Sir Adam DE GORDON [7486] 1766
- Born: January 1356, Huntly, , Aberdeen, Scotland 1766
- Marriage (1): Elisabeth DE KEITH [7487] in 1380 in , , , Scotland 1767
- Died: 14 September 1402, Humbleton Hill, , Northumberland, England at age 46 1766
- Buried: 14 September 1402 1766
FamilySearch ID: L2LX-2SX.
General Notes:
Sir Adam Gordon succeeded to his brother [John]. In October 1398 he was, on account of 'unmesurit harmes,' excepted from free exchange of prisoners on the Marches, and was obliged to appear before the Border commissioners as a common truce-breaker under a fine of £1000.
On 20 January 1398-99, he granted, as Adam Gordon, lord of that ilk, a bond to William le Bard of Kirkwood.
When the Earl of March in 1400 passed to the service of Kent Henry IV, and his Scottish estates were forfeited, Gordon was granted the superiority of his lands of Gordon and Fogo, and thus attained baronial rank. He is styled Lord of Gordon among the barons in the English accounts of the Homildon, and Sir Adam Gordon, Knight, in writs of a later date, which corroborates the story told by Bower, and elaborated by Sir Walter Scott in his drama of Homildon Hill, how the Lord of Gordon, charmed by the bold advice of Sir John Swinton, though their families had been long at feud, sprang from his horse, knelt at Sir John's feet, and begged the honour of knighthood at his hand. They then rushed side by side against the enemy, and fell together in the battle on 13 September 1402. Bower carefully distinguished Gordon before his receiving the accolade as Lord of Gordon, and after it as Sir Adam Gordon, Knight. He is so designed in charters to his daughter after his death.
Sir Adam, according to Ferrerius, married the only daughter of the Laird of Somervill, but this seems to be a perversion of a fact to be stated later. There is better evidence that his wife was Elizabeth Keith, fourth daughter of Sir William Keith, Marischal of Scotland, by his wife, Margaret Fraser, only child and heiress of Sir John Fraser and granddaughter of Sir Alexander Fraser, who held the territory of Aboyne and other lands in the shires of Aberdeen, Kincardine, and Forfar.
The marriage probably took place before or about 1380, as Elizabeth Keith's eldest sister, Muriel, married, in 1379, as his second wife, Robert, Earl of Fife and Menteith.
Elizabeth Gordon survived her first husband;
married, secondly, Sir Nicholas Erskine of Kinnoull, who left her again a widow before December 1406; and,
thirdly, Thomas Somerville, probably the Thomas Somerville who was Lord of Carnwath.
She, under the designation of Elizabeth of Keith, Lady of the barony of Aboyne, with consent of Thomas Somerville, her husband, granted, on 20 October 1431, infeftment of certain lands in the barony of Aboyne to Sir Alexander Forbes. She had thus succeeded to her mother, Margaret Fraser, in some at least of her large estates, including Aboyne and Cluny.
She died about 1436, as in 1437 these lands were in possession of her daughter, whose husband lifted the rents.
Sir Adam Gordon and Elizabeth had issue:
1. John
2. Elizabeth, who succeeded her brother.
Source: THE SCOTS PEERAGE, ed. by Sir James Balfour Paul, Vol IV, Edinburgh, 1906, p. 516-18
Death Notes:
Killed the Battle of Humbleton Hill
Noted events in his life were:
1. Clan: Gordon,,. 1768
2. Cause of Death: Died in the Battle of Homildon Hill, in 1402,. 1768
3. Title Of Nobility: Knight, on an unknown date,. 1768
4. Title Of Nobility: Lord of Gordon, on an unknown date,. 1768
5. Death: He was killed at the Battle of Homildon Hill, on 14 September 1402, in Alnwick, , Northumberland, England. 1768
Adam married Elisabeth DE KEITH [7487] [MRIN: 5666], daughter of William KEITH 2nd Lord Marischal [7499] and Margaret FRASER [7500], in 1380 in , , , Scotland.1767 (Elisabeth DE KEITH [7487] was born in 1360 in Aboyne, , Aberdeenshire, Scotland,1766 died on 16 March 1438 in Huntly, , Aberdeen, Scotland 1766 and was buried on 16 March 1436 in Carnwath, Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom 1766.)
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