Genealogie Spaak » Elizabeth Beatrice Keith (± 1510-1562)

Persoonlijke gegevens Elizabeth Beatrice Keith 

• Zij is geboren rond 1510 in Dunnottar Castle-Stonehaven, Scotland.
• Zij is overleden in het jaar 1562 in Huntly Castle-Aberdeenshire, Scotland.
• Een kind van Robert Keith en Elizabeth Beatrice Douglas
• Deze gegevens zijn voor het laatst bijgewerkt op 30 juni 2018.

Gezin van Elizabeth Beatrice Keith

Zij is getrouwd met George Gordon.

Zij zijn getrouwd op 27 maart 1530.Bron 1

On 27 March 1530, Elizabeth Keith married George Gordon, 4th Earl of Huntly, the wealthiest and most powerful landowner in the Scottish Highlands, whose estates approached those of an independent monarch. He was also the leading Catholic magnate in Scotland. Her brother promised to give Elizabeth five thousands merks as a tocher. Upon her marriage, Elizabeth became the Countess of Huntly. The Huntlys’ chief residence was Strathbogie Castle in the Scottish Highlands. The Earl became Lord Chancellor of Scotland in 1546 following the death of David Beaton, Archbishop of St. Andrews. He was taken prisoner at the battle of Pinkie on 10 September 1547 and Elizabeth came with him to Berwick-upon-Tweed, returning to Scotland at the end of the month.

Kind(eren):

1. Thomas Gordon  
2. George Gordon  ????-1576
3. Margaret Gordon  
4. Alexander Gordon  ????-± 1552
5. John Gordon  ????-1562
6. William Gordon  
7. Patric Gordon  ????-1594
8. Robert Gordon  
9. Elizabeth Gordon  ± 1540-1557
10. James Gordon  1541-1620
11. Adam Gordon  1545-1580
12. Jean Gordon  1546-1629

Notities over Elizabeth Beatrice Keith

Elizabeth Gordon (born Keith), Countess of Huntly, was a Scottish noblewoman and the wife of George Gordon, 4th Earl of Huntly, Scotland’s leading Catholic magnate during the reign of Mary, Queen of Scots. In 1562, Elizabeth encouraged her husband to raise forces against Queen Mary which led to his being outlawed, and after his death, his titles forfeited to the Crown. Elizabeth’s son Sir John Gordon was executed for having taken part in his father’s rebellion.
She succeeded to the title of Countess of Huntly at her marriage on 27 March 1530, but like all Scottish married women in the sixteenth century would never have used her husband’s surname. Her daughter, Lady Jean Gordon, Countess of Bothwell was the first wife of James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell, third husband of Mary, Queen of Scots.
In March 1566, Elizabeth, who had by that time become a loyal adherent of Queen Mary, spent the night tending the queen, who was in her sixth month of pregnancy, at Holyrood Palace following the murder of David Rizzio. She devised various plans for Mary's escape which the latter rejected as having been impracticable. She finally managed to smuggle a letter to her son George, who also had become Mary's partisan, ordering him to stand by at Seton with a party of nobles to aid the queen on her journey to Dunbar Castle after she successfully escaped from the palace.

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