TITLE ROMANCE

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 597, 25 February 1929, Page 2

TITLE ROMANCE

500-YEAR OLD CLAIM REVIVED DOCUMENT IN VATICAN The claim of Sir Bruce Oort'. Seton to call himself Lord Gore: —a claim which was lodged overtta | years ago, is to be argued befor;: Committee of Privileges of the H:: of Lords. Sir Bruce’s claim rests on incicr; of Scottish history of almost 500 yen | ago. The search has extended to a Vatican Library at Rome, when a | late Dr. Walter Seton, your brother to Sir Bruce, discovered n important document. \ This was a copy of a Papa! B declaring that the marriage bet«K Alexander Seton and Egidia Ha 7 the fifteenth century was legai - binding. This is the starting g- j of the claim. ; Alexander Seton became Lord don. At the age of 17 he had a i ried Egidia Hay, an heiress, j had one son, also named Aieis:I from whom Sir Bruce Gordon-Sr: ! claims to be descended. ,^ Then Alexander the elder wish- ■ i marry someone else, and claimed w j the first marriage had been irrer-^ ] as his wife was a blood relaUoL The Bishop of Moray gave kM decree of divorce, and Lord | in 1438 married Elizabeth Dtp - | j whose tather was Lord Ctic- | Chancellor of Scotland. In Hit was made Earl of Huntly. . At his death the estates of to-' wife went to his son, Alexander Ss- | His title went to his second • j George, the first child of EW®' - | i Crichton. 5 „ On an appeal to the King I land a charter was granted, orde- | that the earldom should pass toi descendants of the second imnw For nearly 450 years the | 1 Huntly were accepted as the h- | j Gordon. a Then the Vatican document to light. _______