Imagina of Looz

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Also called Imaine.

Family/Spouse: Godfrey III. Godfrey (son of Godfrey II and Luitgarde of Sulzbach) was born about 1141; died on 10 Aug 1190; was buried in St. Peter's Church, Leuven, Belgium. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: Abt 26 Apr 1226

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Custodian of the honor and castle of Eye, Suffolk. CP notes that he passed most of his life in England, and that toward the end of John's reign Godfrey was in arms against him but returned to allegiance in 1217.

Godfrey married Alice de Hastings about 1199. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Custodian of the honor of Eye.

Family/Spouse: Muriel. Muriel died after 1274. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Steward of Eye.

Matthew married Helisant before 1 Jun 1268. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: Aft Jun 1305

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Also called Eleanor de Ferrers. After the death of her second husband William Douglas, she married William Bagot of Staffordshire, son of another William Bagot and his wife Isabel. This union had no issue.

Royal Ancestry (citation details below; volume 3, page 147) shows her as a daughter of Matthew de Lovaine of Little Easton and his wife Muriel. Based on chronology she seems much more likely to have been a daughter of this Matthew's son Matthew de Lovaine and his wife Helisant, as shown by Ravilious (citation details below).

Family/Spouse: William de Ferrers. William (son of William de Ferrers and Margaret de Quincy) was born about 1240 in of Groby, Leicestershire, England; died before 20 Dec 1287. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Eleanor married William Douglas after 18 Feb 1290. William (son of William of Douglas and Constance) was born after 24 Apr 1235; died before 24 Jan 1299 in Tower of London, London, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Fought for Edward II at Boroughbridge.

Family/Spouse: Joan. Joan died in 1318. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: Abt 1297

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Regent of Scotland.

From the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography:

By the time Archibald reached adulthood, his half-brother, Sir James Douglas, had emerged as a key adherent of Robert I and Archibald benefited from the connection. During the 1320s he received estates at Morebattle in Roxburghshire and Kirkandrews in Dumfriesshire, and was granted Crimond and Rattray in Aberdeenshire; in 1327 he participated in the invasion of England.

Archibald Douglas's importance grew in the aftermath of the death of Sir James Douglas in 1330, when he became tutor to the latter's son. He himself married Beatrice (d. after 1337), daughter of Alexander Lindsay of Crawford, and their infant daughter Eleanor married Alexander Bruce, earl of Carrick, extending Archibald's connections. The losses among the Bruce party at Dupplin Moor on 11 August 1332 increased Archibald's significance and he engineered Edward Balliol's defeat at Annan at the end of the year. This military role and the Douglas reputation made him a natural choice for guardian of Scotland after the capture of Sir Andrew Murray in April 1333. He used his authority to personal advantage, illegally occupying Liddesdale and other southern lands. When Edward III laid siege to Berwick in May, Archibald raised an army and devastated northern England. This tactic failed to force Edward's withdrawal and Douglas marched to relieve Berwick. On 19 July at Halidon Hill he was defeated and killed in the attempt. His sons, John and William Douglas, fled into exile, and Archibald was remembered as the Tyneman or loser for this defeat, but his career shows he recognized the link between war and lordship which would allow William to become first earl of Douglas.

Family/Spouse: Beatrice Lindsay. Beatrice (daughter of Alexander de Lindsay) was born about 1286; died before 6 Dec 1352. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Margaret de Weston. Margaret (daughter of Thomas de Weston) died on 25 Jul 1349. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Earl of Douglas and Mar.

1st Earl of Douglas.

"Sir William Douglas, of Douglas, 2nd but only surviving son of Sir Archibald Douglas, Regent of Scotland (Apr. to July 1333), by Beatrice, daughter of Sir Alexander Lindsay, of Crawford, having by the resignation of his uncle, Hugh Douglas, 26 May 1342 (confirmed by the King), obtained the vast estates of the Douglas family (formerly held by the well-known Sir James Douglas, "the Good", slain in Spain, 25 Aug. 1330, elder brother of Hugh and Archibald abovenamed), attained full age about 1348, distinguished himself (1346-56) against the English in Scotland; slew his kinsman, Wilham Douglas, "the Knight of Liddesdale," in Aug. 1353, and was wounded 19 Sep. 1356, at the Battle of Poitiers. He was present at the Parliament held in Edinburgh, 20 Sep. 1357, and was one of the eight nobles of whom three were to place themselves in the hands of the English on the release of David II. He was, shortly afterwards, cr., 26 Jan. 1357/8, EARL OF DOUGLAS [S.]. He attended the Coronation of Robert II at Scone, 26 Mar. 1371; was Warden of the Marches, obtaining several successes against the English, and bringing Teviotdale into perfect subjection. He married, probably shortly before 13 Nov. 1357 (when she is mentioned in a charter of David II), Margaret, only daughter of Donald, Earl of Mar [S.], by Isabel Stewart, which Margaret, by the death of her brother Earl Thomas, between 22 Oct. 1373 and 21 June I374, became suo jure Countess of Mar [S.]. The Earl, her husband (as early as 21 June 1374), assumed in her right that Earldom in addition to his own. He died in May 1384, after a short illness, at Douglas, and was buried at Melrose." [Complete Peerage, citation details below]

Family/Spouse: (Unknown mistress of William de Douglas). [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Margaret Stewart. Margaret (daughter of Thomas Stewart and Margaret Sinclair) was born about 1354; died before 23 Mar 1418. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

William married Margaret Mar before 13 Nov 1357. Margaret (daughter of Donald, Regent of Scotland and Isabel Stewart) died before 22 Nov 1393. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Eleanor married William de Bourchier before Jun 1359. William (son of Robert Bourchier and Margaret Prayers) died in 1375. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: William Dacre. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 1376
• Alternate birth: Bef 1379
• Alternate death: Aft 14 Sep 1402

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1st Earl of Angus.

"He was taken captive at the battle of Homildon Hill on 14 September 1402, and as ransom was refused by King Henry IV, he remained a prisoner in England, and died of the plague." [The Scots Peerage, citation details below]

George married Mary Stewart after 24 May 1397. Mary (daughter of Robert III, King of Scots and Annabella Drummond) was born about 1382; died after 20 Mar 1458; was buried in Strathblane, Stirlingshire, Scotland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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2nd Earl of Douglas. Earl of Mar. Killed at the Battle of Otterburn.

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Constable of the Tower of London. In the year following Agincourt, Henry V created him Count of Eu, one of several countships Henry created in Normandy to cement his power in France.

Family/Spouse: Anne of Gloucester. Anne (daughter of Thomas of Woodstock and Eleanor de Bohun) was born before 8 May 1383; was christened in Pleshey, Essex, England; died on 16 Oct 1438; was buried in Llanthony Priory, outside Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]