William Douglas le Hardi

William Douglas le Hardi (1243–1298), Lord of Douglas, was a Scottish border baron and the father of the Black Douglas. By his first wife Elizabeth Stewart, daughter of the High Steward of Scotland, he had his heir James; in 1288 he abducted the wealthy widow Eleanor de Lovaine and made her his second wife.

He joined William Wallace's rising after the English conquest, was captured in 1297 and imprisoned in the Tower of London. There he died from ill treatment in January 1298.