SUTHERLAND, Elizabeth 10th Countess of Sutherland ^{1 2}

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  General Notes:

"In July 1509 her half-brother Alexander, by advice of his curators, resigned his right to the earldom in favour of her brother John and herself. Two months earlier it was proposed to infeft Elizabeth as heir of her father, but this plan was abandoned, and her brother John was served heir .... The steps taken as to Earl John's incapacity have already been indicated, and his death in July 1514 opened the succession to Elizabeth. After some preliminary proceedings she was, on 3 October 1514, served heir to her brother as the last holder of the earldom. Her half-brother Alexander sent a procurator to Inverness to oppose the service, alleging an entail by royal charter of the lands and earldom of Sutherland. But he did not produce it, and the jury duly made the service. The precept for her infeftment in the earldom was, however, not issued till May 1515, and she was finally infeft on 30 June 1515. After this she and her husband were styled Earl and Countess of Sutherland."

from Scots Peerage ¹

Elizabeth married Adam GORDON Lord of Aboyne, Earl of Sutherland, jure uxoris, son of Sir George GORDON 2nd Earl of Huntly, High Chancellor of Scotland and Elizabeth HAY, in 1500.¹ (Adam GORDON Lord of Aboyne, Earl of Sutherland, jure uxoris was born about 1472, died on 17 March 1537 in Ferrar, near Aboyne, Aberdeenshire, Scotland ¹ and was buried in Aboyne, Aberdeenshire, Scotland ¹.)

  Marriage Notes:

"Adam, second son, first named in his brother's contract of marriage of 14 October 1474, which shows that even at that early date their marriage was arranged. He married, but at what date is not certain, Elizabeth, daughter and eventual heiress of John, eighth Earl of Sutherland, and in her right he became Earl
of Sutherland."

from Scots Peerage (vol 4)




"Elizabeth, Countess of Sutherland, who became such after her brother John's death. Little is recorded of her before that date except her marriage, which. Sir Robert Gordon says, took place in 1500, to Adam Gordon, second son of George, second Earl of Huntly."

from Scots Peerage (vol 8)




"Adam of Aboyne, who married the heiress of the Sutherland family, and Adam's daughter, Lady Helenor, married a George Gordon of Auchmalidy, apparently of the Auchmenzie family (see Rec. of Aboyne, p. 212), and got Tilphoudie for her portion, and her brother John, who resided at Tilphoudie, had a daughter who became the wife of George Gordon of Coclarachie. (See Rec. of Aboyne, p. 42.)"

from Gordon of Craig ^{1 2 3}