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George "George Gordon 2nd Earl of Huntley" Gordon 2nd Earl of Huntly
(Bef 1441 - 8 Jun 1501)
Chancellor of Scotland
George Gordon, 2nd Earl of Huntly (died after 8 June 1501) was a Scottish nobleman and Chancellor of Scotland from 1498–1501.
From [http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Gordon,_George_(d.1502%3F)_(DNB00)_ Dictionary of National Biography]
GORDON, GEORGE, second Earl of Huntly (d. 1502?), lord high chancellor of Scotland, was the eldest son of Alexander de Seton, lord of Gordon, and first earl of Huntly, by his third wife, Elizabeth, eldest daughter of William, lord Crichton, lord high chancellor of Scotland.
The father, after receiving a grant of Strathbogie and other lands, and being in 1449 created Earl of Huntly, defeated the Earl of Crawford at Brechin, 18 May 1452. By his second marriage he had a son, Sir Alexander, ancestor of the Setons of Touch, but the succession to the earldom of Huntly was settled by charter on the issue of the third marriage, who took the surname of Gordon. George, the eldest son by this marriage, succeeded to the earldom and the bulk of the estates on the death of his father, 13 July 1470.
On 13 May 1491 he was appointed king's lieutenant north of the Esk, until the king should reach the age of twenty-five. In connection with a scheme for bringing the highland regions more directly under legal control, Huntly was appointed in 1492 with other commissioners to drive out ‘broken men’ from forfeited estates, and let them for five yeare to ‘true men.’ On 4 March 1498 he was appointed lord high chancellor (Reg. Mag. Sig. i. 2389). He was superseded in this office in 1501 by George, duke of Orkney.
Apparently on this account he is represented by the historian of the house of Gordon, who states that he was buried in the chancel of the abbey church of Cambuskenneth, as dying on 8 June 1501, but he was alive on 11 July 1502 (ib.2656), and died some time between that date and 30 Jan. 1502-3 (ib. 2689).
==Marriage & Children==
From [http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=46660107 Find A Grave Memorial# 46660107]
First married Elizabeth Dunbar, younger daughter and co-heiress to James Dunbar, Earl of Moray and widow of Archibald Douglas, Earl of Moray. They married by contract dated 20 May 1455 and had no issue.
Secondly, husband of Annabel of Scotland, daughter of King James I and Joan de Beaufort. They were married before 10 Mar 1460, the date of the grant. They were divorced before 12 May 1466. with the final divorce announcements occurring in 1471. They had one daughter:
# Isabel, wife of William Hay, Earl of Erroll
Sir George married a third time to Elizabeth Hay, daughter of Sir William Hay, Earl of Erroll and Constable of Scotland. They were married after 12 May 1466 by dispensation dated 25 June 1466,as they were related by 3rd and 3rd degrees, and four sons and six daughters:
# Sir Alexander, Earl of Huntly
# Adam, Earl of Sutherland
# William
# James
# Janet, wife of Alexander Lindsay, Master of Crawfurd
# Elizabeth, wife of William, Earl Marischal
# Margaret, wife of Patrick Hepburn, Earl of Bothwell
# Catherine
# Eleanor, wife of William Sinclair and David Hepburn
# Agnes, wife of Sir Gilbert Hay
Sir George had two illegitimate children:
# Alexander
# Agnes, wife of James Ogilvy.
==notes==
not sure what is the source of the wrong birth date of 1st January 1455 that appear on some online sources such as
* http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=46660107
* http://thepeerage.com/p10827.htm#i108267
Sources
# [http://books.google.com/books?id=8JcbV309c5UC&pg=RA2-PA581&lpg=RA2-PA581&dq=elizabeth+hay+countess+huntly&source=bl&ots=kupGNVHWa5&sig=cOKspCwv95rmbid8kFK0buGqxr0&hl=en&sa=X&ei=S3yJUqDVEM3oiwLi8IH4DA&ved=0CDEQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=elizabeth%20hay%20countess%20huntly&f=false Magna Carta Ancestry:] A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 2nd Edition, 2011. By Douglas Richardson. Page 581
# [https://archive.org/stream/scotspeeragefoun04pauluoft#page/528/mode/2up The Scots Peerage Vol IV] page 528
links
* http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=maclaren&id=I03699
* [http://home.gwi.net/ages/Main%20Body/Gordon%20History.html A History of the Clann Gordon]
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2ND EARL OF HUNTLY
Chancellor of Scotland
Huntly
Aberdeenshire
A livestock market town in Strathbogie, NW Aberdeenshire,
situated at the confluence of the River Bogie and the River
Deveron on the main road and rail route to Inverness.
Occupying a strategic position on a low-lying plain
surrounded by hills, it lies at the junction of ancient
routes linking Moray with Strathdon and Aberdeen. The town
developed around a defensive site that became the power
centre of the Catholic clan Gordon and was given burgh
status in 1545. From 1776 Huntly was extended by the
Duke of Gordon who laid it out in a regular grid pattern.
There are tourist and sporting facilities including an
18-hole golf course, a Community Centre, a library and
museum, a livestock market and walkways out of town to
Ba'hill, Battlehill and Clashmach Hill. St Margaret's
Catholic Church (1834) has fine Spanish decorative panels
and on the south bank of the River Deveron stand the remains
of Huntly Castle with its 12th-century Norman motte and
bailey, medieval L-plan tower house and defensive earthworks
dating from the Civil War. Destroyed by the Earl of Moray
in 1452, the castle was rebuilt in a new 'palace' style
that was not completed until 1602 when the George Gordon,
the 1st Marquis of Huntly (c.1563 - 1636) returned from
exile after supporting the Catholic rebellion against
James VI in 1594. It was subsequently abandoned in the
17th century when the Duke of Gordon moved to Fochabers.
Still Living.
Basic Life Information
George Gordon, 2nd Earl of Huntly was the son of Alexander Gordon, 1st Earl of Huntly and Elizabeth Crichton.
Marriages and Children
He married, firstly, Elizabeth Dunbar, daughter of James Dunbar, 4th Earl of Moray, on 20 May 1445. He and Elizabeth Dunbar were divorced after 1446.
He married, secondly, Annabella Stewart, daughter of James I Stewart, King of Scotland and Lady Joan Beaufort, before 10 March 1459/60.1 He and Annabella Stewart were divorced on 24 July 1471 on the grounds of consanguinity.1 Children of George Gordon, 2nd Earl of Huntly and Annabella Stewart were:
Lady Margaret Gordon
Hon. Adam Gordon, Lord of Aboyne+ d. bt 17 Mar 1537 - 1538
Alexander Gordon, 3rd Earl of Huntly+ d. bt 21 Jan 1523 - 1524
Lady Janet Gordon d. b Feb 1558/593
Lady Elizabeth Gordon
He married Lady Elizabeth Hay, daughter of Sir William Hay, 1st Earl of Erroll and Lady Beatrix Douglas, on 12 May 1476.
Death
He died on 8 June 1501 at Stirling, Stirlingshire, Scotland.
http://www.thepeerage.com/p10827.htm
ID: I11186
Name: George GORDON
Given Name: George
Surname: Gordon
NSFX: Of Huntly
Title: Of Huntly
Sex: M
Death: 8 Jun 1501
Change Date: 30 Dec 2002
Marriage 1 Annabella STEWART b: Abt 1440
Married:
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=== Biography ===
}:Sir George Gordon, 2nd Earl of Huntley, Lord of Gordon & Badenoch, Justiciary North of the Forth, Lt. North of the Esk, Lord High Chancellor was born circa 1441. A contract for the marriage of Sir George Gordon, 2nd Earl of Huntley, Lord of Gordon & Badenoch, Justiciary North of the Forth, Lt. North of the Esk, Lord High Chancellor and Elizabeth Dunbar was signed on 20 May 1455; No issue. Sir George Gordon, 2nd Earl of Huntley, Lord of Gordon & Badenoch, Justiciary North of the Forth, Lt. North of the Esk, Lord High Chancellor and Elizabeth Dunbar were divorced before March 1460; On grounds they were related in the 3rd & 4th degrees of consanguinity. Sir George Gordon, 2nd Earl of Huntley, Lord of Gordon & Badenoch, Justiciary North of the Forth, Lt. North of the Esk, Lord High Chancellor married Annabella Stewart, daughter of James I Stewart, King of Scotland and Joan Beaufort, before 10 March 1460; They had 1 daughter (Isabel, wife of William Hay, 3rd Earl of Erroll). Sir George Gordon, 2nd Earl of Huntley, Lord of Gordon & Badenoch, Justiciary North of the Forth, Lt. North of the Esk, Lord High Chancellor and Annabella Stewart were divorced before 12 May 1466; Final decree pronounced in 1471. Divorced on grounds that she was related to his former wife, Elizabeth Dunbar, in the 3rd and 4th degrees of consanguinity. Sir George Gordon, 2nd Earl of Huntley, Lord of Gordon & Badenoch, Justiciary North of the Forth, Lt. North of the Esk, Lord High Chancellor married Elizabeth Hay, daughter of Sir William Hay, 1st Earl of Erroll, 2nd Lord Hay, Constable of Scotland and Beatrix Douglas, after 12 May 1466; They had 4 sons (Alexander, 3rd Earl of Huntly; Adam, Earl of Sutherland; William, 1st Laird of Gight; & James) & 6 daughters (Janet, wife of Alexander Lindsay, Master of Crawford; Elizabeth, wife of William Keith, 3rd Earl Marischal; Margaret, wife of Patrick Hepburn, Earl of Bothwell; Katherine; Eleanor, wife of William Sinclair, & of David Hepburn; & Agnes, wife of Sir Gilbert Hay). He also had an illegitimate son (Alexander) and an illegitimate daughter (Janet, wife of James Ogilvy of Findlater). Sir George Gordon, 2nd Earl of Huntley, Lord of Gordon & Badenoch, Justiciary North of the Forth, Lt. North of the Esk, Lord High Chancellor and Elizabeth Hay obtained a marriage license on 25 June 1466; Date of Dispensation, they being related in the 3rd & 3rd degree of affinity. Sir George Gordon, 2nd Earl of Huntley, Lord of Gordon & Badenoch, Justiciary North of the Forth, Lt. North of the Esk, Lord High Chancellor died on 8 June 1501 at Stirling, Stirlingshire, Scotland; Buried at Cambuskenneth, Stirlingshire.
:George Gordon, 2nd Earl of Huntly was the son of Alexander Gordon, 1st Earl of Huntly and Elizabeth Crichton.Charles Mosley, editor, Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes (Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003), volume 3, page 3397.
:He married by contract, firstly, Lady Elizabeth Dunbar, recent widow of Archibald Douglas, Earl of Moray, daughter of James Dunbar, 4th Earl of Moray and Janet Seton, on 20 May 1445.Charles Mosley, Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 107th edition, volume 2, page 2011. He and Lady Elizabeth Dunbar were divorced between 1446 to 10 March 1459/60.
:He married, secondly, Annabella Stewart, daughter of James I Stewart, King of Scotland and Lady Joan Beaufort, before 10 March 1459/60.Alison Weir, Britain's Royal Families: The Complete Genealogy (London, U.K.: The Bodley Head, 1999), page 232. He and Annabella Stewart were divorced on 24 July 1471 on the grounds of consanguinity.
:He married, thirdly, Lady Elizabeth Hay, daughter of William Hay, 1st Earl of Erroll and Lady Beatrix Douglas, in August 1471.
:He was invested as a Privy Counsellor, Scotland in 1449/50.
:On 8 January 1449/50 his father made him heir by charter, to the exclusion of his elder half-brother, Alexander.3 He was invested as a Knight circa 1455.3 He succeeded to the title of 2nd Earl of Huntly on 15 July 1470.
:He was granted by the Crown the lands of Schivas, Aberdeenshire and Aboyne, Enzie and Netherdale, Banffshire.
:He held the office of Chancellor of Scotland between 1498 and 1501.
:He died on 8 June 1501 at Stirling, Stirlingshire, Scotland. Buried at Cambuskenneth, Stirlingshire.
=== Marriages ===
:Children of '''George Gordon, 2nd Earl of Huntly and Lady Elizabeth Hay'''
:Adam Gordon+ d. bt 17 Mar 1537 - 1538
:Alexander Gordon, 3rd Earl of Huntly+ d. 21 Jan 1523/24
:Lady Catherine GordonSir James Balfour Paul, The Scots Peerage: founded on Wood's edition of Sir Robert Douglas's The Peerage of Scotland (Edinburgh, Scotland: David Douglas, 1904), volume IV, page 531. d. Oct 1537
:William Gordon d. 9 Sep 1513
:James Gordon
:Lady Agnes Gordon+
:Lady Eleanor Gordon
:Children of '''George Gordon, 2nd Earl of Huntly and Annabella Stewart'''
:Lady Margaret Gordon+G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume II, page 238.
:Lady Janet GordonCokayne, and others, The Complete Peerage, volume III, page 513. d. b Feb 1558/59
:Lady Elizabeth Gordon+Charles Mosley, Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 107th edition, volume 2, page 2195.
:Lady Isabella Gordon+ d. b 1485
:Differing sources attribute children to different wives. For example, RichardsonDouglas Richardson, "Royal Ancestry", 2013, Vol. 1, pp. 240-241 attributes no children to Elizabeth Dunbar, only Isabel to Annabelle Stewart, Alexander, Adam, William, James, Janet, Elizabeth, Margaret, Katherine, and Agnes to Elizabeth Hay, and attributes two additional children Alexander and Agnes (different from the above) to unknown mistresses.
:It is extremely unlikely that definitive primary sources will be found that eliminate this uncertainty in parentage of his children.
=== Disputed Facts ===
:These facts are left in from a previous merge and need sources before being added to the narrative above.
: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.[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Gordon,_2nd_Earl_of_Huntly Wilipedia profile, George Gordon, 2nd Earl of Huntly] George was almost certainly born shortly before this time, c. 1441 as his parents married bef. 18 March 1439–40.
:In his contract with Elizabeth Dunbar, Countess of Moray, dated 20 May 1455 he is styled the Master of Huntley. 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. As George, Lord Gordon, he was keeper of the castles of Kildrummy, Kindrochat and Inverness. He succeeded his father as Earl of Huntly c. 15 July 1470.
: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. 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.
:In 1479 he was justiciary north of the River Forth, one of his primary duties was the suppression of feuds between Highland clans. 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. George was Chancellor until 1500. George, the second earl died at Stirling Castle on 8 June 1501[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Gordon, 2nd_Earl_of_Huntly Wilipedia profile, George Gordon, 2nd Earl of Huntly]
===YDNA Results===
:George Gordon, 2nd Earl of Huntly is projected to be a member of Haplogroup I-M253 [https://www.familytreedna.com/public/gordondna/default.aspx?section=yresults Gordon YDNA Results FTDNA]
== Sources ==
:See Also:
* Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. I, p. 96-97.
* Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. III, p. 581.
* Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. I, p. 659.
* Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. I, p. 95-96.
* Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. I, p. 239-240.
* Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. I, p. 240.
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Gordon,_2nd_Earl_of_Huntly George Gordon, 2nd Earl of Huntly]
*The Scots Peerage Vol. IV, [https://archive.org/stream/scotspeeragefoun04pauluoft#page/526/mode/2up/search/huntly p.526ff].
* [http://www.kittybrewster.com/ancestry/gordon.htm Gordon Ancestry]
* http://www.stirnet.com/genie/data/british/gg/gordon02.php
* Cahiers de Saint Louis. Dupont, Jacques & Saillot, Jacques. The Lineage & Ancestry of HRH Charles Prince of Wales. Edinburgh 1977, Paget, Gerald. Burke's Genealogical & Heraldic History of the Peerage, Baronetage, & Knightage. London, 1938. The Complete Peerage, 1936, Doubleday.
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George Gordon, 2nd Earl of Huntly (died after 8 June 1501) was a Scottish nobleman and Chancellor of Scotland from 1498–1501.
From [http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Gordon,_George_(d.1502%3F)_(DNB00)_ Dictionary of National Biography]
GORDON, GEORGE, second Earl of Huntly (d. 1502?), lord high chancellor of Scotland, was the eldest son of Alexander de Seton, lord of Gordon, and first earl of Huntly, by his third wife, Elizabeth, eldest daughter of William, lord Crichton, lord high chancellor of Scotland.
The father, after receiving a grant of Strathbogie and other lands, and being in 1449 created Earl of Huntly, defeated the Earl of Crawford at Brechin, 18 May 1452. By his second marriage he had a son, Sir Alexander, ancestor of the Setons of Touch, but the succession to the earldom of Huntly was settled by charter on the issue of the third marriage, who took the surname of Gordon. George, the eldest son by this marriage, succeeded to the earldom and the bulk of the estates on the death of his father, 13 July 1470.
On 13 May 1491 he was appointed king's lieutenant north of the Esk, until the king should reach the age of twenty-five. In connection with a scheme for bringing the highland regions more directly under legal control, Huntly was appointed in 1492 with other commissioners to drive out ‘broken men’ from forfeited estates, and let them for five yeare to ‘true men.’ On 4 March 1498 he was appointed lord high chancellor (Reg. Mag. Sig. i. 2389). He was superseded in this office in 1501 by George, duke of Orkney.
Apparently on this account he is represented by the historian of the house of Gordon, who states that he was buried in the chancel of the abbey church of Cambuskenneth, as dying on 8 June 1501, but he was alive on 11 July 1502 (ib.2656), and died some time between that date and 30 Jan. 1502-3 (ib. 2689).
==Marriage & Children==
From [http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=46660107 Find A Grave Memorial# 46660107]
First married Elizabeth Dunbar, younger daughter and co-heiress to James Dunbar, Earl of Moray and widow of Archibald Douglas, Earl of Moray. They married by contract dated 20 May 1455 and had no issue.
Secondly, husband of Annabel of Scotland, daughter of King James I and Joan de Beaufort. They were married before 10 Mar 1460, the date of the grant. They were divorced before 12 May 1466. with the final divorce announcements occurring in 1471. They had one daughter:
# Isabel, wife of William Hay, Earl of Erroll
Sir George married a third time to Elizabeth Hay, daughter of Sir William Hay, Earl of Erroll and Constable of Scotland. They were married after 12 May 1466 by dispensation dated 25 June 1466,as they were related by 3rd and 3rd degrees, and four sons and six daughters:
# Sir Alexander, Earl of Huntly
# Adam, Earl of Sutherland
# William
# James
# Janet, wife of Alexander Lindsay, Master of Crawfurd
# Elizabeth, wife of William, Earl Marischal
# Margaret, wife of Patrick Hepburn, Earl of Bothwell
# Catherine
# Eleanor, wife of William Sinclair and David Hepburn
# Agnes, wife of Sir Gilbert Hay
Sir George had two illegitimate children:
# Alexander
# Agnes, wife of James Ogilvy.
==notes==
not sure what is the source of the wrong birth date of 1st January 1455 that appear on some online sources such as
* http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=46660107
* http://thepeerage.com/p10827.htm#i108267
Sources
# [http://books.google.com/books?id=8JcbV309c5UC&pg=RA2-PA581&lpg=RA2-PA581&dq=elizabeth+hay+countess+huntly&source=bl&ots=kupGNVHWa5&sig=cOKspCwv95rmbid8kFK0buGqxr0&hl=en&sa=X&ei=S3yJUqDVEM3oiwLi8IH4DA&ved=0CDEQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=elizabeth%20hay%20countess%20huntly&f=false Magna Carta Ancestry:] A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 2nd Edition, 2011. By Douglas Richardson. Page 581
# [https://archive.org/stream/scotspeeragefoun04pauluoft#page/528/mode/2up The Scots Peerage Vol IV] page 528
links
* http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=maclaren&id=I03699
* [http://home.gwi.net/ages/Main%20Body/Gordon%20History.html A History of the Clann Gordon]
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2ND EARL OF HUNTLY
Chancellor of Scotland
Huntly
Aberdeenshire
A livestock market town in Strathbogie, NW Aberdeenshire,
situated at the confluence of the River Bogie and the River
Deveron on the main road and rail route to Inverness.
Occupying a strategic position on a low-lying plain
surrounded by hills, it lies at the junction of ancient
routes linking Moray with Strathdon and Aberdeen. The town
developed around a defensive site that became the power
centre of the Catholic clan Gordon and was given burgh
status in 1545. From 1776 Huntly was extended by the
Duke of Gordon who laid it out in a regular grid pattern.
There are tourist and sporting facilities including an
18-hole golf course, a Community Centre, a library and
museum, a livestock market and walkways out of town to
Ba'hill, Battlehill and Clashmach Hill. St Margaret's
Catholic Church (1834) has fine Spanish decorative panels
and on the south bank of the River Deveron stand the remains
of Huntly Castle with its 12th-century Norman motte and
bailey, medieval L-plan tower house and defensive earthworks
dating from the Civil War. Destroyed by the Earl of Moray
in 1452, the castle was rebuilt in a new 'palace' style
that was not completed until 1602 when the George Gordon,
the 1st Marquis of Huntly (c.1563 - 1636) returned from
exile after supporting the Catholic rebellion against
James VI in 1594. It was subsequently abandoned in the
17th century when the Duke of Gordon moved to Fochabers.
Still Living.
Basic Life Information
George Gordon, 2nd Earl of Huntly was the son of Alexander Gordon, 1st Earl of Huntly and Elizabeth Crichton.
Marriages and Children
He married, firstly, Elizabeth Dunbar, daughter of James Dunbar, 4th Earl of Moray, on 20 May 1445. He and Elizabeth Dunbar were divorced after 1446.
He married, secondly, Annabella Stewart, daughter of James I Stewart, King of Scotland and Lady Joan Beaufort, before 10 March 1459/60.1 He and Annabella Stewart were divorced on 24 July 1471 on the grounds of consanguinity.1 Children of George Gordon, 2nd Earl of Huntly and Annabella Stewart were:
Lady Margaret Gordon
Hon. Adam Gordon, Lord of Aboyne+ d. bt 17 Mar 1537 - 1538
Alexander Gordon, 3rd Earl of Huntly+ d. bt 21 Jan 1523 - 1524
Lady Janet Gordon d. b Feb 1558/593
Lady Elizabeth Gordon
He married Lady Elizabeth Hay, daughter of Sir William Hay, 1st Earl of Erroll and Lady Beatrix Douglas, on 12 May 1476.
Death
He died on 8 June 1501 at Stirling, Stirlingshire, Scotland.
http://www.thepeerage.com/p10827.htm
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Name: George GORDON
Given Name: George
Surname: Gordon
NSFX: Of Huntly
Title: Of Huntly
Sex: M
Death: 8 Jun 1501
Change Date: 30 Dec 2002
Marriage 1 Annabella STEWART b: Abt 1440
Married:
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=== Biography ===
}:Sir George Gordon, 2nd Earl of Huntley, Lord of Gordon & Badenoch, Justiciary North of the Forth, Lt. North of the Esk, Lord High Chancellor was born circa 1441. A contract for the marriage of Sir George Gordon, 2nd Earl of Huntley, Lord of Gordon & Badenoch, Justiciary North of the Forth, Lt. North of the Esk, Lord High Chancellor and Elizabeth Dunbar was signed on 20 May 1455; No issue. Sir George Gordon, 2nd Earl of Huntley, Lord of Gordon & Badenoch, Justiciary North of the Forth, Lt. North of the Esk, Lord High Chancellor and Elizabeth Dunbar were divorced before March 1460; On grounds they were related in the 3rd & 4th degrees of consanguinity. Sir George Gordon, 2nd Earl of Huntley, Lord of Gordon & Badenoch, Justiciary North of the Forth, Lt. North of the Esk, Lord High Chancellor married Annabella Stewart, daughter of James I Stewart, King of Scotland and Joan Beaufort, before 10 March 1460; They had 1 daughter (Isabel, wife of William Hay, 3rd Earl of Erroll). Sir George Gordon, 2nd Earl of Huntley, Lord of Gordon & Badenoch, Justiciary North of the Forth, Lt. North of the Esk, Lord High Chancellor and Annabella Stewart were divorced before 12 May 1466; Final decree pronounced in 1471. Divorced on grounds that she was related to his former wife, Elizabeth Dunbar, in the 3rd and 4th degrees of consanguinity. Sir George Gordon, 2nd Earl of Huntley, Lord of Gordon & Badenoch, Justiciary North of the Forth, Lt. North of the Esk, Lord High Chancellor married Elizabeth Hay, daughter of Sir William Hay, 1st Earl of Erroll, 2nd Lord Hay, Constable of Scotland and Beatrix Douglas, after 12 May 1466; They had 4 sons (Alexander, 3rd Earl of Huntly; Adam, Earl of Sutherland; William, 1st Laird of Gight; & James) & 6 daughters (Janet, wife of Alexander Lindsay, Master of Crawford; Elizabeth, wife of William Keith, 3rd Earl Marischal; Margaret, wife of Patrick Hepburn, Earl of Bothwell; Katherine; Eleanor, wife of William Sinclair, & of David Hepburn; & Agnes, wife of Sir Gilbert Hay). He also had an illegitimate son (Alexander) and an illegitimate daughter (Janet, wife of James Ogilvy of Findlater). Sir George Gordon, 2nd Earl of Huntley, Lord of Gordon & Badenoch, Justiciary North of the Forth, Lt. North of the Esk, Lord High Chancellor and Elizabeth Hay obtained a marriage license on 25 June 1466; Date of Dispensation, they being related in the 3rd & 3rd degree of affinity. Sir George Gordon, 2nd Earl of Huntley, Lord of Gordon & Badenoch, Justiciary North of the Forth, Lt. North of the Esk, Lord High Chancellor died on 8 June 1501 at Stirling, Stirlingshire, Scotland; Buried at Cambuskenneth, Stirlingshire.
:George Gordon, 2nd Earl of Huntly was the son of Alexander Gordon, 1st Earl of Huntly and Elizabeth Crichton.Charles Mosley, editor, Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes (Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003), volume 3, page 3397.
:He married by contract, firstly, Lady Elizabeth Dunbar, recent widow of Archibald Douglas, Earl of Moray, daughter of James Dunbar, 4th Earl of Moray and Janet Seton, on 20 May 1445.Charles Mosley, Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 107th edition, volume 2, page 2011. He and Lady Elizabeth Dunbar were divorced between 1446 to 10 March 1459/60.
:He married, secondly, Annabella Stewart, daughter of James I Stewart, King of Scotland and Lady Joan Beaufort, before 10 March 1459/60.Alison Weir, Britain's Royal Families: The Complete Genealogy (London, U.K.: The Bodley Head, 1999), page 232. He and Annabella Stewart were divorced on 24 July 1471 on the grounds of consanguinity.
:He married, thirdly, Lady Elizabeth Hay, daughter of William Hay, 1st Earl of Erroll and Lady Beatrix Douglas, in August 1471.
:He was invested as a Privy Counsellor, Scotland in 1449/50.
:On 8 January 1449/50 his father made him heir by charter, to the exclusion of his elder half-brother, Alexander.3 He was invested as a Knight circa 1455.3 He succeeded to the title of 2nd Earl of Huntly on 15 July 1470.
:He was granted by the Crown the lands of Schivas, Aberdeenshire and Aboyne, Enzie and Netherdale, Banffshire.
:He held the office of Chancellor of Scotland between 1498 and 1501.
:He died on 8 June 1501 at Stirling, Stirlingshire, Scotland. Buried at Cambuskenneth, Stirlingshire.
=== Marriages ===
:Children of '''George Gordon, 2nd Earl of Huntly and Lady Elizabeth Hay'''
:Adam Gordon+ d. bt 17 Mar 1537 - 1538
:Alexander Gordon, 3rd Earl of Huntly+ d. 21 Jan 1523/24
:Lady Catherine GordonSir James Balfour Paul, The Scots Peerage: founded on Wood's edition of Sir Robert Douglas's The Peerage of Scotland (Edinburgh, Scotland: David Douglas, 1904), volume IV, page 531. d. Oct 1537
:William Gordon d. 9 Sep 1513
:James Gordon
:Lady Agnes Gordon+
:Lady Eleanor Gordon
:Children of '''George Gordon, 2nd Earl of Huntly and Annabella Stewart'''
:Lady Margaret Gordon+G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume II, page 238.
:Lady Janet GordonCokayne, and others, The Complete Peerage, volume III, page 513. d. b Feb 1558/59
:Lady Elizabeth Gordon+Charles Mosley, Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 107th edition, volume 2, page 2195.
:Lady Isabella Gordon+ d. b 1485
:Differing sources attribute children to different wives. For example, RichardsonDouglas Richardson, "Royal Ancestry", 2013, Vol. 1, pp. 240-241 attributes no children to Elizabeth Dunbar, only Isabel to Annabelle Stewart, Alexander, Adam, William, James, Janet, Elizabeth, Margaret, Katherine, and Agnes to Elizabeth Hay, and attributes two additional children Alexander and Agnes (different from the above) to unknown mistresses.
:It is extremely unlikely that definitive primary sources will be found that eliminate this uncertainty in parentage of his children.
=== Disputed Facts ===
:These facts are left in from a previous merge and need sources before being added to the narrative above.
: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.[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Gordon,_2nd_Earl_of_Huntly Wilipedia profile, George Gordon, 2nd Earl of Huntly] George was almost certainly born shortly before this time, c. 1441 as his parents married bef. 18 March 1439–40.
:In his contract with Elizabeth Dunbar, Countess of Moray, dated 20 May 1455 he is styled the Master of Huntley. 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. As George, Lord Gordon, he was keeper of the castles of Kildrummy, Kindrochat and Inverness. He succeeded his father as Earl of Huntly c. 15 July 1470.
: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. 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.
:In 1479 he was justiciary north of the River Forth, one of his primary duties was the suppression of feuds between Highland clans. 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. George was Chancellor until 1500. George, the second earl died at Stirling Castle on 8 June 1501[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Gordon, 2nd_Earl_of_Huntly Wilipedia profile, George Gordon, 2nd Earl of Huntly]
===YDNA Results===
:George Gordon, 2nd Earl of Huntly is projected to be a member of Haplogroup I-M253 [https://www.familytreedna.com/public/gordondna/default.aspx?section=yresults Gordon YDNA Results FTDNA]
== Sources ==
:See Also:
* Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. I, p. 96-97.
* Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. III, p. 581.
* Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. I, p. 659.
* Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. I, p. 95-96.
* Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. I, p. 239-240.
* Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. I, p. 240.
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Gordon,_2nd_Earl_of_Huntly George Gordon, 2nd Earl of Huntly]
*The Scots Peerage Vol. IV, [https://archive.org/stream/scotspeeragefoun04pauluoft#page/526/mode/2up/search/huntly p.526ff].
* [http://www.kittybrewster.com/ancestry/gordon.htm Gordon Ancestry]
* http://www.stirnet.com/genie/data/british/gg/gordon02.php
* Cahiers de Saint Louis. Dupont, Jacques & Saillot, Jacques. The Lineage & Ancestry of HRH Charles Prince of Wales. Edinburgh 1977, Paget, Gerald. Burke's Genealogical & Heraldic History of the Peerage, Baronetage, & Knightage. London, 1938. The Complete Peerage, 1936, Doubleday.
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Events
| Birth | Bef 1441 | Huntly Castle, Huntly, Aberdeenshire, Scotland | |||
| Birth | Abt 1441 | Huntly, , Aberdeenshire, Scotland | |||
| Marriage | 20 May 1455 | Elizabeth "Countess of Moray" Dunbar | |||
| Marriage | Mar 1459 | Annabella "Princess of Scotland" Stewart | |||
| Marriage | Bef 10 Mar 1460 | Annabella "Princess of Scotland" Stewart | |||
| Divorce | 24 Jul 1471 | Annabella "Princess of Scotland" Stewart | |||
| Marriage | 18 Aug 1471 | Lady Elizabeth Hay | |||
| Death | 8 Jun 1501 | Stirling, Stirlingshire, Scotland | |||
| Death | Bet 11 Jul 1502 and 30 Jan 1503 | ||||
| Burial | 1503 | chancel of the abbey church of | |||
| Alt name | Sir George "2nd Earl of Huntly" Gordon | ||||
| Reference No | 1725207 | ||||
| Reference No | 1751713 | ||||
| Reference No | 60 |
Families
| Spouse | Annabella "Princess of Scotland" Stewart (1432 - 1509) |
| Child | Alexander "3rd Earl of Huntly" Gordon (1464 - 1524) |
| Child | Elizabeth "Beatrice" Gordon (1495 - 1525) |
| Child | William Gordon (1455 - 1513) |
| Child | Adam Gordon (1465 - 1538) |
| Child | Janet Gordon (1501 - 1559) |
| Spouse | Lady Elizabeth Hay (1450 - 1509) |
| Child | Alexander "3rd Earl of Huntly" Gordon (1464 - 1524) |
| Child | Lady Catherine "White Rose of Scotland" Gordon (1472 - 1537) |
| Child | Agnes Gordon (1472 - 1525) |
| Child | Hon. John Gordon (1477 - 1517) |
| Child | Adm. Sir James Gordon (1490 - 1580) |
| Spouse | Annabella "Princess of Scotland" Stewart (1435 - 1509) |
| Child | Janet Gordon (1462 - 1558) |
| Child | Elizabeth Gordon (1462 - 1525) |
| Child | Isabella Gordon (1464 - 1485) |
| Child | Elizabeth Gordon (1467 - ) |
| Child | Margaret "Countess of Bothwell" Gordon (1470 - ) |
| Child | Mary Gordon (1478 - ) |
| Spouse | Elizabeth "Countess of Moray" Dunbar (1425 - 1486) |
| Father | Alexander "Alexander [Seton later Gordon]" Gordon (1410 - 1470) |
| Mother | Elizabeth Crichton countess of Huntly (1410 - 1479) |
| Sibling | Margaret Gordon (1452 - 1506) |
| Sibling | Elizabeth "Lady Elizabeth Gordon" Gordon (1451 - 1500) |
| Sibling | Alexander "of Abergeldie" Gordon (1443 - 1504) |
| Father | Sir Alexander "1st Earl of Huntly" Seton (1410 - 1470) |
| Mother | Lady Elizabeth "Countess Huntly" Crichton (1410 - 1479) |
| Sibling | Elizabeth Gordon ( - 1500) |
| Sibling | Christian Gordon (1443 - 1500) |
| Sibling | Alexander "of Abergeldie" Gordon (1443 - 1504) |
| Sibling | Adam Gordon (1450 - 1528) |