Dunrobin Castle (15)
Alexander Gordon, 12th Earl of Sutherland, having lost his father to poison when he was still just 12, was forced to marry Barbara Sinclair, the daughter of George, 4th Earl of Caithness, who was more than twice his age.  He managed to 'escape' to Huntly in 1589, divorced, remarried and spent much of the rest of his life plotting with and fighting against the Earls of Caithness as well as the Gunns - whom nobody seemed to like!

John Gordon, 16th Earl of Sutherland succeeded his father in 1703.  He aided in putting down the Jacobite rising of 1715 and in 1719 he led his own regiment at the Battle of Glen Shiel, which brought to an end the third Jacobite rising.  He also resumed the name of Sutherland, instead of Gordon.  

His grandson William, 17th Earl, supported the Hanoverians in 1745 and raised two independent companies on behalf of the Government.  At one stage, the Jacobites stormed Dunrobin Castle, but the earl narrowly escaped them through a back door.  He was also present at the Battle of Culloden, despite which, some people in the Government were unhappy with his strength of support and he struggled to prove to the parliament in London that he had not had Jacobite sympathies.
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