![]() Early Notables of the Gord family (pre 1700) Īdam Gordon acquired by Royal grant the lands of Coldstream on the River Tweed and his successors held these lands for many centuries. Michael between the years 1150-1180, to the monks of Kelso. The first Gordon on record was Richer de Gordum, lord of the Barony of Gordon in the Merse, who granted a piece of land and the church of St. How, after such an operation, he could get into Scotland we are not told." According to history, this Gourdon was a common archer, who having been brought before the dying monarch was forgiven by him, and ordered to be liberated with a handsome present but the Flemish general, who had no notion of such generosity, very coolly ordered him to be flayed alive. "There is a nice little romance to the tune of making the founder of the family a certain Bertrand de Gourdon, who shot Richard the Lion-Hearted at Chaluz. "According to some genealogists this name is derived from Gordonia, a town in Macedonia according to others from a manor in Normandy-origins literally too "far-fetched," since the parish of Gordon, in Berwickshire, where we find the family located at an early date, is its true source. It has been further suggested that the Gordons were cadets of the Swintons as the coats of arms borne by the two families are the same. There was also a distinguished family named Gurdon in Hampshire, England, with whom it has been suggested they were connected. ![]() "The earliest known home of the Scots family was in Berwickshire, and here we find a place name Gordon, from which the surname may have been derived. The surname Gord was first found in Berwickshire an ancient county of Scotland, presently part of the Scottish Borders Council Area, located in the eastern part of the Borders Region of Scotland, where legend has it that they were granted lands by King Malcolm Ceanmore, successor to MacBeth, in 1057, thus placing bearers of the name in lowland Scotland, before the invasion of the Normans.
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