GORDON, Patrick 1
- Born: About 1425
- Died: 18 May 1452, Battle of Brechin, Angus, Scotland 1
Cause of his death was killed in action.1
User ID: B779.
General Notes:
"PATRICK, who was killed at Brechin on Ascension Day 1452, fighting in the king's army under the Earl of Huntly
against the Earl of Crawford in rebellion, and the Haddo House charters indicate that the lands had previously
belonged in superiority to the families of de Fullertoun, de Camera or Chalmers, Barclay of Menteith, and Meldrum. From these the father of Patrick Gordon, who may well have been the James of the Pitlurg pedigree, doubtless acquired some interest, afterwards paramount, while the lands of Kellie were held by Gordon of Methlic of the Earls of Crawford until the sixteenth century.
from Scots Peerage
Research Notes:
FATHER? OR BROTHER?
It is often generally asserted, though not by Scots Peerage, that the Patrick Gordon who died in 1452 at the Battle of Brechin was father of the second James Gordon of Methlick and Haddo; Scots Peerage allows only for the possibility. No evidence is forthcoming regarding that relationship, nor whether he was ever married or had any children. Secondary sources dispute whether he died at Arbroath in 1445 or in Brechin in 1452.
The Balbithan Manuscript which is, on the whole, pretty accurate with many Gordon families does not mention him. It mentions a Patrick who succeeds James as 'second Laird of Haddo'. That Patrick had sasine of Methlick in 1475, so clearly he cannot be the above-mentioned Patrick, unless Patrick, son of James did not die in battle in the mid-15th century. The sequence of dates make it less likely, though not impossible, that he was the grandfather of the 2nd laird, Patrick, and more likely that he was perhaps his uncle. 1 2 3
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