some point before his father's death at the Battle of Flodden.He married first, Agnes Keith, daughter of William Keith,...