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| | DO WELL AND LET THEM SAY: GORDON |
 | | The Earl had in 1424 been one of the hostages sent to England as security for the ransom of James I., and his son George, the second Earl, married the Princess Joanna, daughter of that King, from whom all the later heads of the house have the royal Stewart blood in their veins. |
 | | Earl George’s second son, Adam, Lord of Aboyne, marrying Elizabeth, Countess of Sutherland, became Earl of Sutherland in her right, and ancestor of the great Sutherland family, while the third son, Sir William Gordon, became ancestor of the Gordons of Gight, and so of George Gordon, Lord Byron, in the nineteenth century. |
 | | As Earls of Huntly from 1449, Marquesses from 1559, and Dukes of Gordon from 1684, the family held Chiefship until 1836, when the Earl of Aboyne, of a collateral line, inherited as Chief and Marquess of Huntly. |
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