Adam Gordon of Auchindoun (1545–1580) was a Scottish knight, younger brother of the Earl of Huntly and military leader during the Marian civil war on behalf of Mary, Queen of Scots in north west Scotland. In Scottish ballad lore, Adam became known as Edom o'Gordon.
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the Clan Ogilvy but passed to the Gordons in 1535. AdamGordonofAuchindoun was the leader of a party ofGordons who torched the Forbes's Corgarff Castle...
the son of Captain Adam Durnford Gordon and Harriet Gordon, his first cousin, both of whom were descended from AdamGordonofAuchindoun, of the ballad...
of Scotland from 1498 to 1501. His younger son, the Hon. AdamGordon, married Elizabeth, suo jure Countess of Sutherland. Their grandson, John Gordon...
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the site of one of the most infamous events of the bitter feud between the Clan Forbes and Clan Gordon: a force under AdamGordonofAuchindoun ravaged...
Master of Works 27 October – AdamGordonofAuchindoun, knight (born 1545) Robert Lindsay of Pitscottie, chronicler (born c. 1532) Timeline of Scottish...
by AdamGordonofAuchindoun, resulting in the deaths of Lady Forbes, her children, and numerous others, and giving rise to the ballad Edom o Gordon, although...
and execution of soldiers loyal to Mary, Queen of Scots, (at Cramond Bridge), who were going north to join with AdamGordonofAuchindoun. Mary's supporters...
during the Marian Civil War. She was worried that AdamGordonofAuchindoun, a supporter of Mary, Queen of Scots, was coming to Arbroath. At this time she...
been personal friends of Moray and John Knox. Meanwhile, in the north of Scotland, AdamGordonofAuchindoun, brother of the Earl of Huntly, fought for the...
to Aberdeen and executed three days later. A younger brother AdamGordonofAuchindoun, also captured at Corrichie, was spared. The Earls body was preserved...
men, commanded two bands of musketeers called "hagbutters." Their whole strength was about 800 men. AdamGordonofAuchindoun and Captain Ker had 900 men...
Earl of Aboyne is a title in the Peerage of Scotland, borne in the Gordon family (see the Marquess of Huntly for earlier history of the family). There...
1496. Further alterations were undertaken in the 15th century. AdamGordonofAuchindoun laid siege to Glenbervie in 1572 and captured the castle during...
the Peerage of Scotland. It was created on 20 April 1632 for George Gordon, Earl of Enzie, eldest son of George Gordon, 1st Marquess of Huntly, with...
Marquess of Douglas. George Gordon, 2nd Marquess of Huntly, and Earl of Enzie. Francis Gordon (d. 1620) AdamGordonof Aboyne, and later ofAuchindoun Laurence...