GORDON, George 3rd of Gight 1
- Born: About 1525
- Marriage (1): BETON (BETHUNE), Agnes 1
- Died: 1579 1
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Research Notes:
THE 3RD LAIRD OF GIGHT
In Gight, in House of Gordon Volume 1, J.M.Bulloch argues that George Gordon, not James as is told in the Balbithan Manuscript, was the third Laird of Gight:
"George Gordon, III. of Gight. (Son of II. : killed 1579.) After full consideration of all the documentary facts, I am compelled to forego the Balbithan MS. theory of the early Gight succession in favour of another... I abandon the Balbithan MS. with reluctance, because as a rule it is very correct: but it is unquestionably wrong in calling the fourth laird, who, it says, married Agnes Beaton, 'Alexander'; while there is undoubted evidence that John of Ardmachar was served heir to Schivas, I can find no documentary evidence whatever to show that James of Cairnbannoch ever succeeded to Gight; while the 1564 reference in Pitcairn, already quoted, to the two George Gordons, elder and younger of Gight, strongly suggests that the two were father and son. When George, III. of Gight, died his daughter was served heir to him (1580), while in 1581 his uncle John of Ardmachar was served second heir to him. In any case, George III. was undoubtedly a grandson of the first laird, and represented the third generation of the Gordons of Gight."
Note: the Pitcairn reference, above, reads:
"1564. Oct. 12. George Gordon, 'knycht,' and George Gordon, 'younger' of Gight, and eighteen others were arraigned before the Privy Council for the 'crewale invassion of William Con of Auchry and hurting and wounding of him in divers parts of his body to the great effusion of his blude; and striking and draging with a brydill three of Con's cottars and otheris'. (Pitcairn's Criminal Trials, i., 453)." 1
George married Agnes BETON (BETHUNE), daughter of Cardinal David BETON (BETHUNE) Archbishop of St Andrews, Chancellor of Scotland and Mariota OGILVY.1 (Agnes BETON (BETHUNE) was born about 1533 and died after 26 July 1597 1.)
Marriage Notes:
"George Gordon married Agnes Beaton (she was alive in 1597), natural daughter of Cardinal David Beaton (murdered 1546) and Mariota Ogilvy, described in the Great Seal as Lady of Melgem, and in G. E. C.'s Complete Peerage as sister of Lord Ogilvy. She had a whole sister, Margaret Beaton, who married the tenth Earl of Crawford. An important reference to Agnes Beaton occurs in the Great Seal :
1577. Nov. 22. The king confirmed the charter of George Gordon of Schives which 'pro observatione promissi facti quondam Mariote Ogilvy domine de Melgem pro variis gratitudinibus sibi ante complementum matrimonii sui prestitis venditit Agneti Betoun conjugi sue, filie dicte Mar., pro tempore ejus vite' - the lands of Gight and others, to be held by the king. . John Gordon of 'Audiaill' is one of the witnesses."
from Gight 1
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