de Baiigé, où périrent le duc de Clarence et le marquis de Somerset, l'un frère, l'autre oncle du roi d'Angleterre. Charles VII, en récom- pense, le créa lieutenant général du royaume et duc de Touraine. Il fut tué en 1425, en combattant Bedford.
Emile Stocquart.
Notre Confrère, M. le baron Adh. de Linden, a bien voulu nous communiquer les extraits qui suivent :
Douglas, Duke of Douglas.
To this distinguished house, long the rival of royal ty, the indefati- gable Chalmers assigns a flemist origin, on the strong ground of chartu- lary évidence. Arnold *, who was abbot of Kelso, from 1 147 to 11 60, granted some lands on Duglaswater in Lanarkshire « Theobaldo flama- tico » to Theobald the Fleming, and his heirs.
As this grant of Arnold to Theobald is the first link in the chain of titledeeds to Duglasdale, this family, says Chalmers, must therefore relinquish their original domain, or acknowlodge their flemish descent.
1 . Theobald, the first of this spendid race, obtained, from Arnold, abbot of Kelso, to him and his heirs, « nostram ^ terram super Dunel- glas, de surso de Poluele, usque ad aquam de Duglas ».
He was father of
2. William, who, inheriting the estate assumed the name of Duglas during an âge when it was the practice of landholders to designate themselves from the names of their lands \ He witnessed charters between 1170 and 1190. Particularly a gran t of Josceline, bishop of Glasgow, to Kelso Abbaye and a grant to the Monks of Arbroath by Thomas, son of Tancard, a Fleming settled in Clydesdale. He married a sister of frisken de Kerdale in Moray and has six sons, and a doughter Margaret *, married to Hervey Keith, great marischal of Scotland.
' Hrit. Mus., Calcdonia. I, 579. 2 Ibid., Chartulary of Kelso. 87. •* lirit. Mus., Caledonia, I, 579.
- Ibid., Nisb. Her., II, app. 3.
From Douglas's Pcerage of Scotland.
vol. I, pp. 418, 419. Kdinburg,
folio 18 13.
