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James Douglas, 5th Earl of Buchan
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 James Douglas, 5th Earl of Buchan was a Scottish courtier and landowner.

He was the eldest son of Christina Stewart, 4th Countess of Buchan and Robert Douglas, son of Sir Robert Douglas of Lochleven and Margaret Erskine.

The houses of the Earls of Buchan were Auchterhouse and Banff Castle.

He married Margaret Ogilvy, daughter of Walter Lord Ogilvy of Deskford.

Their daughter Mary Douglas, Countess of Buchan, was born in October 1601. She married James Erskine (d. 1640), a son of the Earl of Mar and Marie Stewart, Countess of Mar.

The wards and living Earldom of Buchan and the castle of Auchterhouse passed to Prince Charles by the king's gift, however Walter Ogilvy of Findlater refused to deliver the property, and detained the late earl's eldest sister Christene Douglas.

 James Douglas, 5th Earl of Buchan died in 1601.


Arms of the House Douglas of Buchan.
Arms: Quarterly: 1 and 4, argent three piles issuing from the chief Gules, and in chief two mullets of the field (for Erskyn lord of Brechane of auld differenced for Erskine); 2: Azure three garbs Or (Cumming), 3: Or, a fess chequy argent and azure (Stuart).

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