Alexander Gordon, Master of Sutherland (c.1505-1530), Scottish magnate, made Earl of Sutherland in 1527. Alexander Gordon was the son of Adam Gordon of...
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son is Alexander Gordon, Master of Sutherland, whose descendants were several of the next earls of Sutherland, who all used the surname Gordon. The title...
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10th Countess of Sutherland married Adam Gordon, younger son of Gordon of Huntly. Their son was Alexander Gordon, Master of Sutherland who would become...
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Janet Stewart, Lady Ruthven (category House of Stuart)
Elizabeth Stewart. Janet Stewart married (1) Alexander Gordon, Master of Sutherland (died 1529), (2) Hugh Kennedy of Girvanmains (divorced), (3) in 1544, Henry...
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Precentor of Moray and Bishop-elect of Aberdeen Alexander Gordon, 3rd Earl of Huntly (died 1524), Scottish nobleman Alexander Gordon, Master of Sutherland (died...
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John Gordon was the son of Alexander Gordon, Master of Sutherland and Lady Janet Stewart. His father Alexander was the son of Lady Elizabeth Sutherland, 10th...
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Alexander Gordon, 12th Earl of Sutherland (died 1594) was a Scottish landowner. He was the son of John Gordon, 11th Earl of Sutherland and his second wife...
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Earl of Sutherland, and in her right became Countess of Sutherland after her brother's death. Their son was Alexander Gordon, Master of Sutherland. William...
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Alexander Gordon, Master of Sutherland. William Gordon, married Janet Ogilvy and was the ancestor of the Gordons of Gight. James Gordon, mentioned in an...
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Stewart, 3rd Earl of Atholl (1507–1542). Lady Janet Stewart married (1st) Alexander Gordon, Master of Sutherland; (2nd) Hugh Kennedy of Girvanmains; (3rd)...
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Sutherland, 6th of Duffus, as the new Laird of Skelbo having entered into a fresh acquisition of territory gave a bond of manrent to Alexander Gordon...
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Robert Gordon, 1st Baronet, who himself was a younger son of Alexander Gordon, 12th Earl of Sutherland, Elizabeth Sutherland and Adam Gordon married...
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from the line of Sutherland to that of the Gordons. One of John Mackay, 11th of Strathnaver's sisters was married to Alexander Sutherland. According to 17th-century...
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by an Act of Parliament for treason. Jean married secondly at Huntly Castle, on 13 December 1573, Alexander Gordon, 12th Earl of Sutherland, thus becoming...
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Duke of Sutherland is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom which was created by William IV in 1833 for George Leveson-Gower, 2nd Marquess of Stafford...
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great-grandfather William Sutherland, 6th of Duffus had entered into with Alexander Gordon, Master of Sutherland, a writ that related to the barony of Skelbo, which...
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Sutherland, 10th Countess of Sutherland. Her son with Adam Gordon was Alexander Gordon who succeeded as Master of Sutherland, but not without resistance...
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John Sutherland, 7th Earl of Sutherland and Margaret, daughter or sister of Sir William Ballie of Lamington. His elder brother, Alexander, Master of Sutherland...
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the son of Robert Sutherland, 6th Earl of Sutherland and Margaret Stewart, daughter of Alexander Stewart, Earl of Buchan (the Wolf of Badenoch). According...
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title of Earl of Sutherland and chiefship of the Clan Sutherland passed by right of marriage to Adam Gordon who was a younger son of George Gordon, 2nd...
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John Gordon, 13th Earl of Sutherland (1576–1615) was a Scottish landowner and courtier. He was the son of Alexander Gordon, 12th Earl of Sutherland and...
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her husband Adam Gordon. According to Sir Robert Gordon, in 1522 Alexander Gordon, the Master of Sutherland overthrew John Mackay of Strathnaver at Lairg...
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Clan Mackay (section Origins of the clan)
historian Sir Robert Gordon, who was a younger son of Alexander Gordon, 12th Earl of Sutherland, the Clan Sutherland joined the side of the Clan Mackay at...
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Stewart, a daughter of John Stewart, 2nd Earl of Atholl and Janet Campbell. She was first married to Alexander Gordon, Master of Sutherland, and known as the...
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Clan Gordon. Elizabeth and Adam Gordon’s son, Alexander Gordon, Master of Sutherland, would become the legal heir to the Earldom of Sutherland, however...
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Alexander Sutherland (died 1674) was the 1st Lord Duffus, a member of the Scottish nobility and a cadet of the Clan Sutherland. He was the eldest son of...
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in 1586, George Gordon, Marquess of Huntly came north to Sutherland, the lands of his cousin, Alexander Gordon, 12th Earl of Sutherland. He sent a message...
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Stewart Ross Sutherland, Baron Sutherland of Houndwood, KT, FRSE, FBA, FKC (25 February 1941 – 29 January 2018) was a Scottish academic, public servant...
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of Hugh Munro, 7th laird of Novar, in Ross, Scotland. His family also had a home at Clayside in Golspie, Sutherland, which was then a collection of cottages...
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Hugh Fraser, 7th Lord Lovat (category Lords of Parliament (pre-1707))
married John Gordon, 14th Earl of Sutherland Simon Fraser, Master of Lovat (1621-1639) Catherine Fraser, who married (1) Sir John Sinclair of Dunbeath, and...
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