Everything about George Gordon 4th Earl Of Huntly totally explained
George Gordon, 4th Earl of Huntly (
1514 –
28 October,
1562), was a
Scottish nobleman.
The grandson of the 3rd Earl of Huntly, and a childhood companion of
James V, he inherited the earldom and estates in
1524. As commander of the King's Army he defeated the English at the
Battle of Haddon Rig in
1542, was a member of the council of Regency under Arran and
Cardinal Beaton and succeeded as
Chancellor on the murder of Beaton in 1546. He was captured at
Pinkie in
1547 but escaped and in
1550 accompanied
Mary of Guise to France. He joined the
Lords of the Congregation in 1560 and was prepared to accept
Mary Queen of Scots until she transferred the
Earldom of Moray, which had been given to the Earl of Huntly in 1549, to her half-brother
Lord James Stewart, at which point he withdrew to his estates in the North-East of Scotland.
Queen Mary toured the north-east in August 1562, and was refused entry to
Inverness Castle on Gordon's orders. The Queen's forces captured the Castle before moving to
Aberdeen where she issued a summons for Gordon. He refused to answer and was
outlawed. He marched on Aberdeen but was defeated by Lord James Stewart at the
Battle of Corrichie in October 1562. He died of
apoplexy after his capture, and his son, Sir John was executed in Aberdeen. Huntly was posthumously forfeited by parliament in May 1563.
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