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SETON, THEN GORDON, Alexander Earl of Huntly, Sir
(Before 1410-1470)
CRICHTON, Elizabeth
(About 1420-After 1471)
DUFFUS, John Chaplain, Sir
(About 1450-)
GORDON, Adam Dean of Caithness, Governor of Petty
(About 1451-1528)
DUFFUS, Marriota
(About 1476-)
GORDON, Elizabeth
(About 1516-After 1566)

 

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Spouses/Children:
1. OGILVY, Alexander of that Ilk and Findlater
2. GORDON, John of Findlater, Sir

GORDON, Elizabeth 2 4

  • Born: About 1516
  • Marriage (1): OGILVY, Alexander of that Ilk and Findlater before 31 December 1535 1 2 3
  • Marriage (2): GORDON, John of Findlater, Sir 3 4
  • Died: After 1566 3

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Elizabeth married Alexander OGILVY of that Ilk and Findlater, son of James OGILVY and Agnes (2) GORDON, before 31 December 1535.1 2 3 (Alexander OGILVY of that Ilk and Findlater was born about 1480 and died in July 1554 3.)


  Marriage Notes:

"This Mr Adam Gordon Dean of Caithness and Governour of Petty begat three natural sons and a Daughter on a Gentlewoman viz. Mr George Gordon of Beldorney, John Gordon of Drummoyes in Sutherland, and Mr William Gordon Chancellour of Dunkell ; his Daughter married the Laird of Findlater Ogilvy and after his death she married John Gordon son to George 5th Earl of Huntly. The forsaid Laird of Findlater Ogilvy disponed the Lands of Findlater and Achindown to the said John Gordon Laird of Findlater who married his Lady."

from House of Gordon (vol 1)




"Alexander Ogilvy's wife was Elizabeth Gordon, daughter of Adam Gordon, Dean of Caithness, and granddaughter of Alexander, first Earl of Huntly."

from House of Gordon (vol 2)




"He (Alexander Ogilvy) married .... Secondly, before 31 December 1535, Elizabeth, natural daughter of Adam Gordon, Dean of Caithness, son of Alexander, first Earl of Huntly"

from Scots Peerage (vol 4) 1 2 3

Elizabeth next married Sir John GORDON of Findlater, son of George GORDON 4th Earl of Huntly and Elizabeth KEITH Countess of Huntly.3 4 (Sir John GORDON of Findlater was born about 1533 and died on 31 October 1562 3.)


  Marriage Notes:

"This Mr Adam Gordon Dean of Caithness and Governour of Petty begat three natural sons and a Daughter on a Gentlewoman viz. Mr George Gordon of Beldorney, John Gordon of Drummoyes in Sutherland, and Mr William Gordon Chancellour of Dunkell ; his Daughter married the Laird of Findlater Ogilvy and after his death she married John Gordon son to George 5th Earl of Huntly. The forsaid Laird of Findlater Ogilvy disponed the Lands of Findlater and Achindown to the said John Gordon Laird of Findlater who married his Lady."

from Balbithan MS




"He (Alexander Ogilvy) married .... Secondly, before 31 December 1535, Elizabeth, natural daughter of Adam Gordon, Dean of Caithness, son of Alexander, first Earl of Huntly ; she survived her husband, and married very shortly after his death .... John Gordon alias Ogilvie, the titular possessor of the Findlater estates. She was alive in 1566, having also survived her second husband, who was executed at Aberdeen 31 October 1562."

from Scots Peerage (vol 4)




"Sir John Gordon of Findlater was the 3rd son of George, 4th Earl of Huntly; and Alexander Ogilvy of that ilk and Findlater had married Elizabeth, daughter of Adam Gordon, Dean of Caithness. Alexander Ogilvy, disinheriting his own son by his first wife, Lady Janet Abernethy, known as James Ogilvy of Cardell, settled his baronies of Ogilvy and Findlater on Sir John Gordon, reserving his own and his wife's liferent in 1546. In this way Beldorney came into the possession of Gordons descended from the Earl of Huntly..."

Moreover, Sir John Gordon married the widow of the above Alexander Ogilvy, another Elizabeth Gordon. Much trouble resulted from those proceedings, and also after litigation an arbitration was made in 1566, by which the lands and barony of Findlater were assigned to James Ogilvy, and those of Auchindown and Keithmore to Sir Adam Gordon, thereafter of Auchindown and Gartly, brother of Sir John Beldorney remained in possession of the descendants of George, the son of Adam, Dean of Caithness."

from Gordons of Beldorney< 3 4 5

Sources


1 e-books, The House of Gordon vol. 2 ed. John Malcolm Bulloch (1907) Lesmoir by Douglas Wimberley.

2 e-books, The House of Gordon vol. 1 ed. John Malcolm Bulloch (1903).

3 e-books, The Scots Peerage ed. Sir James Balfour Paul vol. 4 (1907).

4 e-books, A Short Family History of the Later Gordons of Beldorney by Douglas Wimberley (1904).

5 e-books, The House of Gordon vol. 1 ed. John Malcolm Bulloch (1903) Balbithan MS.

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