GORDON, John, Colonel 1
- Born: About 1583
- Died: 1648, Danzig, Poland 1 2
- Buried: 1648, Delft, Holland 1
User ID: L826.
General Notes:
"Colonel John (Gordon), who immortalised himself, in 1634, by helping to assassinate Wallenstein, the generalissimo of the Holy Roman Empire. [....]
Gordon sent (Walter) Leslie at once to the Emperor with the news. Leslie was created Count of Neustadt, and made a great marriage by wedding Princess Anna de Dietrichstein, the daughter of the Prime Minister. Gordon was created a Marquis, and was made Bearer of the Gold Key, as High Chamberlain to the Emperor. Never before nor since have any natives of Aberdeenshire struck a blow of such international import, for Wallenstein was the Napoleon of his age ; and his assassination in the town of Eger on February 25, 1634, made all Europe, then writhing in the Thirty Years' War, open its eyes in wonder. Gordon visited his kinsman, John Innes, at Leuchars in 1644, but 'the intesten trouble of Scotland diverted him' from buying an estate in Scotland. He died at Dantzig, and was buried at Delft, Sir John Hurry, the famous Covenanting General, being at the funeral (Familie of Innes, p. 248). He was never married, his property being inherited by his half-sister, Anna Weache"
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