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Family of George + GORDON and Elizabeth HAY

Husband: George + GORDON (1430-1501)
Wife: Elizabeth HAY (c. 1435- )
Children: Catherine GORDON (c. 1465- )
Eleanor GORDON (c. 1467- )
Marriage

Husband: George + GORDON

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George + GORDON

Name: George + GORDON
Sex: Male
Father: Alexander + GORDON (1410-1470)
Mother: Elizabeth + CRICHTON (1410-1479)
Birth 1430 Huntly Castle, Abdershire, Scorland
Title 15 Jul 1470 (age 39-40) Earl of Huntley
Occupation Second Earl of Huntly
Death 8 Jun 1501 (age 70-71) Stirling Castle, Stirling, Scotland

Wife: Elizabeth HAY

Name: Elizabeth HAY
Sex: Female
Father: -
Mother: -
Birth 1435 (est)

Child 1: Catherine GORDON

Name: Catherine GORDON
Sex: Female
Birth 1465 (est)

Child 2: Eleanor GORDON

Name: Eleanor GORDON
Sex: Female
Birth 1467 (est)

Note on Husband: George + GORDON

George was the son of Alexander (Seton) Gordon, 1st Earl of Huntly and his second wife Elizabeth Crichton, daughter of William Crichton, 1st Lord Crichton.[1] George is first mentioned by name in 1441 when the lands which later became part of the Earldom were settled on him and his heirs.[2] George was almost certainly born shortly before this time, c. 1441 as his parents married bef. 18 March 1439–40.[3]

 

In his contract with Elizabeth Dunbar, Countess of Moray, dated 20 May 1455 he is styled the Master of Huntley.[4] He is addressed as "Sir George Seton, knight", in a royal precept dated 7 March 1456–7 while in a crown charter dated a year later he uses the name of Gordon for the first time indicating he had assumed that surname.[4] As George, Lord Gordon, he was keeper of the castles of Kildrummy, Kindrochat and Inverness.[4] He succeeded his father as Earl of Huntly c. 15 July 1470.[4]

 

Shortly after becoming Earl of Huntly he was involved with the Earl of Ross in a private war in which the king, James III of Scotland interceded. Ross was charged with treason, but after refusing a summons from the king, was outlawed.[5] One of the expeditions sent against the errant Earl of Ross was led by Alexander and after he captured Dingwall Castle and pressed his army into Lochaber, Ross relented and sought pardon for his actions from the king.[6] In 1479 he was justiciary north of the River Forth, one of his primary duties was the suppression of feuds between Highland clans.[6] In 1497 George Gordon was appointed High Chancellor of Scotland, the honor probably bestowed at the same time his daughter Catherine married Perkin Warbeck, an adventurer in favor with King James IV of Scotland.[7] George was Chancellor until 1500.[8] George, the second earl died at Stirling Castle on 8 June 1501.[3]

Family

 

On 20 May 1455, George was contracted to married Elizabeth Dunbar, the daughter of John Dunbar, 4th Earl of Moray, and recent widow of Archibald Douglas, Earl of Moray.[8] The marriage was annulled due to affinity before March 1459–60; the couple had no children.[9]

 

George secondly married, before March 1459–60, Annabella of Scotland, youngest daughter of king James I of Scotland.[10] After several years of marriage the Earl of Gordon instituted proceedings to have this marriage annulled as well on the grounds that Lady Annabella was related in the third and fourth degrees of consanguinity to his first wife Elizabeth, and the marriage was dissolved on 24 July 1471.[11]

 

Gordon married thirdly, Elizabeth Hay, sister of Nicholas Hay, 2nd Earl of Erroll, George's brother-in-law and swore a solemn oath to have no 'actual delen' with the lady until after they were married.[12] He married Elizabeth Hay shortly after 18 August 1471.[13]

 

George Gordon, the second Earl had a number of children but with few exceptions there remains no clear consensus as to which child was of was of the second marriage and which of the third:

 

Alexander Gordon, 3rd Earl of Huntly (died 21 January 1523/24)[a][11]

Adam Gordon, married Elizabeth, daughter and heir of John, 8th Earl of Sutherland, and in her right became Earl of Sutherland.[11]

William Gordon, married Janet Ogilvy and was the ancestor of the Gordon's of Gight from whom Lord Byron was a descendant.[14]

James Gordon, mentioned in an entail in 1498.[14]

Janet Gordon, married 1st, Alexander Lindsay, Master of Crawfurd; 2nd, Patrick, Master of Gray (annulled); 3rdly she married Patrick Butler of Gormark; and 4thly James Halkerston of Southwood. She died before February 1559[15]

Isabella (d. 1485), wife of William Hay, 3rd Earl of Errol (d. 1507), though some sources list them as having as many as six children. The Earl obtained an annulment on 24 July 1471 on the basis of Annabella of Scotland's consanguinity with Elizabeth Dunbar. He then married his mistress, Elizabeth Hay, on 12 May 1476; they had children:

Lady Catherine Gordon (died October 1537), probably a daughter of Elizabeth Hay, she married 1st, Perkin Warbeck (d. 1499) notorious for claiming to be Richard of Shrewsbury, 1st Duke of York, one of the young princes who disappeared from history in the Tower of London; as his widow she married 2ndly, James Strangeways of Fyfield (d. 1515); a widow again she married Matthew Cradock of Swansea (d. 1531); and as her 4th husband married Christopher Assheton of Fyfield.[16] She was well received at the court of Henry VII who styled her 'the White Rose'.[16] She had no issue by any of her husbands.[16]

Eleanor Gordon[17]

Agnes Gordon[17]

Elizabeth Gordon, in 1481 contracted to marry William Keith, 3rd Earl Marischal[18]1

Sources

1"Wikipedia".