FITZGILBERT (OR HAMILTON), Walter 1st of Cadzow, ancestor of the Dukes of Hamilton, Sir ¹

Walter married Mary DE GORDUN, daughter of Sir Adam GORDON 8th of that Ilk, Justiciar of Lothian and Amabilia.¹ (Mary DE GORDUN was born about 1290.)

  Marriage Notes:

"Mary (de Gordun), who married Sir Walter FitzGilbert, ancestor of the ducal house of Hamilton, was probably the daughter of this Sir Adam."

from Scots Peerage (vol 4)




"The name of his (Sir Walter de Hamilton's) first wife is unknown. He married, secondly, Mary, the only daughter of Adam, Dominus de Gordon, a nobleman of great influence and respectability, and who acted a very distinguished part during the reigns of Baliol, Robert the Bruce, and David the Second. This is authenticated by a charter from King Robert, in the ninth year 1315. of his reign : -

' Waltero, Alio Gilberti, dilecto et fideli nostro, totum tenementum de Machan, quod fuit quondam Joan. Cumyn, mil. cum pertinen. in Valle de Clude, tenend. dicto Waltero et haeredibus suis, inter ipsum et Mariam de Gordoune, sponsam suam, legitime procreatis; et, ipsis haeredibus deficientibus, hgeredibus ejusdem Walteri, de uxore sua priore legitimi geniti,' &c.

He had another charter from the same Prince -

' To Walter, the son of Gilbert, and his wife Mary Gordon, and their heirs, of the lands and barony of Kinniel,' dated 28th July 1324."

from Memoirs of the House of Hamilton ^{1 2}