- This article is about the mythical Scottish figure. For the Marshal of the Royal Air Force, see William Douglas, 1st Baron Douglas of Kirtleside. Marshal of the Royal Air Force William Sholto Douglas 1st Baron Douglas of Kirtleside, GCB, MC, DFC ( December 23, 1893
Sholto Douglas was the mythical Progenitor of the House of Douglas, a powerful and warlike family in Medieval Scotland. Clan Douglas, also referred to as the House of Douglas, is an ancient family from the Scottish Lowlands taking its name from Douglas South Lanarkshire, Scotland ( Gaelic: Alba) is a Country in northwest Europethat occupies the northern third of the island of Great Britain. A Mythical battle took place: "in 767, between King Solvathius rightful king of Scotland and a pretender Donald Bane. The victory was so nearly Donald's when a certain noble man, disdaining to see so bad a cause have good successe, struck in for the king and turned the fortunes of the day. When the king inquired about the knight who had done such valuable service, somebody exclaimed "Sholto du glasse!". . . "Behold the black gray man!". . " (Ane Historie of the House and Race of Douglas and Angus, David Hume of Godscroft, Edinburgh 1646).
There are no records in Scotland predating a William de Douglas, who witnessed a charter in 1174 and might be offspring of Freskin the Fleming, the progenitor of the House of Moray and of Sutherland. William of Douglas (dc1214 was a Medieval Scottish nobleman Enigmatic Origins The origins of William are uncertain the first of the name of Douglas Freskin was a minor nobleman active in the reign of King David I of Scotland. The so-called House of Moray is a historiographical and genealogical construct to illustrate the succession of rulers whose base was at the region of Moray and who ruled sometimes Clan Sutherland is a Highland Scottish clan whose traditional territory is located in the region of Sutherland in northern highlands of Scotland and was However, in Italy there is a family with the surname Douglas-Scotti, whose ancestor was supposedly a son of Sholto, and was in service with Charlemagne when he settled near Piacenza in the late eighth century. Charlemagne (ˈʃɑrlɨmeɪn Carolus Magnus or Karolus Magnus meaning Charles the Great) (747 – 28 January 814 was King of the Franks from 768 to his Piacenza ( Placentia in Latin and old-fashioned English, Piasëinsa in the local dialect of Emiliano-Romagnolo) is a
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- Godscroft, David Hume of. David Hume (1558 - 1629 was a Scottish historian and political theorist Ane Historie of the House and Race of Douglas and Angus. Edinburgh 1646
- Maxwell, Sir Herbert. The Rt Hon Sir Herbert Eustace Maxwell of Monreith 7th Baronet KT, FRS, FRGS, LLD ( 8 January 1845 &ndash A History of the House of Douglas Vol. I. Freemantle & co. , London, 1902
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