For instance, the Gordon family, to which Lord Byron belongs, is a prestigious Highland family in Scotland that once pledged allegiance to the Catholic Church. During the Scottish Reformation, they were a major force in the Royalists. In the battle for the throne between Queen Mary and her son James VI (James I of England), the Gordon family firmly supported Mary. And during the English Civil War of the 1640s, the Gordon family fought as Royalists supporting Charles I against Cromwell's Parliament Army.
Though the Gordon family has now accepted the British Royal Family's Hanover lineage, they still, deep down, look down on these German outsiders and often speak contemptuously of the Hanoverians in private.
