GORDON, Elizabeth ^{1 2}

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  General Notes:

"1585. April 5. The king confirms the charter by John Gordon of Gight (which, with the consent of William, his son and apparent heir) for fulfilment of a contract entered into between Sir Patrick Gordon of Auchindoun, tutor dative to Elizabeth, daughter and heir legally served to the late George Gordon of Scheves and in name of Agnes Betoun his spouse on the one part, and the said John in name of Marjorie Gordon his spouse and the said William for himself and in name of Elizabeth Auchterlonie his spouse on the other part, of the date at Aberdeen, 3rd January, 1582-3, granting to his grandson, George Gordon, eldest son of the said William, the lands and barony of Scheves, etc. Reserving to the said John elder, Marjorie, William elder, and Elizabeth Auchterlonie, their life rents as outside the terms of the contract between the said John and William, of date 1582, with precept of sasine directed to Alexander Gordon in Stanehouse. Reserving also to Elizabeth, Lady of Gight, her life rent of the lands and pertinents, etc. The witnesses are William Gordon of Auchindoir, three advocates (William Davidson, John Cheyne and Patrick Cheyne), and Captain John Gordon [the last probably being Ardmachar's son, who was executed for the Donibristle affair of 1592] (Great Seal)."

from Gight ²

Elizabeth married Sir George HOME of Berwick, then Earl of Dunbar, son of Alexander HOME 2nd of Manderston and Jean HOME, by 22 May 1596(grant).^{1 2} (Sir George HOME of Berwick, then Earl of Dunbar was born about 1560 and died 29 January 1611(1612) in Whitehall, London, England ².)

  Marriage Notes:

"The Earl of Dunbar married Elizabeth, only child of George Gordon of Gight, by his wife Agnes, a natural daughter of Cardinal Beaton. They had two daughters"

from Scots Peerage (vol 3)




"By her husband, the laird of Gight, she (Agnes Beaton) had only one child, a daughter, Elizabeth, and from her many noblemen of to-day are descended. [....]

On May 22, 1596, Elizabeth Gordon and her husband, Home, were granted the lands of Derington (Great Seal). Home was created Baron Hume of Berwick in 1604, and advanced to the Earldom of Dunbar in 1605. He attended King James VI. into England, and was made K.G. in 1608. He died suddenly at Whitehall on January 29, 1611-2. Some say he was poisoned, which ought just to have been a Gordon's luck, for her father and her step-father had been killed and her maternal grandfather murdered. Lord Dunbar left no male issue, and his earldom became dormant (G. E. C.'s Complete Peerage, iii., 201). His barony seems to have vested in his two daughters and co-heirs, Anne and Elizabeth."

from Gight ^{1 2}