DE GORDON, William ancestor of Gordons of Lochinvar ^{1 2 3}

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  General Notes:

"William (Gordon), who is first mentioned in January 1309-10 as getting a sum of 20 merks, bestowed on his father by King Edward II. The charter of Stichel, on 28 June 1315, was granted to him as fiar, and he was the ancestor of the Gordons of Lochinvar, Viscounts Kenmure."

from Scots Peerage (vol 4)




"William Gordon also came into possession of the half of the lands of Glenkens, a name still given to the district comprising the parishes of Dairy, Kells, Balmaclellan, and Carsphairn, in the stewartry of Kirkcudbright, including Lochinvar and Kenmure; which lands were acquired by Sir Adam Gordon from John de Maxwell about 1297, and had been derived from John Comyn, Earl of Buchan and Constable of Scotland.3 On 9 May 1354 a remission, signed at Cumnock, was granted to William and his followers in Galloway, by William, Lord Douglas, receiving them into the peace of the King, restoring them to their heritages, and discharging them of all transgressions committed since the battle of Durham, 17 October 1346. He obtained from Robert, Earl of Strathearn, afterwards King Robert II., a charter dated at Edinburgh, 8 April 1358, of the keeping of the new Forest of the Glenkens, in as ample a manner as the granter had got it from his uncle, King David II. William Gordon also obtained from the last-named King a grant of the lands of Balmonth in Fife."

from Scots Peerage (vol 5) ^{2 3}

William married.