, Elizabeth ¹

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Elizabeth married John GORDON 10th of that Ilk, son of Sir Adam GORDON 9th of that Ilk and Unknown.¹ (John GORDON 10th of that Ilk was born about 1325 and died February 1360(1361) ¹.)

  Marriage Notes:

"John Gordon, who is first named in a writ of 12 August 1357 as one of certain prisoners taken by the English for whose release negotiations were going on. He is usually said to have been taken prisoner at Durham in 1346, but it is clearly shown that he was taken along with Archibald Douglas (afterwards third Earl of Douglas). Now Douglas had, by the ruse of a friend, escaped from the battle of Poictiers 19 September 1356, and it is stated that he, with John Gordon and others, were taken in time of truce by some misadventure which has never been explained. The truce had been made in May 1357 and the incident had taken place since then, while the prisoners were set free before November in that year. John Gordon therefore was only a short time a captive. In the following year, on 20 March 1357-58, King David II. confirmed to Gordon the grant of the lands of Strathbogie made to his grandfather, Sir Adam. He did not, however, enjoy his possessions long, as he died before February 1360-61.

His wife's name was Elizabeth, as appears, first, from a safe-conduct to her to visit friends in England, issued some time after her husband's release, and secondly, after his death, from a dispensation issued about February 1360-61 (though afterwards cancelled) for her marriage with Sir Robert Livingstone, he and her late husband being related in the fourth degree. John Gordon had issue"

from Scots Peerage (vol 4) ¹