DE GORDOUN, Adam of that Ilk, Sir ¹

   Another name for Adam was DE GORDUN, Adam 2nd of that Ilk.

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  General Notes:

"Another Laird of Gordon is said to have fallen at the battle of the Standard, 22 August 1138, though the contemporary account of that conflict makes no mention of such a person. These are parts of the family tradition not necessarily untrue, but unsubstantiated. There was certainly, as will be shown, a family named Gurdon or Gordun, in the south of England. Yet it does not follow that the family were foreign settlers. It has been suggested that they were cadets of the family of Swinton, as the coat-of-arms borne by the two families is the same.Whether this be so or not, and it is not disproved by the fact that they were long at feud, the name Gordon does not occur as a surname on record till after 1171 at the earliest, and was probably assumed by the then owners of the lands of Gordon, who may have been in possession for a long time under the Earls of Dunbar, the overlords of that neighbourhood."

from Scots Peerage ²

  Research Notes:

OF THAT ILK

This simply means the name is repeated
eg Adam Gordon of Gordon
James Leslie of Leslie
It usually represents the main, or first branch, of a noble family, and that the surname and location of family land are identical.

Adam married.