George Gordon, 2nd Marquess of Huntly (1592 – March 1649), styled Earl of Enzie from 1599 to 1636, eldest son of George Gordon, 1st Marquess of Huntly by Lady Henrietta Stewart, daughter of Esmé Stewart, 1st Duke of Lennox, was brought up in England as a Protestant, and later created Viscount Aboyne by Charles I.
On succeeding to his father's title his influence in Scotland was employed by the king to balance that of Argyll in the dealings with the Covenanters, but without success. In the civil war he distinguished himself as a royalist, and in 1647 was excepted from the general pardon; in March 1649, having been captured and given up, he was beheaded by order of the Scots parliament at Edinburgh.
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His fourth son Charles was created Earl of Aboyne in 1660; and the eldest son Lewis was proclaimed 3rd Marquess of Huntly by Charles II in 1651. But the attainder was not reversed by parliament until 1661.
His youngest son Henry served the King of Poland. His youngest daughter Catherine Gordon, who became lady-in-waiting of Marie Louise Gonzaga, Queen of Poland, consort of both brothers Kings Władysław IV Vasa and John II Casimir Vasa.[1]
Lewis Gordon's son, Georges Gordon, 4th Marquess of Huntly, became 1st Duke of Gordon as well. His great-great-grand-children are George Gordon, 5th Duke of Gordon and Lady Charlotte Gordon, Duchess of Richmond as wife of Charles Lennox, 4th Duke of Richmond. She is the very famous host of the Duchess of Richmond's ball, happening on 15 June 1815, the night before the Battle of Quatre Bras, 3 days before the Battle of Waterloo.
The Duke and Duchess of Richmond are ancestors of Diana, Princess of Wales née Spencer, and of her son Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, heir to the United Kingdom and the 15 other Commonwealth realms.
Indeed, the genealogical line is :
Catherine Gordon married the Royal secretary and Polish poet Jan Andrzej Morsztyn and became, by her younger daughter Isabella Morsztynowna, Prince Kazimierz Czartoryski's mother-in-law.
Through Czartoryski's, George Gordon, 2nd Marquess of Huntly is an ancestor of :
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| Preceded by George Gordon |
Marquess of Huntly 1636–1649 |
Succeeded by Lewis Gordon |
| Preceded by New creation |
Viscount Aboyne 1632–1636 |
Succeeded by James Gordon |