The Master of Forbes was tried and executed, but within days his sentence was revoked and the Clan Forbes family restored to favour. In 1536 Chief of Gordons, the Earl of Huntly accused the Master of Forbes of conspiring to assassinate King James V of Scotland while visiting Aberdeen by shooting at him with a cannon. In 1526 the title of Earl of Sutherland and chieftainship of the Clan Sutherland passed by right of marriage to Adam Gordon who was a younger son of the chief of Clan Gordon. In 1522 Alexander Gordon (the Countess of Sutherland’s eldest son) overthrew John Mackay of Strathnaver at Lairg, and forced him to submit himself to the Countess’s husband, Adam Gordon "unto whom John Mackay gave his band of manrent and service". The Earl of Huntly soon became involved in a plot aimed at the Master of Forbes (son of John, the 6th Lord Forbes), who was implicated in the Seton murder. One of the most prominent of those killed by the Forbes action was Seton of Meldrum who was a close connection of the chief of the Gordons, the Earl of Huntly. The feud reached a climax in the 1520s with murders committed by both sides occurring constantly. The Gordons fought at the Battle of the Western Isles in 1505.įeud with Clan Forbes During the 15th and 16th centuries the Clan was engaged in a long running feud against Clan Forbes. Richard was Lord of the Barony of Gordon in the Merse (Richard de Gordon). Richard of Gordon, previously of Swinton, allegedly the grandson of a famous knight who slew a monstrous animal in the Merse during the time of King Malcolm III of Scotland. The heraldic claims the origin to be a Norman knight who gored down a hideous boar, and thence derived, by royal command, both the name and the boars heads as the armorial insignia of himself and successors. and obtained the lands of Gordon in Berwickshire, where he settled with his followers." Chalmers bases this claim on the discovery of the first charter in which in which he found the name mentioned. soon after the commencement of the twelth century, and obtained the lands of Gordon in Berwickshire. "The progenitor of the Gordons came from England. They settled in Berwickshire in the 12th Century.Īnother theory is that the name comes from the district where they settled, which incorporated a fortified hill, gor-dun, which is Celtic for 'great hill fort'. There is a Manor called Gourdon in Normandy which is believed to be where the first settlers came from. They settled in the South of Scotland in the 12th Century. It is widely believed that it was originally from Normandy, where their ancestors are said to have had large possessions.
There are various theories regarding the origins of this clan. Granville Charles Gordon The 13th Marquess of HuntlyĪbove - Gordon from R R McIan's THE CLANS of the Scottish Highlands
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