TH REAVE CASTLE 165 SECOND PERIOD Douglas, an illegitimate son of the good Sir James Douglas, towards the end of the fourteenth century. Notwithstanding his illegitimacy he was appointed Lord of Galloway in 1369, and in 1389 succeeded to the Earldom of Douglas. He saw much of battles, both at home and abroad, having served at Halidon in 1333 and at Poictiers, 1356. In his govern- ment of Galloway he justly earned the sobriquet by which he is now known of " Archibald the Grim." FIG. 132.- Threave Castle. View from the North-East. He married Joan, daughter of Thomas Murray, Lord of Bothwell, and died at Threave on 3d February 1401. In 1455 the castle was forfeited by James, Earl of Douglas, to the King, who appointed keepers to hold it in his interests. Up to the time of the Covenanters it seems to have been a place of habitation, and was in the possession of the Nithsdale family, who were opposed to the Reformed religion. In 1640 its demolition was begun, when the War Council " ordaines the hows of Threave to be
