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50 GOOJERAT— -GORDON. GOOJERAT. See " Gouon of Goojerat, of the Punjaub, and of tiie City of LuiiiuicK," Viscountcy (Gougli), cr. 1S49. GORDON. Barony [&] 1. Sir Alexander Seton (yr. br. of Sir John S., I. 1435 ? ancestor of the Earls of Winton [S.]), 2d ami yst s. of William Skton, of that ilk, by Catharine, da. of Sir William Sinclair, of Herdmans- touu, having m. Elizabeth, only da. and U. of Sir Adam Gordon, of Gordon and Hnntly (slain at Homeldon battle, 14 Sep. 1402), by Elizabeth, da. of Sir William Keith, Mareschal of Scotland, acquired the lauds of Gordon and Hnntly which were confirmed to them, 20 July 1408 ;( a ) was at the battle of Harlow, 1411 ; in the wars with France, 1421 ; one of the Commissioners to treat of and one of the hostiges (1424), for the ransom of James I. [S.], from England ; by whom,(«) probably about 1435,(b)he was cr. LORD GORDON [S.], a Lord of Pari. He was certainly living 1435, but probably d. before 1437( a ) II 1437? 2. Alexander (Seton alias Gordon), Lord Gordon to [S.], s. and h. who (v.p.) as " Master of Gordon," was in 1485, in the 1470. Embassy to France.( c ) He (and not his father) appears to have been the Lord Gordon, sent to negotiate with England, 1137-39. In 1445,(0) ho appears to have been er. EAUL OF HUNTLY [St.], but inasmuch as the remainder thereof would naturally have been to his eldest son (by a former wife) he obtained a grant of the same, 8 Jan. 1449/50, limiting the dignity, in the first instance, to his issue by his then wife, whose son accordingly sue. to that Earldom on his death 13 July 1470, but the Baron;/ of Gordon [S.] became dormant.^) See fuller account of him under "Huntly" Earldom [3.], cr. 1145 or 1450. (*) Douglas' "Baronage" [S.], 1798, pp. 106-170. ( b ) "The existence of the Barony of Gordon in 1137 [before 7 Oct. 1437] is fixed by cotemporary legal evidence recently [1842] recovered from the Gray charter- chest, which besides styling Alexander Seton (the s. and h. up. of Alexander Seton, the first Peer) a nolle and potent Lord, also gives him the title of Master of Gordon, an epithet, the higher the more we go back, and unequivocally denoting the eldest son of an Earl or Lord of Pari. ; while ' a noble Lord, Sehir Alexander, Lord of Gordon,' first appends his seal for 'ye part of ye Barounis,' after the Earl of Douglas, to an agreement in Pari. dat. 4 Sep. 1439." See " Riddell," p. 319 and 274, in which last place he speaks of the husband (not the son as generally stated) of .the Gordon heiress as being the first Lord Gordon so " cr. before 7 Oct. 1137, as can be instructed by legal evidence recently [1842] recovered." (°) Fordun, vol. ii, p. 485 and 541, quoted in Douglas' " Baronage " as in note " a." See also " Riddell," p. S72, note 3, as to the date of the Earldom of Hnntly. (d) Tile right to this Barony of Gordon, which apparently had not been subject to the grant (affecting the Earldom of Hnntly) of 8 Jan. 1449/50, would appear to have devolved on the Earl's eldest s. and h. (by a former wife, Egidia, da. and b. of John Hay) Sir Alexander Seton who inherited his mother's estates of Touch and Tullibody, co. Clackmannan. This Alexander (according to Douglas' Baronage" [S.], edit. 1798) waB, " while his father was a Lord Baron, designed Master of Gordon" and after his father had been cr. an Earl " was designed Lord Gordon as his apparent heir even after tho honours and tho comitates were limited to the issue of his [tho father's] last marriage." After several disputes with his yr. br. (the 2d Earl of Huntly) they agreed " to stand by assist and defend one another by an indenture 10 April 1470 " [sic. Qy. in their father's lifetime?] and "this bond of friendship appears to be the only ground upon which Sir Alexander's never after claiming the title of Lord Gordon can be accounted for." Among his numerous descendants, James Seton, of Touch, the heir male and heir general, d. unm. 1742 when the representatioudevolved onthesaid James'ssister, among whose descendants (by Hugh Smith) are the present (1890) heirs of line, the family of Seton-Steuart, Barts. (a Baronetcy cr. 1815) while the heirs male of the body of tho first Lord Gordon appear to be the family of Seton, Barts. [8. J of Abercorn, a Baronetcy cr. 1603.