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Alexander Gordon (Seton), geb. ± 1410, ovl. 15 jul 1470, begr. te Elgin (Morayshire, Schotland), beroep(en): 1st.Earl of Huntly, zoon van sir Alexander Seton en Lady Elizabeth Gordon http://www.thegordondnaproject.com/284184.html http://www.clanmacfarlanegenealogy.info/genealogy/TNGWebsite/getperson.php?personID=I14044&tree=CC 2 - ALEXANDER, the eldest, was created EARL OF HUNTLY in 1449. He was a good deal employed in embassies and negotiations at the English court. During the rebellion of the Douglases Huntly was appointed by James II. (who placed great confidence in his integrity and judgment) lieutenant-general of the kingdom, and was intrusted with the difficult task of suppressing the rebellion of the Earls of Crawford and Ross, who had entered into a treasonable association with the Earl of Douglas. Marching northward with a powerful army under the royal standard, he encountered Crawford, at the head of his retainers and vassals, on a moor about two miles north-east of Brechin. The battle was fiercely contested, and for a considerable time the issue was very doubtful; but it was decided against the TigerEarl, as Crawford was called, by the desertion in the heat of the fight of one of his most trusted vassals, Collace of Balnamoon, at the head of three hundred men. Huntly lost two of his brothers, andGordon of Methlic, ancestor of the Earl of Aberdeen, in this sanguinary conflict. A brother of Crawford, and sixty other lords and gentlemen who fought on his side, were among the slain. The Earl andhis discomfited followers fled to Finhaven Castle. On alighting from his horse, the savage Earl called for a cup of wine, and declared with an oath that 'he wad be content to hang seven years in hellby the breers o' the e'en [eyelashes] to gain such a victory as had that day fallen to Huntly.' The Earl of Moray, one of the brothers of the Earl of Douglas, in revenge for Crawford's defeat, burned Huntly's castle of Strathbogie and ravaged his estates, and he shortly after surprised and defeated a body of the Gordons in a morass called Dunkinty. This repulse is commemorated in a jeering song which runs thus :\emdash 'Where did you leave your men, Thou Gordon so gay? In the bog of Dunkinty, Mowing the hay.' Lord Huntly died 15th July, 1470, and was buried at Elgin. He was three times married. His first wife, daughter of Robert de Keith, grandson of the Great Marischal of Scotland, brought him a fine estate but no children. His second wife, who was daughter and heiress of Sir John Hay of Tullibody, bore to him a son, Sir Alexander Seton, who inherited his mother's estate, and was ancestor of the Setons of Touch. The Earl's third wife, a daughter of Lord Crichton, High Chancellor of Scotland, bore to him three sons and three daughters. The title and estates were settled by charter on the issue of this third marriage, and the eldest son succeeded his father in 1470. Gebeurtenis: gebeurtenis met: Elizabeth Crichton, geb. ± 1420, ovl. 4 jul 1479, dochter van William Crichton en Agens |
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1) verm. Catherine Gordon, geb. ± 1446, ovl. te (...) ouders onzeker, zoon onzeker met: Adam Gordon, geb. te (...), ovl. ± 1528, beroep(en): Dean of Caithness http://www.thegordondnaproject.com/284184.html |
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