73 Facts About Gideon McDuck

Clan McDuck is a fictional Scottish clan of cartoon ducks from which Disney character Scrooge McDuck is descended.

Clan Gideon McDuck was created by American comic book author Carl Barks, who created the character of Scrooge Gideon McDuck.

Gideon McDuck had personally created several of the latter, including cousin Gladstone Gander and uncle Scrooge McDuck, although the specific relationships between them were still uncertain.

Gideon McDuck's stories contained numerous references to older stories by Barks as well as several original ideas.

Seat of Clan Gideon McDuck is Gideon McDuck Castle which is located in Dismal Downs, somewhere in Rannoch Moor, a non-fictional location within Scotland.

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Comics continuity does not establish when Gideon McDuck Castle was built, but it first appears in 946 when the Saxons laid siege to it.

Sir Eider Gideon McDuck was the chief of Clan Gideon McDuck during an Anglo-Saxon invasion in 946.

Gideon McDuck had refused to buy them arrows because they were too expensive, and only paid his serfs, collectively, 30 copper pieces an hour.

Eider Gideon McDuck is first mentioned in Barks' The Old Castle's Secret.

Sir Quackly Gideon McDuck was clan chief when King Macbeth was killed in 1057.

Quackly Gideon McDuck is first mentioned in The Old Castle's Secret by Carl Barks, and first appears in The Last of the Clan Gideon McDuck by Don Rosa.

Sir Murdoch Gideon McDuck was a businessman who patented the longbow.

Gideon McDuck is the last of the Dark Ages McDucks and the one who modernized their family name "MacDuich" to the more familiar "McDuck".

Gideon McDuck's longbow is later used as a clue that the boys use to uncover the mystery behind their mother, Della's, disappearance.

Sir Stuft Gideon McDuck was a successful chief of Clan Gideon McDuck who oversaw a period of prosperity.

Gideon McDuck has a small speaking role in The Last of the Clan McDuck, but makes his first appearance in The New Laird of Castle McDuck.

Sir Swamphole Gideon McDuck succeeded his father, Roast Gideon McDuck, as clan chief and inherited its financial problems.

In 1220, Swamphole sealed the dungeon of Castle Gideon McDuck, which he claimed was an attempt to decrease maintenance costs.

Gideon McDuck did create secret passageways in the castle leading to the dungeons.

Swamphole Gideon McDuck is first mentioned in The Old Castle's Secret by Carl Barks.

Sir Donald Gideon McDuck, nicknamed "Black Donald" because of his foul temper, is said to have invented golf, the hammer throw, and the caber toss in 1440.

Sir Simon Gideon McDuck was the treasurer of the Knights Templar and hid their treasure beneath Gideon McDuck Castle.

Gideon McDuck is mentioned in The Old Castle's Other Secret or A Letter from Home by Don Rosa.

Gideon McDuck's ghost appears later in the episode to stop a ghost hound from attacking Scrooge's grandnephews, Huey, Dewey, and Louie.

Gideon McDuck is mentioned on Webby Vanderquack's family chart in the 2017 DuckTales series.

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Gideon McDuck is mentioned in The History of The Clan McDuck by Don Rosa.

Gideon McDuck's name is derived from the English village of Loxley, the traditional birthplace of Robin Hood.

Captain Hugh "Seafoam" Gideon McDuck was a Gideon McDuck relative who settled in Glasgow in 1727, as the clan had been driven from their ancestral home of Dismal Downs in 1675.

Gideon McDuck obtained his own ship, the Golden Goose, and became known by the nickname "Seafoam".

In 1753, Seafoam Gideon McDuck signed a contract with Swindle McSue to deliver a cargo of horseradish to Jamaica.

Seafoam Gideon McDuck first appears in The Horseradish Story by Carl Barks.

Gideon McDuck's ghost makes a cameo appearance in the 2017 DuckTales series episode, "The Secret of Castle McDuck".

Gideon McDuck worked as a coal miner, married Molly Mallard, and had three sons – Angus, Fergus, and Jake.

Gideon McDuck appeared in Don Rosa's illustrated family tree, but has not appeared in any comic book stories.

Gideon McDuck inherited a silver watch from his ancestor Hugh "Seafoam" McDuck and passed it on to his nephew Fergus.

Gideon McDuck's ghost makes a cameo appearance in the 2017 DuckTales series episode, "The Secret of Castle McDuck".

Angus "Pothole" Gideon McDuck was born on 1829 and is the first child of Dingus and Molly Gideon McDuck, and is Scrooge's paternal uncle.

Gideon McDuck was first mentioned in "The Great Steamboat Race" by Carl Barks and later appeared in person in a handful of stories by Don Rosa.

Gideon McDuck continued working on Mississippi riverboats and he had obtained his own by 1861, named Cotton Queen.

Gideon McDuck left his riverboat to his nephew and settled down in New Orleans.

Gideon McDuck became the writer of a series of dime novels under the title The Master of Mississippi, based on a highly exaggerated description of his life.

In 1955, Porker's nephew, Horseshoe Hogg, and Scrooge Gideon McDuck would bring their uncles' steamboats back to the surface to finish the race for Cornpone Gables.

Character based on Angus named "Catfish" Gideon McDuck appears in the 1987 DuckTales episode, "Once Upon a Dime", voiced by Peter Renaday,.

Gideon McDuck was born in Glasgow in 1835 to Dingus McDuck and Molly Mallard, who were both working as coal miners at the time.

Gideon McDuck later married Downy O'Drake, his wife in Rosa's stories, who became the mother of three of his children – Scrooge, Matilda, and Hortense.

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Gideon McDuck died during the night, aged 72, and was re-united with his wife Downy and the rest of the McDuck Clan as his three children left Scotland.

Gideon McDuck was created by Don Rosa and first appears in The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck.

Gideon McDuck is of Irish origin and was born in 1840.

Gideon McDuck settled in Castle McDuck at Dismal Downs, Clan McDuck's old castle, along with her family in 1885.

Gideon McDuck died in 1897, and was buried in the McDucks' cemetery.

Gideon McDuck later appeared to her husband Fergus at his own passing, and together they joined various McDuck ancestors.

Gideon McDuck was mentioned in the story "A Christmas for Shacktown" by Carl Barks, in which Donald Duck dresses up as Jake in an attempt to trick Scrooge into giving money to charity.

Gideon McDuck lived in the same house as his brother Fergus McDuck and helped Fergus and his wife Downy O'Drake to raise their children.

Gideon McDuck settled in McDuck castle along with his brother in 1885.

Gideon McDuck is not ashamed to take advantage of Scrooge McDuck's money at every chance he gets, citing his relationship to Scrooge as the reason.

Gideon McDuck is Scrooge McDuck's moralistic brother, and is a recurring character in Italian comic stories; in those stories, Gideon is the editor of the newspaper "The County Conscience", the most credible newspaper in Duckburg.

Gideon McDuck's existence is inconsistent with a statement made in Carl Barks's "The Old Castle's Secret".

However, Gideon is not the only living relative of Scrooge to carry the surname "McDuck", and therefore cause the same inconsistency with Barks's story; others include his sister Matilda and first cousin Douglas.

Matilda Gideon McDuck was born on 1871 and is one of Scrooge Gideon McDuck's two younger sisters, the maternal aunt of his niece and nephew, Donald Duck and Della Duck and the maternal grandaunt of Huey, Dewey, and Louie.

Gideon McDuck was first mentioned in Carl Barks' 1950s sketch for a Duck family tree, where she was shown to have adopted Gladstone Gander.

Matilda Gideon McDuck was born in Glasgow, Scotland, in 1871 to Fergus Gideon McDuck and Downy O'Drake.

Don Rosa has suggested that Matilda Gideon McDuck could have married the well-known Disney character Ludwig Von Drake.

Gideon McDuck observed from a distance with her father and sister while her brother earned the number one dime.

Gideon McDuck emigrated to the United States in hopes of earning his own fortune.

Gideon McDuck was hired as a cabin boy on a merchant ship heading to New Orleans.

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Gideon McDuck renamed the horse Hortense after his spirited six-year-old sister.

In 1902 Scrooge Gideon McDuck returned to Scotland to fetch Hortense and their sister Matilda Gideon McDuck.

Gideon McDuck's son was named Donald Duck and her daughter Della Duck.

Douglas Gideon McDuck is a cousin of Scrooge who has appeared in several Danish Disney comic stories.

Gideon McDuck looks like Scrooge not only in appearance but in temperament.

Gideon McDuck is so incredibly stingy that he considers Scrooge a spendthrift, often criticizing a frustrated Scrooge for not being "McDuck-like" enough.

Gideon McDuck was used in some Brazilian comic stories in the 1970s.

Gideon McDuck was created by the Italian comic artists Guido Martina and Giovan Battista Carpi especially for the handbook I pensieri di Paperone, first published in 1973.