"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
Titles granted to the members of the
douglas family in France include:
- Comte de Longueville
- Seigneurie of Dun-le-Roi (now Dun-sur-Auron)
- eigneurS de
Richagnard en Bugey et de Ployart en
Picardie
- Duke of Touraine
- Comte de Douglas (Bugey)
- Seigneur de
Saint-Jacques
- Seigneur de
Longueval
- Chevalier, seigneur d'Arrancy
- Vicomte
d'Amifontaine
- Lord of Mépillat,
Chiloup and Hautepierre
- Count of Suze
- Governor of Saint-Claude
- Chevalier de Douglas
- Lord of Saint-Jacques
- Seigneur de
Prastulo/Pratulot
- Seigneur de Pratulo et de Châteauneuf
- Lord
of Pont-Pol in Châteauneuf-du-Faououglas, son
of Jean -
- Seigneur de Châteauneuf
- Lord of Chateauneuf,
c1550
- Lord of Ployart, c1567
- Lord of Arrancy,
Ployart, St Jacques of Arrences, Longueval, Amifontaine, Sibiville
and other places
- Seigneur de La Suze
- Chevalier, seigneur d'Arrancy
- Lord & Ployart Arancy of
Picardy
- Seigneur de Ployart
- Count of
Montreal
-
Bishop of Laon,
-
Bishop of Orléans
-
Baron of Castlehill was held by a Comte de Douglas born 1717 at
Castle Hill in Scotland.
Note:
• The above list contains duplicates and has not (yet)
been standardised in translation (perhaps they should be in
French?). If this is something that you would like to help
with, then that assistance would be very welcome.
This page forms part of the France section
of the Douglas Archives.
See also:
•
People in France
•
Places in France
•
Douglas heraldry in France
•
Extracts from Illustrations of the European nobility
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