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James Douglas, jure uxoris 4th Earl of Morton (c. 1516 – 2 June 1581) (aged 69) was the last of the four regents of Scotland during the minority of King James VI. He was in some ways the most successful of the four, since he won the civil war which had been dragging on with the supporters of the exiled Mary, Queen of Scots. However, he came to an unfortunate end—he was executed by means of ...
James Douglas, 4. Earl of Morton. James Douglas, 4. Earl of Morton (* 1525; † 2. Juni 1581 in Edinburgh) entstammte dem in Schottland einflussreichen und weitverzweigten Douglas-Clan. Er war in das tragische Schicksal der Königin Maria Stuart verwickelt, an deren Sturz er mitwirkte, und führte von 1571 bis 1578 für ihren unmündigen Sohn ...
James Douglas of Dalkeith, declared to be of unsound mind by Act of Parliament 1441 (d. betw. 8 Sep 1456 and 14 Mar 1457/8), mar. Elizabeth Giffard (d. after 8 Sep 1456), dau. of James Giffard of Sheriffhall, and had issue: 1c. James Douglas of Dalkeith, later1st Earl of Morton. 3b. Henry Douglas of Dalkeith and Borg (d. bef. 1456), mar.
James Douglas duly inherited and became Regent Morton, but both his and his brother Angus’s male lines were to fail. Notwithstanding all of this, the 3rd Earl of Morton’s second daughter, Beatrix, who had married Robert 6th Lord Maxwell, felt aggrieved at being overlooked and her son, John 8th Lord Maxwell tried to lay claim to the title when Regent Morton fell from power in 1581.
In the Middle Ages the Douglas family owned extensive estates in Fife (Aberdour), Midlothian (Dalkeith), Berwickshire, Peeblesshire and elsewhere, and were created Earls of Morton in 1458. The 3rd Earl of Morton (d. 1550) was succeeded in his estates and title by his son-in-law James Douglas of Pittendriech, Regent of Scotland 1572-78, but in 1558 they reverted to the Douglases of Loch Leven ...
James Douglas, 4th Earl of Morton (c. 1525 - June 2, 1581), was the last, and arguably the most successful, of the four regents of Scotland during the minority of King James VI. However he met an unfortunate end: during his time as regent he introduced the maiden, a primitive guillotine, to Scotland, and he was eventually executed by it himself.
