Genealogy of the most noble and ancient House of Drummond

224 THE GENEALOGIE OF
Off Lady Anna Gordon, Spouse to James third Earle of
Perth, Daughter to George Marques of Huntly, and of
her Fathers Family.
The Marques of Huntly is the cheefe of the Gordons ; his family
is thought to have had its beginning out of France from one Duke
800. de Gordon, Conftable to Charlemaine about the year 800 ; whofe
fucceflbrs ftill pofeffes the caftle of Gordon in France, under the title
1199. of Viconts thereof. There wes one, about the year 1199, Bertrand
de Gordon, a Gafcogne, that killed King Richard the Firft of England
at the feige of Cadialliar in Limofin, of the fame family. It feems
lbme of thefe Gordons have come alfo to England, for about the year
1265. 1265 there was one Adam Gordon governour of the caftle of Mun-
chered, in England, who defeated the Welfhmen in Somerfetfhyre
when King Henrie the Third reigned. He alfo fought a combat,
hand to hand, with Edward Prince of Wales, upon the head of the
1267. tuo armies, in the year 1267. The Marques of Huntly reckons his
prediceffor to have come to Scotland in the time of King Malcolm
the Third, and to have gotten from that King the lands of Huntly ;
and that one of the fucceflbrs married the heretrix of Straboggy, and
that both thefe lands continowed with the pofterity in a lineal defcent
1370. of heires male untill the year 1370 ; about which time Sir John
Gordon of Huntly and Straboggie dyed without aires male, leaving
his eftate to Elifabeth Gordon, his only daughter, who wes married
to Sir Alexander Seatone, a younger fone to Sir Alexander Seatone,
that renowned governour of Berwick-upon-Tueed, whom King
Edward Third of England dealt fo unworthyly with, contrary to the
laws of warr and of all Chriftian nations. Upon this marriage Sir
Alexander Seaton changed his name and armes for the name and