Eleanor Douglas, Countess of Carrick

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ELEANOR Douglas . m firstly ALEXANDER Bruce, illegitimate son of EDWARD Bruce Earl of Carrick King of Ireland & his mistress --- (-killed in battle Halidon Hill 19 Jul 1333). Created Earl of Carrick in [1330] or soon after. m secondly JAMES Sandilands of Calder (-before 1358). m thirdly (before 1361) WILLIAM Towers of Dalry. m fourthly (before 1368) Sir DUNCAN Wallace of Sundrum. m fifthly (1376) as his second wife, Sir PATRICK Hepburn of Hales. 1402.

Continued to use her first husband's surname and the title "Countess of Carrick" through four more marriages. (After 1368, when the title of "Earl of Carrick" was formally granted to John Stewart (afterwards Robert III) and his wife Annabella, Eleanor was for all intents and purposes what we would now call a "Dowager Countess", but that form of address had not yet been devised.)

Family

https://www.stirnet.com/genie/data/british/dd/douglas01.php#eleanor1

• c. Sir Archibald Douglas of Liddesdale, Cavers, etc. (Regent of Scotland, b c1297, d Halidon Hill 19.07.1333) m. Beatrix de Lindsay (d before 1352, dau of Sir Alexander de Lindsay of Crawford)
  • (3) Eleanor Douglas -- Because she was known for much of her life as the Countess of Carrick, Eleanor is often described as though she was a Bruce. However, she was Countess not through inheritance but through her first marriage.
  • m1. Alexander Bruce, Earl of Carrick (d Halidon Hill 19.07.1333) -- Alexander Bruce, 'Earl of Carrick' (d Halidon Hill 19.07.1333). TCP (Carrick) notes that Alexander dspm and that the following daughter is often attributed to him but adds "there seems to be no evidence of her existence".
    • (i) ? Eleanor Bruce -- m. Sir William de Cunynghame of Kilmaurs, 'Earl of Carrick'
  • m2. (c1349) Sir James of Sandilands (d 1358) --
    • 1. Sir James Sandilands of Calder m. (1384) Jean Stewart (dau of Robert Stewart, King Robert II of Scots)
    • 2. Patrick de Sandilands m. Isabella (relict of John de Lindsay)
  • m3. (by 1364) Sir William Towers of Dalry
  • m4. (by 1368) Sir Duncan Wallace of Sundrum (d c1376) --
  • m5. (1376, sp) Sir Patrick de Hepburn, lord of Hailes (b c1321, d before 1406)