GORDON, Christine 'of Pitlurg'? ¹

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Christine married Walter INNES of Innermarkie (Invermarkie), son of Sir Robert INNES 11th of that Ilk and Daughter DOUGLAS.¹ (Walter INNES of Innermarkie (Invermarkie) was born about 1444.)

  Marriage Notes:

In the text below, which refers to William Barclay (ID W376), Christine Gordon, wife of Walter Innes is identified as being "of Pitlurg". However, the armorial description of her family, as quoted, does not fit the marriage of the Gordon of Pitlurg where the generation dating for her would naturally assign her, for John Gordon married a daughter of the Forbes family. The Balbithan MS says: "John Gordon of Botarie Langar and Pitlurge married my Lord Pitsligo's daughter Forbes, with whom he begat two sons" No daughter of his is mentioned. It may be that the author of the Barclay history was simply in error and that Christine Gordon was the wife of Walter Innes but was not of the family of Gordon of Pitlurg, or that he was confused and that the wife of this Walter Innes was not named Christine Gordon. In any case, her "great-grandmothers", named below, have not identified her to this researcher.


"William Barclay was the author of some controversial works, written in Latin, one being a treatise on regal power, in which he upholds the divine right of kings. The earliest edition of this book, published in 1599, which is seldom found complete, contains his portrait (see illustration), surrounded by eight coats of arms of the families from which he claimed his descent. These coats of arms are of great genealogical value, and were without doubt appended to the birth-brief sent to the Duke of Lorraine by King James VI in 1582.

Reading the shields in the correct manner, they prove that William's father (Left I) was the son of Patrick Barclay and his wife, Elizabeth Arbuthnot (Left II), his paternal great-grandmothers being Guilda Leslie (Left III) and a daughter of Durham of Grange (Left IV), the mother of Elizabeth Arbuthnot.

On the right side of the portrait are the arms of William's mother (Right I), a daughter of Walter Innes of Innermarkie, and his wife, Christine Gordon of Pitlurg (Right II), his maternal great-grandmothers being a daughter of Ogilvy of Findlater (Right III) and a daughter of Meldrum of Pettindreich (Right IV), the mother of Christine Gordon."

from The History of the Family of Barclay ^{1 2}