Marriage and Issue
Sir Archibald Douglas married Beatrice Lindsay, daughter of Sir Alexander Lindsay of Crawford, an ancestor of the Earls of Crawford. They had three children.
- John Douglas (d.b. 1342 in the retinue of David II of Scotland in France)
- William Douglas, 1st Earl of Douglas
- Eleanor Douglas married five times
- Alexander, Earl of Carrick, natural son of Edward Bruce, King of Ireland (k. 1333, Battle of Halidon Hill)
- Sir James de Sandilands, ancestor of the Lords of Torphichen (d.b. 1358)
- Sir William Tours of Dalry (d.b. 1368)
- Sir Duncan Wallace of Sundrum (d.b. 1376)
- Sir Patrick Hepburn of Hailes, ancestor of the Earls of Bothwell
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