Sir Knight 
Sir was born about 1273 in Huntly, Aberdeen, Scotland.1 Sir's father was 6th Laird of Gordon and his mother was Marjorie McDuff. His paternal grandparents were Adam of Faunes and Lady of Fawnes. He had four brothers and a sister, named Robert, Alexander, Roger, John and Ermegard. He was the oldest of the six children. He died on July 19th, 1333 in Battle of Halidon Hill, Berwick-on-Tweed, Northumberland, England.General Notes
Sir Adam Gordon, Justiciar of Lothian 1305; represented Scottish nobility at a Council at Westminster during Edward I's partially successful attempt to conquer Scotland; laster supported Robert I The Bruce and was granted (but found difficulty in asserting right to) the territorial Lordship of Strathbogie forfeited by the Earl of Atholl; had, with a younger son and heir: Adam Gordon of that ilk. (Burke's Peerage)
note: The Lordship of Strathbogie included the area of what the Fordons named Huntly Castle, which eventually became the family seat.
http://www.darkisle.com/h/huntly/huntly.html Phot of Huntly Castle
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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*There are earlier generations for the ancestor(s) indicated. See their page(s) for details (click name)
- b.~ 1120 in Kelso, Berwickshire, Scotland d.UNKNOWN
- b.~ 1145 in Faunes, Berkwickshire, Scotland d.UNKNOWN
- b.~ 1182 in Faunes, Berkwickshire, Scotland d.~ 1248 in Tunis, Tunisia
- b.~ 1220 in Fawnes, Berwickshire, Scotland d.1270 in En route to Palestine with Louix IX of France
- b.~ 1254 in Stitchill, Roxburgh, Scotland d.28 Apr 1296 in Battle of Dunbar, Dunbar, East Lothian, Scotland
- b.~ 1118 in Gordon, Berkwickshire, Scotland d.1200 in Gordon, Berwickshire, Scotland
- b.~ 1152 in Gordon, Berkwickshire, Scotland d.1214 in Gordon, Berkwickshire, Scotland
- b.~ 1191 in Gordon, Berkwickshire, Scotland d.1285 in Gordon, Berkwickshire, Scotland
- b.~ 1230 in Kelso, Roxburgh, Scotland d.1280 in Gordon, Berkwickshire, Scotland
- b.~ 1215 in Scotland d.UNKNOWN
- b.~ 1273 in Huntly, Aberdeen, Scotland d.19 Jul 1333 in Battle of Halidon Hill, Berwick-on-Tweed, Northumberland, England
- b.~ 1254 in Stitchill, Roxburgh, Scotland d.> 1296
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Children
Seigneur De Stitchill
Seigneur was born in Gordon, Berkwickshire, Scotland. He died in 1370 in Stichill, Roxburghshire, Scotland.
1 Ancestry.com, Steve Davis, Cahill Family, stephenp.davis@@hp.com
Further sources/citations:
Ancestry.com, , Kare-Forgue & Wysong-Elliott Family, jockare.I@@cox.net, Ancestry.com, Mike Lysell, Genealogy of the Lysell and McIlvaney Families, mlysell@@comcast.net
Further sources/citations:
Ancestry.com, , Kare-Forgue & Wysong-Elliott Family, jockare.I@@cox.net, Ancestry.com, Mike Lysell, Genealogy of the Lysell and McIlvaney Families, mlysell@@comcast.net
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