Adam de Gordon 2nd Laird Gordon III

• Preferred Name: Adam de Gordon 2nd Laird Gordon III^{[1] [2] [3] [4]}
  
• Alternate Name: Adam De Gordon
  
• Gender: M
  
• Brief+History: with note: Description: When Adam III de Gordon 2nd Laird Gordon was born in 1135, in Gordon, Berwickshire, Scotland, his father, Sir Adam de Gordon, , 1st Laird of Gordon, was 55 and his mother, Lady de Gordon, was 50. He had at least 1 son with Unknown. He died in 1170, in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, at the age of 35. https://ancestors.familysearch.org/en/G3H8-QDV/adam-iii-de-gordon-2nd-laird-gordon-1135-1170
  
• Birth: 1135 in Gordon, Berwickshire, Scotland at LATI: N5.679 LONG: E2.5586
  
• FSID: G3H8-QDV
  
• Death: 1170 in Aberdeenshire, Scotland
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  Electric Scotland-
  
  It is probable that the first persons of the name in this island came over with William the Conqueror in 1066. According to Chalmers, the founder of this great family came from England in the reign of David the First (1124-53), and obtained from that prince the lands of Gordon (anciently Gordun, or Gordyn, from, as Chalmers supposes, the Gaelic Gordin, "on the hill"). He left two sons, Richard, and Adam, who, though the younger son, had a portion of the territory of Gordon, with the lands of Fanys on the southern side of it.
  
  === 1126 ===
  1126
  
  === (1126) ===
  (1126)

• m. 1158 in Berwick, Scotland

1. Alexander de Gordon 3rd Laird of Gordon, b. ABT 1160 in Gordon, Berwickshire, Scotland     d. in Gordon, Berwickshire, Scotland

1. Title: Electric Scotland
   Publication: Name: https://www.electricscotland.com/webclans/dtog/gordon2.html;
   Note: The Gordons are an ancient and distinguished family, originally from Normandy, where their ancestors are said to have had large possessions. From the great antiquity of the race, many fabulous accounts have been given of the descent of the Gordons. Some derive them from a city of Macedonia, called Gordonia, whence they went to Gaul; others find their origin in Spain, Flanders, &C. Some writers suppose Bertrand de Gourden who, in 1199, wounded Richard the Lion-heart mortally with an arrow before the castle of Chalus in the Limoges, to have been the great ancestor of the Gordons, but there does not seem to be any other foundation for such a conjecture than that there was a manor in Normandy called Gourden. It is probable that the first persons of the name in this island came over with William the Conqueror in 1066. According to Chalmers, the founder of this great family came from England in the reign of David the First (1124-53), and obtained from that prince the lands of Gordon (anciently Gordun, or Gordyn, from, as Chalmers supposes, the Gaelic Gordin, "on the hill"). He left two sons, Richard, and Adam, who, though the younger son, had a portion of the territory of Gordon, with the lands of Fanys on the southern side of it. The elder son, Richard de Gordon, granted, between 1150 and 1160, certain lands to the monks of Kelso, and died in 1200. His son, Sir Thomas de Gordon. confirmed by charter these donations, and his son and successor, also named Thomas, made additional grants to the same monks, as well as to the religious of Coldstream. He died in 1285, without male issue, and his only daughter, Alicia, marrying her cousin Adam de Gordon, the son of Adam, younger brother of Richard above mentioned, the two branches of the family thus became united.
   
2. Title: Legacy NFS Source: Adam de Gordon -
   Author: Ancestral File (TM), The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, June 1998 (c), data as of 5 JAN 1998
   Page: Migrated from user-supplied source citation: urn:familysearch:source:2737222797
   
3. Title: House of Gordon
   Publication: Name: https://houseofgordonusa.org/clan-info-and-septs/historic-and-famous-gordons;
   
4. Title: "Family Search" - Adam III de Gordon 2nd Laird of Gordon
   Publication: Name: https://ancestors.familysearch.org/en/G3H8-QDV/adam-iii-de-gordon-2nd-laird-gordon-1135-1170;