William Sutherland, 4th 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.

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.