Patrick Gordon of Auchindoun

Patrick Gordon of Auchindoun (1538–1594) was a Scottish landowner and rebel.

He was a son of George Gordon, 4th Earl of Huntly and Elizabeth Keith, a daughter of Robert Keith, Master of Marischal, who was killed at the battle of Flodden.

Lord Auchindoun's cairn is said to mark the spot where Sir Patrick died from wounds received at the battle of Glenlivet

His home was Auchindoun Castle, which he possessed in succession to his brother, Adam Gordon of Auchindoun.

He was also the owner of Gartlie or Haltoun Castle in Banff, also known as Barclay, from 1581, which he gave to his wife Agnes Beaton in 1583.[1]

He stayed at Niddry Castle in West Lothian as the guest of Lord Seton in July 1590, hoping to regain royal favour, while his wife was received at court.[2]

In March 1593 Patrick Gordon of Auchindoun was forfeited as a rebel, and Auchindoun Castle regarded as his wife's jointure, was given to Sir George Home, whose wife Elizabeth Gordon was Patrick Gordon's stepdaughter.[3]

Gordon was killed at the battle of Glenlivet on 3 October 1594. He was shot down while charging with the Earl of Erroll at the Earl of Argyll's troops, and it was reported they stabbed him with dirks and cut off his head.[4]

His first wife was Janet Leslie. He married secondly, by July 1583, Agnes Beaton, a daughter of Cardinal David Beaton, Archbishop of St. Andrews, and Marion Ogilvy, the widow of Alexander or George Gordon of Gight.[5] His step-daughter, Elizabeth Gordon, joined the court as a lady in waiting or maid of honour to Anne of Denmark in 1590, and married George Home, 1st Earl of Dunbar.[6]