Richard de Gordon, de Swinton 2nd Lord of Gordon in the Merse

• Preferred Name: Richard de Gordon, de Swinton 2nd Lord of Gordon in the Merse^{[1] [2] [3] [4]}
  
• Gender: M
  
• http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: Sir
  
• Death: 1200 in Swinton, Berwickshire, Scotland at LATI: N5.72 LONG: E2.261 with note: Granted land to the Monks of Kelso
  
• Birth: ABT 1130 in Gordon, Berwickshire, Scotland at LATI: N5.679 LONG: E2.5586
  
• FSID: GN2T-JTD
  
• Notes:

  === Richard or Richer Gordon is the earliest ===
  Richard or Richer Gordon is the earliest of the name who has been found on record in Scotland. The first notice of him is in a charter by himself, granting to the monks of Kelso and to the church of St Michael, in his town of Gordon, certain lands bounded as described, with others named. He also grants that they may place a chaplain in the church as they please. This charter is stated in a recent work on the Gordons to be of date 1160, but the chapel of Gordon only came into the hands of the monks of Kelso in 1171, when the monks of Durham exchanged it for the chapel of Earlston, and the church of St Laurence at Berwick. The chapel of Gordon, which was under the mother-church of Home, is styled a church in Richard's charter, and the latter was probably granted some years after 1171. Little more is known of Richard Gordon. He is said to have died about 1170, but he and Adam of Gordon, perhaps a brother, appear as witnesses in a writ by Patirck, fifth Earl of Dunbar, to the monks of Durham, undated, but which, from comparison with other writs, was granted after 1182, and most probably between the years 1189 and 1199. [The Scots Peerage IV:507-508]
  
  === 1150 ===
  1150

• m. 1182 in Gordon Berwickshire, Berwick, Scotland

1. Thomas de Gordon, Knight 3rd Laird of Gordon, b. ABT 1183 in Gordon, Berwickshire, Scotland     d. ABT 1260 in Gordon, Berwickshire, Scotland

1. Title: Legacy NFS Source: Richard Gordon -
   Author: Ancestral File (TM), The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, June 1998 (c), data as of 5 JAN 1998
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2. Title: Legacy NFS Source: Richard Gordon -
   Author: Ancestral File (R), The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Copyright (c) 1987, June 1998, data as of 5 January 1998
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3. Title: Legacy NFS Source: Richard Gordon -
   Author: Stirnet.com, Peter Barns-Graham, Chairman, Name: http://www.stirnet.com;, Page number: Gordon01
   Note: Peter Barns-Graham, Chairman, Stirnet.com (http://www.stirnet.com).
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4. Title: Legacy NFS Source: Richard Gordon -
   Author: The Scots Peerage; Sir James Balfour Paul {1904-1914, 2000 rev} with Addenda et Corrigenda {2000}, Page number: IV:507-508
   Note: Source Media Type: Book
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