History of the house and race of Douglas and Angus

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Stewart, and after him of Walter, then of Robert, the first
King of the Stewarts, and so of Robert III. which in all like-
lihood he hath given with his daughter, as her dowry, to this
Archibald. 6. Also John Earl of Buchan, the King's brother's
son, married a daughter of this Archibald, whom he hath had
apparently by some other wife. 7. Then Alexander, son to
the Earl of Buchan, married Isabel Douglas, countess of Mar,
daughter to William the first Earl of Douglas. 8. William
the first Earl married Margaret Stewart, daughter to Thomas
Earl of Angus, who was uncle to King Robert II. and first
King of the Stewarts. 9. George Douglas, son to the same
William, who was the first Earl of Angus of the name of
Douglas, married Mary Stewart, daughter to King Robert
III. and sister to King James I. 10. James Douglas, Lord of
Dalkeith, married a daughter of King James II. 11. Archi-
bald, brother to William the eighth Earl of Douglas, married
the inheretrix of Murray, who was niece to King Robert II.
and so became Earl of Murray. 12. Archibald Earl of An-
gus, the second of that name, married Margaret Queen of
Scotland, relict of King James IV. and eldest daughter to
King Henry VII. sister to King Henry VIII. of England, and
mother to King James V. of Scotland-, by her he had Lady
Margaret Douglas. 1 3. Lady Margaret Douglas, his daughter,
was married to Matthew Stewart Earl of Lennox, who was
also of the blood royal. 14. Henry Stewart Lord Darnlv*
son to Lennox and Lady Margaret, married Mary Queen of
Scotland, only daughter and heir to King James V. She bare
to him James VI. of Scotland, and now happily the first King
of Great Britain, France, and Ireland. And so much for no-
bility in blood and alliance.
5. The fifth and last kind of nobility is that of fame and
renown. Those that take upon them to derive and deduce
the pedigree and etymology of words, do think that this sig-
nification is most proper, as being chiefly implied in the word
nobilis, quasi notabilis; so that those are said to be most no-
ble, who are least obscure, who are most eminent and conspi-
cuous in the eyes of the world, and most praised and blazed