In addition, it would be more likely that the grandfather of Richard & Adam de Gordon, Adam de Gordun who fought with Malcolm Ceanmor would be the link with the Saxon family of Swinton, if there were indeed a link.Įdward Gordon of Cairnfield in his History of the House of Gordon, XVIII Vols. Peer.,iv, p.507) Although there seems to be much to support the possibility of the Swinton claim in regards to the early customs of the family, the similarity of the arms and so forth, there has been no documentary proof found to date for this supposition. There are many suppositions on the origin of the family from the Gorduni tribe located in Flanders during the time of Julius Caesar to the Norman family de Guerdon (later spelled Gourdon) to the possibility of Adam & Richard de Gordon being the sons of Ernulf of Swinton and therefore a cadet branch of the Swinton family whose arms also bear the three boar’s heads. The other version put forth has the family coming during the reign of Malcolm IV or his brother William the Lion and settling in the Berwickshire area called Gor dun meaning hill fort hence the name of the family. Aunque solo sea porque esta lectura coincidió en aquella época con mi crush por System of a Down.Įn fin, que a veces uno se arriesga y gana y otras se arriesga y no.With 157 main branches, the Gordon family traces it’s lineage back to Adam de Gordon who settled in Berwickshire in the time of Malcolm III, known as Malcolm Ceanmor, or his son, David I (1124-53).Ĭhalmers in Caledonia appears to be giving two versions of the family’s origin first being in the time of Malcolm III or his son David I, with Adam being one of the favorites and ridding the land of a particularly pesky boar (hence the boar’s heads on the arms) and being given land in Berwickshire. Me parece una comunidad muy atrayente y luchadora. Quizá porque habla de la comunidad armenia en Estados Unidos después del 'éxodo' que emprendieron después del genocidio de principios de siglo XX y que se silenció arteramente. Por eso digo que en este caso me arriesgué y lo disfruté. Quiero decir, que aunque no suelo leer las contras, alguna información me ha llegado, ya sea sobre el autor, ya sea sobre el contenido, ya sea sobre la importancia de la obra (en el contexto actual o en contextos pasados). Mi forma de escoger lecturas no atiende a un criterio fijo y en pocas ocasiones me lanzo sin tener información previa de lo que voy a leer. No tanto en el cómo leo sino en el qué leo. Nunca he llegado a pensar mucho en mi comportamiento como lector. Este es un libro con el que me arriesgué.

King of the Bottom by William C. Gordon