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| | Clan SUTHERLAND |
 | | William, second Earl of Sutherland, was the hero who overthrew a large force of invading Danes at the battle of Embo in 1259, himself slaying their leader with the leg of a horse, a circumstance commemorated in the name of Dornoch—a horse’s hoof, and by the Earl’s Cross which still stands on the spot. |
 | | Earl Robert was, in 1427, one of the hostages to England for the payment of the ransom of King James I. He married a daughter of the King’s cousin, the Earl of Buchan, and died at Dunrobin in 1442. |
 | | To the Earl of Sutherland she had four sons, the youngest of whom was that Sir Robert Gordon of Gordonstown who was created a Baronet of Nova Scotia, the first of the order, in 1625, and became the historian of the family. |
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