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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 36. Chapters: 1286 births, 1286 crimes, 1286 deaths, Alexander III of Scotland, Hugh de Balsham, James Douglas, Lord of Douglas, Hugh Despenser the Younger, Abu Yusuf Yaqub ibn Abd Al-Haqq, Joan de Geneville, 2nd Baroness Geneville, Bar-Hebraeus, Odoric of Pordenone, Eric V of Denmark, Kalonymus ben Kalonymus, Elisabeth Richeza of Poland, Ibn Said al-Maghribi, List of state leaders in 1286, Sophia of Denmark, John I, Duke of Brittany, Roger Northwode, William of Moerbeke, Maurice FitzGerald, 3rd Lord of Offaly, John III, Duke of Brittany, William I, Count of Hainaut, Stig Andersen Hvide, John de Warenne, 8th Earl of Surrey, Ambrose of Siena, Beatrice of Castile, Marchioness of Montferrat, Marco Cornaro, Abul Abbas al-Mursi, John de Mowbray, 2nd Baron Mowbray, Bernard the Lightsome, Guy of Ibelin, Walter Scammel, Buluqhan Khatun, Isabella Pallavicini, Juana Nunez de Lara, Saint Jevstatije I, Jacob Nielsen, Count of Halland, Jacob I the Learned, Arlotto of Prato, John de Burgh, Anchero Pantaleone, Guy I of Clermont, Cathal O Madadhan, Fernan Peres do Paramo, Arias Soga, 1286 in poetry. Excerpt: Sir James Douglas (also known as Good Sir James and the Black Douglas), (circa 1286 - August 25, 1330), was a Scottish soldier and knight who fought in the Scottish Wars of Independence. He was the eldest son of Sir William Douglas, known as "le Hardi" or "the bold," who had been the first noble supporter of William Wallace (the elder Douglas died circa 1298, a prisoner in the Tower of London). His mother was Elizabeth Stewart, the daughter of Alexander Stewart, 4th High Steward of Scotland, who died circa 1287 or early 1288. His father remarried in late 1288 so Douglas' birth had to be prior to that; however, the destruction of records in Scotland makes an exact date or even year impossible to pinpoint. The poet and chronicler John Barbour ...
