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Dukedom of Queensberry
Created byCharles II
PeeragePeerage of Scotland
MottoQueensberry: Forward
Buccleuch: Amo ("I love")

The title Duke of Queensberry was created in the Peerage of Scotland on 3 February 1684 along with the subsidiary title Marquess of Dumfriesshire for the 1st Marquess of Queensberry. The Dukedom was held along with the Marquessate of Queensberry until the death of the 4th Duke (and 5th Marquess) in 1810, when the Marquessate was inherited by Sir Charles Douglas of Kelhead, 5th Baronet, while the Dukedom was inherited by the 3rd Duke of Buccleuch. Since then the title of Duke of Queensberry has been held by the Dukes of Buccleuch.

Arms of the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Dukes of Queensberry.

In 1708 the 2nd Duke was created Duke of Dover (along with the subsidiary titles Marquess of Beverley and Baron Ripon) in the Peerage of Great Britain, but these titles became extinct upon the death of the 2nd Duke of Dover in 1778.

Several subsidiary titles are associated with the Dukedom of Queensberry, namely Marquess of Dumfriesshire (1683), Earl of Drumlanrig and Sanquhar (1682), Viscount of Nith, Tortholwald and Ross (1682) and Lord Douglas of Kilmount, Middlebie and Dornock (1682) (all in the Peerage of Scotland).

The seat of the Dukes is at Drumlanrig Castle, built by the 1st Duke of Queensberry.

Dukes of Queensberry (1684)

Other titles: Marquess of Dumfriesshire, Earl of Drumlanrig and Sanquhar, Viscount of Nith, Torthorwald and Ross and Lord Douglas of Kilmount, Middlebie and Dornock (1684)
Other titles (1st to 4th Dukes): Marquess of Queensberry (1682), Earl of Queensberry (1633), Earl of Drumlanrig and Sanquhar (1682), Viscount of Drumlanrig (1628), Viscount of Drumlanrig (1633), Viscount of Nith, Torthorwald and Ross (1682), Lord Douglas of Hawick and Tibbers (1628), Lord Douglas of Hawick and Tibbers (1633) and Lord Douglas of Kilmount, Middlebie and Dornock (1682)
Other titles (2nd & 3rd Dukes): Duke of Dover, Marquess of Beverley and Baron Ripon (1708)
Other titles (3rd Duke): Earl of Solway, Viscount Tibbers and Lord Douglas of Lockerby, Dalveen and Thornhill (1706)
Memorial to James Douglas and Mary, his wife at Durisdeer.
  • Charles Douglas, 3rd Duke of Queensberry, 2nd Duke of Dover (1698–1778), third son of the 2nd Duke, succeeded his father due to special remainder and died without issue
    • Henry Douglas, Earl of Drumlanrig (1722–1754), elder son of the 3rd Duke, died without issue
    • Charles Douglas, Earl of Drumlanrig (1726–1756), younger son of the 3rd Duke, died without issue
Other titles (4th Duke): Earl of Ruglen (1697), Earl of March (1697), Viscount of Riccartoun (1697), Viscount of Peebles (1697), Lord Hillhouse (1697), Lord Douglas of Neidpath, Lyne and Munard (1697) and Baron Douglas, of Amesbury in the county of Wiltshire (GB, 1786)
Other titles (5th Duke onwards): Duke of Buccleuch (1663), Earl of Buccleuch (1619), Earl of Doncaster, in the county of York (En 1663, restored 1743), Earl of Dalkeith (1663), Lord Scott of Buccleuch (1606), Baron Scott of Whitchester and Eskdaill (1619), Baron Scott of Tindall, in the county of Northumberland (En 1663, restored 1743) and Lord Scott of Whitchester and Eskdale (1663)

Coat of arms

Coat of arms of Duke of Buccleuch and Duke of Queensberry
Adopted
1935
Coronet
A coronet of a Duke
Crest
A Stag trippant proper armed and attired Or
Escutcheon
Quarterly: 1st grandquarter for the Earldom of Doncaster: the arms of King Charles II debruised by a Baton Sinister Argent; 2nd grandquarter for the Dukedom of Argyll: quarterly, 1st and 4th: Gyronny of eight Or and Sable (Campbell); 2nd and 3rd: Argent a Lymphad sails furled Sable flags and pennons flying Gules and oars in action of the second (Lorne); 3rd grandquarter for the Dukedom of Queensberry: quarterly, 1st and 4th: Argent a Heart Gules crowned with an Imperial Crown Or on a Chief Azure three Mullets of the field (Douglas); 2nd and 3rd, Azure a Bend between six Cross Crosslets fitchée Or (Mar); the whole of this grandquarter within a Bordure Or charged with a double Tressure flory-counter-flory Gules; 4th grandquarter for the Dukedom of Montagu: quarterly, 1st: Argent three Fusils conjoined in fess Gules a Bordure Sable (Montagu); 2nd: Or an Eagle displayed Vert beaked and membered Gules (Monthermer); 3rd: Sable a Lion rampant Argent on a Canton of the last a Cross Gules (Churchill); 4th: Argent a Chevron Gules between three Caps of Maintenance their fronts turned to the sinister Azure furred Ermine (Brudenell); over the grandquarters at the fess point an Inescutcheon Or on a Bend Azure a Mullet of six points between two Crescents of the field (Scott).
Supporters
On either side a Female Figure proper habited from the waist downwards in a Kirtle Azure gathered up at the knees the arms and bosom uncovered around the shoulders a Flowing Mantle as before suspended by the exterior hand girdle and sandals Gules and her head adorned with a Plume of three Ostrich Feathers Argent
Motto
Amo ("I Love")

Family Tree

William Douglas
1st Earl of Queensberry
died 1639/40
James Douglas
2nd Earl of Queensberry
died 1671		Honourable Sir
William Douglas
died before 1673
William Douglas
3rd Earl of Queensberry
later
1st Marquess of Queensberry
later
1st Duke of Queensberry
1637–1695		Sir James Douglas
of Kelhead
1st Baronet
1639–1708
James Douglas
2nd Duke of Queensberry
2nd Marquess of Queensberry
1662–1711		Lord William Douglas
1st Earl of March
died 1705		Sir William Douglas
of Kelhead
2nd Baronet
died 1733
James Douglas
3rd Marquess of Queensberry[2]
1697–1715		Charles Douglas
3rd Duke of Queensberry
2nd Duke of Dover
4th Marquess of Queensberry
1698–1778		Lady
Jean Douglas
1701–1729		Francis Scott
2nd Duke of Buccleuch
1695–1751		William Douglas
2nd Earl of March
1696–1731		Sir John Douglas
of Kelhead
3rd Baronet
died 1778
Francis Scott,
Earl of Dalkeith
(1721–1750)		William Douglas
3rd Earl of March
later
4th Duke of Queensberry
5th Marquess of Queensberry [3][4]
1725–1810		Sir William Douglas
of Kelhead
4th Baronet
died 1783
Henry Scott,
3rd Duke of Buccleuch
5th Duke of Queensberry [5]
1746–1812
Succeeded to Dukedom of Queensberry, 1810		Sir Charles Douglas
of Kelhead
5th Baronet
later
6th Marquess of Queensberry
1777–1837		John Douglas
7th Marquess of Queensberry
1779–1856
George Scott,
Earl of Dalkeith
(1768)		Charles William Henry Montagu-Scott,
4th Duke of Buccleuch
6th Duke of Queensberry
1772–1819		Archibald William Douglas
8th Marquess of Queensberry
1818–1858
George Henry Scott,
Lord Scott of Whitchester
1798–1808		Walter Francis M.D.Scott,
5th Duke of Buccleuch
7th Duke of Queensberry
1806–1884		John Sholto Douglas
9th Marquess of Queensberry
1844–1900
William Henry Walter M.D.Scott,
6th Duke of Buccleuch
8th Duke of Queensberry
1831–1914		Lord Francis Douglas
Styled
Viscount Drumlaning
Created
1st Baron Kelhead
1867–1894		Percy Douglas
10th Marquess of Queensberry
1868–1920
Walter Henry M.D.Scott,
Earl of Dalkeith
1861–1886		John Charles M.D.Scott,
7th Duke of Buccleuch
9th Duke of Queensberry
1864–1935		Francis Archibald Kelhead Douglas
11th Marquess of Queensberry
1898–1954
Walter John M.D.Scott,
8th Duke of Buccleuch,
10th Duke of Queensberry
1894–1973		David Harrington Angus Douglas
12th Marquess of Queensberry
born 1929
Walter Francis John M.D.Scott,
9th Duke of Buccleuch
11th Duke of Queensberry
1923–2007		Sholto Francis Guy Douglas
Styled
Viscount Drumlanrig
born 1967
Heir Apparent to
the Marquessate 		Lord
Torquil Oberon Tobias Douglas
born 1978
Richard Walter John M.D.Scott,
10th Duke of Buccleuch
12th Duke of Queensberry
born 1954
Walter John Francis M.D.Scott,
Earl of Dalkeith
born 1984
Heir Apparent to
the Dukedom

References

  1. ^ Debrett, John (1820). The Peerage of the United Kingdom of Great Britain & Ireland. F.C. and J. Rivington. pp. 635–639. Retrieved 21 November 2016.
  2. ^ The 3rd Marquess, a homicidal maniac, was excluded from the line of succession to the Dukedom when the 2nd Duke surrendered all of his titles except the Marquessate and its subsidiary titles back to the Crown and obtained a new grant with the same precedence for the surrendered titles that altered the succession to his second son and then the heirs male and female of the 1st Earl of Queensberry. The succession of the Marquessate continued in remainder to the heirs male of the 1st Earl of Queensberry.
  3. ^ Upon the death of the 4th Duke of Queensberry, the Dukedom and the Marquessate were split with the Marquessate being inherited by the most senior male heir of the 1st Earl of Queensberry while the Dukedom descended through a more senior female heir.
  4. ^ Upon the death of the 4th Duke, the Earldom of March passed to the heir general of the 1st Earl of March.
  5. ^ The Dukedom of Buccleuch is the more senior title but for the purposes of this tree, the Dukedom of Queensberry is given prominence.
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