Individual Details

== Biography ==
}John was born in 1340. John was the child of [[Gordon-2930|Adam Gordon]] and [[Cruickshanks-25|Elizabeth Cruickshanks]]. John passed away in 1394.

-----Sir John Gordon, who succeeded, had from King Robert II on 16 June 1376 a renewed confirmation of the charter of Strathbogie granted by King Robert Bruce to his great-grandfather, Sir Adam.
This appears to be the earliest notice of him after his father’s death, and in the writ he is designed simply ‘John Gordon,’ not having attained knighthood. He may have been a minor for some years after his succession.
In the next year, 1377, he took an active part in fighting against the English, who in retaliation for the Earl of March’s attack on Roxburgh, raided Gordon’s lands and goods. He also defeated at Carham a superior English force under Sir John Lilburn. In this conflict he was severely wounded, but recovered. He also took part in the combat at Melrose under the leadership of Sir Archibald Douglas, when Sir Thomas Musgrave, Warden of Berwick was made prisoner.
He is also said to have been present at the battle of Otterburn on 5 August 1388, but he was not killed there, as he was a witness to a charter by Andrew Leslie of that Ilk, of date 30 May 1391, before which date he had been made a knight, and is also styled “Laird of tht Ilk.���
He died between that date and 11October 1394, when the relief duty of his lands of Strathbogie, amounting to 700 merks, was bestowed upon Sir Malcolm Drummond.
Sir John was not legally married, so far as known, but there is clear evidence that he had two sons - whose mother is said to have been Elizabeth Cruickshanks, daughter of the Laird of Aswanley - the ‘Jock’ and “Tam’ Gordon of popular fame, styled natural sons, but probably the offspring of a handfasting union, who in the Highlands were not accounted illegitiate, though not recognised by the law or the Church.

1. John, styled of Essie or Scurdarge ...
2. Thomas, named with his brother John in the charter ...
Source: THE SCOTS PEERAGE, ed. by Sir James Balfour Paul, Vol IV, Edinburgh, 1906, p. 514-16 [http://www.venitap.com/Genealogy/WebCards/ps31/ps31_458.htm]

== Sources ==
* John Malcolm Bulloch, MA, ed., The House of Gordon, Vol. I, New Spalding Club, Aberdeen, 1903 - https://ia601401.us.archive.org/21/items/houseofgordon01bulluoft/houseofgordon01bulluoft.pdf , Skeleton Table of the House of Gordon, page IX


* http://www.thepeerage.com/p12083.htm#i120828

* http://www.stirnet.com/genie/data/british/gg/gordon01.php

* http://www.venitap.com/Genealogy/WebCards/ps31/ps31_458.htm

Birth	1340
Death	1394
Reference No		11222091
Reference No		11908928
Reference No		60

Father	Sir John Gordon (1315 - 1388)
Mother	Elizabeth Cruickshanks (1330 - )
Sibling	Sir Adam "Lord of Gordon" Gordon (1356 - 1402)
Sibling	Elizabeth Gordon (1345 - 1438)
Sibling	Thomas Gordon (1375 - 1425)