Lasse & Anita - Person Sheet
Lasse & Anita - Person Sheet
NameLady Margaret Douglas , 2C16R
Birthbef 1435
Death1475
Alias/AKAFair Maid of Galloway
MotherLady Eupheme Graham (<1413-1468)
Spouses
Birthca 1440
Death15 Sep 1512
Occupation1st Earl of Atholl, Sir John Stewart of Balveny
MotherLady Joan Beaufort (-1445)
ChildrenJean
Notes for Lady Margaret Douglas
Margaret Douglas, Countess of Douglas (died c. 1474), known as the Fair Maid of Galloway, was a Scottish noblewoman, and a member of the Black Douglas family towards the end of the family's position as a major power in Scotland.

She was the daughter of
Archibald Douglas, 5th Earl of Douglas, and Eupheme Graham, daughter of Patrick Graham, Earl of Strathearn and Euphemia Stewart, Countess of Strathearn.

She acquired
Galloway when her two brothers (one of whom was William Douglas, 6th Earl of Douglas) were murdered at the Black Dinner in Edinburgh Castle.

She married her cousin
William Douglas, 8th Earl of Douglas. When he was assassinated she obtained permission to marry his brother, James Douglas, 9th Earl of Douglas, but it is not entirely clear that the marriage ever happened; if it did it must have ended in divorce, since they both married again. She then married John Stewart, 1st Earl of Atholl.

She had no children by the Earls of Douglas, but two daughters by the Earl of Atholl. These were Janet, wife of
Alexander Gordon, 3rd Earl of Huntly; and Elizabeth, wife of Andrew Gray, 2nd Lord Gray. Both had issue.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Douglas,_Fair_Maid_of_Galloway
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