Alexander Gordon (-), Master of Sutherland

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Parents
Father:1Adam Gordon (-17 March 1537-38), Earl of Sutherland
Mother:2Elizabeth Sutherland (-September 1535), Countess of Sutherland
Spouses and relationship events
Married:3around 16 June 1520Janet Stewart of Atholl (-)
Children
Children with Janet Stewart of Atholl:
Beatrix Gordon (-)4
Alexander Gordon (-1552)5
William Gordon (-)6
Janet Gordon (-)7
John Gordon (1525-23 June 1567), 10. Earl of Sutherland8
Attributes
Occupation:9Master of Sutherland
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Personal Info
He appears as Master of Sutherland in a writ by his father, dated 31 August 1515, and was probably born about 1501. In 1522 John Mackay of Strathnaver renewed to the Master his bond of service given to Earl Adam. In March 1525 the Master went to Edinburgh to represent his parents in the settlement of their dispute with the Earl of Caithness, and in November 1527 the Earl and Countess resigned the earldom in his favour under certain conditions. Prom this time he took the place of his parents. On 4 March 1527-28 he and his wife had a Crown charter of the lands of Navidale, in the parish of Kildonan, and of Garty, Lothmore, and others, in the parish of Loth. One of the Master's charters in April 1529 has the first reference to coal in Sutherland, but it was apparently not then mined, and the first pit was sunk in 1598. The later incidents of his career are few, and chiefly relate to charters granted by him. Sir Robert Gordon credits him with much bravery and great success in clan conflicts with the Mackays, but these are not borne out by actual record. He resided much at Dunrobin, and died there, it is said, on 15 January 1529-30.10
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1 Sir James Balfour Paul, Lord Lyon King of Arms, The Scots Peerage Founded on Wood's Edition of Sir Robert Douglas's Peerage of Scotland Containing an Historical and Genealogical Account of the Nobility of that Kingdom, Volume VIII: (Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1911), Sutherland, p. 336-38, Elizabeth.
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3 Sir James Balfour Paul, Lord Lyon King of Arms, The Scots Peerage Founded on Wood's Edition of Sir Robert Douglas's Peerage of Scotland Containing an Historical and Genealogical Account of the Nobility of that Kingdom, Volume VIII: (Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1911), Sutherland, p. 338-39, XI Alexander Gordon.
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