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Robert Douglas, 1st Viscount Belhaven

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His son John is assumed to have predeceased him, but his daughter Susanna Douglas married her cousin, Robert Douglas of Blackerston. On his death, his estate including the Gorbals Mansion House passed to his nephew and son-in-law. Lord Belhaven died at
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in 1609. He led the horse of state at Prince Henry's funeral in December 1612. In July 1616 he went to France with
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of the royal stables, and was killed. Robert Douglas was given his brother's place at court, and became
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in Edinburgh where his monument remains today. As he had no sons the viscountcy died with him.
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The second son of Malcolm Douglas of Mains (executed 1584), by Janet Cunningham, daughter of
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Douglas was sent with to France with a gift of horses in July 1607. He was
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His older brother fought a duel with the brother of Oliver Leigh of
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The old country houses of the old Glasgow gentry (chapter 70)
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Coat of Arms of Robert Douglas
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courtier
John Cunningham, of Drumquhassil
Addington
avener
Master of the Horse
Prince Henry
Gentleman of the Bedchamber
James VI and I
Charles I
Master of the Household
knighted
Lord Hay
Scottish Privy Council
Peerage of Scotland
Robert Murray
Abercairny
Edward Whalley
regicide
Edinburgh
Holyrood Abbey




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