William Sutherland, 4th of Duffus (died 1513) was a member of the Scottish nobility and a cadet of the Clan Sutherland.
William Sutherland, 4th of Duffus (died 1513) was a member of the Scottish nobility and a cadet of the Clan Sutherland.
He was the son of William Sutherland (died 1474) and the grandson of Alexander Sutherland, 3rd of Duffus. He also had an elder brother named Alexander Sutherland who died before 8 October 1478, and so William succeeded to the estate of Duffus. [1]
William Sutherland, 4th of Duffus had a niece, Christina Sutherland, who was the daughter of his brother Alexander. After she married William Oliphant she disputed the right to the title of Duffus. She had powerful friends and the issue was long debated in the ecclesiastical courts in both Scotland and Rome. The matter was finally settled in about 1507 in a contract which favoured William Sutherland and in which Christina's son, George Oliphant, signed over his rights to the estates to William Sutherland who subsequently received a Crown charter for the lands of Duffus. [2] [3]
According to George Harvey Johnstone writing in 1910, William Sutherland, 4th of Duffus died before February 1513–14. [1] According to James Balfour Paul's 1906 The Scots Peerage , he may have been killed fighting at the Battle of Flodden which took place on 8 September 1513. [2]
According to James Balfour Paul's The Scots Peerage, William Sutherland's wife may have been a Janet Innes Lady Greeship, said to be the daughter of the family of Innes, who as a widow remarried before 1517 to Hugh Rose of Kilravock. William Sutherland, 4th of Duffus is known to have left one son, William Sutherland, 5th of Duffus. [2]
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Clan Sutherland also known as House of Sutherland is a Highland Scottish clan whose traditional territory is the shire of Sutherland in the far north of Scotland. The chief of the clan was also the powerful Earl of Sutherland; however, in the early 16th century, this title passed through marriage to a younger son of the chief of Clan Gordon. The current chief is Alistair Sutherland, who holds the title Earl of Sutherland.
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