"The family of Douglas, say the French writers,
were on account of their high feats of arms, honoured, ennobled, and
raised to the dignity of Dukes of Touraine, and marshals of France, a
post which no coward can fill, and few amongst the valiant obtain.
However no report of this encomium may appear, it is far inferior to
what the services of the house of Douglas to the French nation deserved,
as will appear in the sequel.”
Motto: Tendre et Fidèle
Individuals from the
Douglas families of France, and those with French connections
- William Douglas of
Liddesdale visited King David at
Chateau Gaillard,
c1337
- William Douglas, 1st earl
of Douglas,(born c. 1327—died May 1384), the son of Sir
Archibald Douglas (d. 1333, Regent of Scotland, was educated in
France and returned to Scotland in 1348. His cousin,
Archibald The Grim may
have been there at the same time.
- The title of
Comte de Longueville was
awarded to Archibald Douglas, Earl of Wigtown
(d.1438), and his son William Douglas, 6th Earl of
Douglas (d.1440) in gratitude for the assistance to the
future Charles VII of France by the Scottish army rescue led by
Archibald Douglas, 4th Earl of Douglas, killed at the
Battle of Verneuil in 1424. Known by French chroniclers as Victon (after
Wigton) he also received the honorary title of
Seigneurie (Lord) of Dun-le-Roi (now
Dun-sur-Auron). A
Marshall of France
- Duke of Touraine
- Adam Douglas, governor of castle and town of Tours, 27 May
1424. He was a cousin of Archibald, 4th Earl of Douglas
-
Alexandre-Pierre de Mackensie-Douglas or Mackenzie-Douglas,
baron de Kildin (1713-1765), French chargé d'affaires in St
Petersburg
- Andrew Douglas -
A Scottish soldier in Flanders
- Antoine Douglas, chevalier, seigneur de
Richagnard en Bugey et de Ployart en Picardie,
Governor of Montreal
Chateau
- Archibald Douglas, 4th Earl of Douglas, Duke of Touraine,
Earl of Wigton, buried with his son, Sir James Douglas (below) in Saint Gatien's
Cathedral, Tours, following the Battle of Verneuil 1424.
- James Douglas, Earl of Abercorn, Born: Abt 1392 Of, Douglas,
Lanarkshire, Scotland Died: 17 Aug 1424 Battle Of
Verneuil, Maine-Et-Loire,
France Bur.: 24 Aug 1424 Tours Cathedral, Tours, Indre-Et-Loire, France
Married: Beatrice
- Charles, Comte de
Douglas, father of Francois-Prosper Douglas
- Charles, Comte de Douglas, syndic of the nobility of
Bugey
- Charles Douglas, Marc Douglas - Seigneur de
Saint-Jacques
- Charles Douglas, Marc Douglas - Seigneur de
Longueval
- Charles Du Glas, (son of marc d1626), chevalier,
seigneur d'Arrancy, Deceased between 1693 and 1704les Douglas, lord of Arrancy built
Ferme du Maipas
- Charles Douglas, Marc Douglas - Vicomte
d'Amifontaine
- Charles Douglas (died after 1731) married on August 2, 1704
in Arras, Jeanne Aldegonde Quarré (1663 - 1731)
- Charles Joseph Douglas, Lord of Mépillat,
Chiloup and Hautepierre acquired for 60.000 pounds (?florins)
13 Apr 1757 Presumably
him...
- Charles Joseph de Douglas is the brother of Francois Prosper
de Douglas
- Sir Charles ArchambaSir Charles Archambault Duglas, Count of Suze, captain
Roy (King's?) Infantry Regiment
- Charles Joseph
Douglas, Governor of Saint-Claude in 1751
- Captain Charles Guillaume Douglas and Captain d'Hortore
Douglas, Capitaine dans le regiment de Languedoc and Capitaine
dans le regiment de Drummond ou Royal Ecossais (though not
necessarily respectively) were
prisoners of the '45
at Penrith(2)
-
Francois-Prosper Douglas,
Chevalier de Douglas, (21 Feb. 1725 - 26 April 1781)
(2)
- Gabriel, Esquire, Lord of Saint-Jacques,
c1668
- Guillaume (William) Douglas married Marguerite de
Pratulo and had a son,
Jean (John) who was an 'Archer of the Scottish Guard' of King
Louis XI
- Guillaume Douglas (Guillaume Douglas (c1420), Jean Douglas (c1450), son of
Guillaume, Alain Douglas, son of Jean - Seigneur de
Prastulo/Pratulot
- Jean Du Glas, seigneur de Pratulo et de Châteauneuf,
married Marguerite de Keroulas and has a daughter Julie
Jacquette Du Glas †1655 who married le 3 mai 1612 (jeudi),
Spezet, Louis de Kerguz †1637.
- Louise du Vieuxchastel, lady of Draon, from the
Crann household, is the wife of Guillaume le Glas, Lord
of Pont-Pol in Châteauneuf-du-Faou, whose coat of arms
is azure with a castle of three towers argent, masoned sable.
- James Charles
Douglas-Whyte, Died 3 Apr 1885, Finistère, Britanny, France
- Jean Douglas (c1450), son of Guillaume, Alain Douglas, son
of Jean - Seigneur de Châteauneuf
- John Douglas, son of
Archibald Douglas (died 1333), died before 1342 in the
retinue of David II of Scotland in France, possibly at
Château Gaillard
- John Douglas, Esquire, Lord of Chateauneuf,
c1550
- John Douglas, seismologist in 2010
- Joseph Hyacinthe Duglas, Arrancy, admitted knight justice to the great priory of France, born Feb. 11, 1664, baptized May 26
audit year in the parish church of the diocese of Laon Arrancy
- Leonel, Esquire, Lord of
Ployart, c1632
- Louis Douglas, Lord of Ployart, c1567
- Lord Louis François Marie Hyacinthe Duglas, Count Duglas,
captain of the regiment of grenadiers Roy, Lord of Arrancy,
Ployart, St Jacques of Arrences, Longueval, Amifontaine,
Sibiville and other places and high and mighty lady Anne Marie
Angélique Rosalie Vassan his wife.
- Louis Archambaud Douglas
(1758-1842), eldest son of Francois-Prosper Douglas and Charlotte de La Corne.
- Marc Douglas - Seigneur de La Suze
- Marc Du Glas - chevalier, seigneur d'Arrancy,
Deceased before 23 February 1626
- Oliver Douglas, Esquire, Lord & Ployart Arancy of
Picardy (?Lord of Ployart) c1550
- Olivier Douglas †1558, son of Gilles, Philippe Douglas, son
of Olivier, Charles Douglas, Marc Douglas, son of Philippe -
Seigneur de Ployart
- Olivier Douglas †1558, Philippe Douglas, Jean Douglas,
Charles Douglas, François Marie Hyacinthe Douglas †1763, Marc
Douglas - Seigneur d'Arrancy
- Olivier Douglas †1558, Philippe Douglas, Charles Douglas,
Marc Douglas - Seigneur de Ployart
- Philippe, son of Olivier and Isabeau Wiganacourt(3), married married twice; 1st before
1568 to Francoise de FAY D'ATHIES ca 1540- / 1583 (Parents:
François d'ATHIES ca 1510- & Aliénor de BEAUVAIS ca 1515- ).
They had 6 children, and 2nd 15 May 1583 to Mary COIGNET † 1634
(Parents: François COIGNET † 1583 / & Catherine RAPPOUEL ) They
had two cildren. Philippe was Lord of Arrancy (on the
death of his nephew Louis son of Louis), Arrançot and Ployart -
Ordinary gentleman of the King's chamber, Captain of galleys of
the Marquis d'Elbeuf
- Pierre Archimbaud
de Douglas, Count of
Montreal
- Robert Jacques Marie Gabriel de Douglas,
Chevalier de la Légion
d'honneur, Croix de guerre
-
Valentine Douglas OSB was
appointed Bishop of Laon, France, in 1580, in which position he
served til his death on 5 Aug 1598. He built
Chateaux d'Arrancy,
with his brother Philippe.
-
Alexandre-Pierre
de Mackensie-Douglas or Mackenzie-Douglas, baron de Kildin
(1713-1765), also referred to as Alexandre Pierre Mackenzie,
baron de Kildin, chevalier Douglass, was a Jacobite in French
service.
- A de Douglas was commandant of 11e bataillon « Onzième Bataillon de Chasseurs Alpins, Onzième
Bataillon d'lapins, in 1916
-
John Carmichael of Douglasdale, the chaplain of the dead
Douglas, was created Bishop of Orléans following the Battle of
Verneuil (1424).
- There is a plaque in memory of two William Douglases in the
nave of Orléans Cathedral Sainte-Crois,
Sir William Douglas of Drumlanrig and William Douglas of Kinross, who had helped Joan
of Arc and were buried there.
- In 1450 English and Burgundians took and burned Saint-Saens
(Near Rouen). The Scottish family of Guillaume Douglas then
owned the village(1). Isabel Douglas,
Countess of Mar, born circa 1360, daughter of William Douglas,
1st Earl of Douglas, is said to have sold, on 28 July 1408, her
lands of St. Saens in Normandy, inherited from her father. On
leaving France, she placed a statuette or image of herself in
the choir of the church of the Priory of St. Saens as a
souvenir. The figure has since been lost.
- These is an apparent DNA link with the Cozean family of
Brittany/Bretagne
- William Le Hardi married Eleanor of Louvaine. However,
by then the family were in Little Easton, in Essex, England.
-
Douglas family in Arancy
- Michel Marescot was a French physician who served as a physician to King Henry IV of France. He was born in 1539 and died in 1605.
In the Italian section, we include details of the Marescotti family as
they record their descendancy from the Douglas family. The French Marescotti/Marescot
familyprobably splintered off politically from the Italian Marescotti's during the Guelph/Ghibelline, wars.
Notes:
1. Oliver Thomson writes: William Douglas liked
the sound of having a barony at St Saens in Normandy even if in
reality it was still in English hands.
2. Charles-Joseph Douglas, born in 1720, died
without posterity in 1788, and Joseph Douglas, born in 1721,
ambassador of France in Russia, died without posterity, attached
in their youth to the party of Stuarts, followed in 1745 Prince
Edward in Scotland and were taken prisoner at the Battle of
Culloden.
But see this>>>
Are these all different people? Or has there been some
conflation of stories for different people?
3. Isabeau Wiganacourt was Maid of Honour to the Dowager Duchess
of Guise, Antoinette de Bourbon-Vendôme (1493-1523)
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