GORDON, Alexander in the Scots Brigade in Holland, Colonel 1
- Born: About 1545
- Marriage (1): PEDRALIS, Jacobee of Aungadere 1
User ID: L848.
General Notes:
"Alexander (Gordon) was a soldier. The Balbithan MS. says that he was 'killed at the wars in Holland,' but Sir Robert Gordon's statement (The Earls of Sutherland, p. 180) is probably the more correct.
"The yeir of God, 1585, Captane Alexander Gordoun (brother to William Gordoun of Gight) wes governor of the fort of Tour-Louis, besyd Antwerp, when it was rendered to the Duke of Parma : which fort wes manfullie defended by Captane Alexander Gordoun a long tyme against the Spaniards, with the losse of much of his owne blood, and the lyves of many of his souldiers. Then wes he maid governor of Bergen-op-zom by Prince Maurice his excellence, and therefter maid Colonell of a Scottish regiment. [This regiment was probably part of the Scots Brigade in Holland, for, according to Ferguson's history of the same, an Alexander Gordon served in Col. William Stewart's Regiment, 1579-81.] In end, coming home to visite his friends in Scotland, he wes slain in Monteith by some evill willers who had secretlie layd ane ambush for him.' "
from Gight 1
Alexander married Jacobee PEDRALIS of Aungadere.1 (Jacobee PEDRALIS of Aungadere was born about 1560.)
Marriage Notes:
"The issue of this Alexander (Gordon) is not quite clear. According to the Balbithan MS. he married 'a gentlewoman in Holland, and begat with her
(1) CAPTAIN ALXR GORDON in Holland. This Alexander married in Holland, and begat A son, who was a captain anno 1633.' According to Mr. James Ferguson's History of the Scots Brigade there was an Alexander Gordon in Captain James Scott's company in 1639.
Sir Robert Gordon (Earls of Sutherland, p. 180) gives a different account of Alexander Gordon's issue. He says that he 'mareid Jacobee Pedralis of Aungadere, ane Italian gentlewoman, by whom he had tuo sons' :
(2) GEORGE.
(3) CAPTAIN JOHN, who was slain in Holland. There is a good deal in Mr. Ferguson's Scots Brigade about a Captain John Gordon who was reported in 1609 to have been absent from his regiment for six months. His company fell into a very bad state and was discharged. In 1618 his case was still before the States of Utrecht, to whom he made references to the services done by his father in Brabant. The Captain John Gordon mentioned in the Earls of Sutherland had according to that authority (p. 180) a son,
ALEXANDER."
from Gight 1
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