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Count James George Gordon (c. 1670-aft. 1711) was a soldier . , but Scottish and German parents, educated in and France, and Order of St John of , in which capaicty he visited Malta as an envoy of the Polish.

James Gordon was the second son of the Scottish soldier-of-fortune Patrick Gordon (), from his first marriage to Katherine von Bockhoven (c. ), the daughter of a German officer . The first son, seems to have been, neither or scholar, and opted to . In 1686, James was being educated at Memel, but his father, fearing Protestant tendancies, moved him to the Scots College at Douai in .

By 1690, he had returned to , helping his father make fireworks for , and he participated. In 1699, he succeded his father as colonel of the Butyrsky Regiment, Grenadiers, and at around the same, he was was Count - states that of the Holy Roman Empire, in 1701. an indication that.

In 1700, he was captured, presumably the at . After about two years as a prisoner of war in Sweden, he escaped and in 1702 he commanded the assault during the successful recapture of the fortress of Shlisselburg, for which he was rewarded with . Subsequently to the rank of Brigadier.

Some time between 1700 and , made the decision to join the , for which he received from both and . In this capacity, he was sent to Malta in 1711 as the envoy of the , Stanisla, to the Ostrog, which had been .

Roderick Cavaliero, "The Affair of Ostrog. An episode in Malto-Polish relations in the eighteenth century http://regiment.ru/Lib/A/61/5.htm Pasiages from the Diary of , pp xxi-xxii