Sir David Lindsay of Crawford

Biography

Sir David de Lindsay, Lord of Crawford, Lord of the Byres, and of a number of fiefs granted to him by King Robert, including 'le Cotis' held by his father under Sir Henry de Pinceney, first appears in history as a prisoner of King Edward in Devizes Castle, 1307-1314. He was witness to a royal charter 12 July 1318, and was one of the barons who sealed the letter to Pope John XXII in Parliament, 6 April 1320 asserting the independence of Scotland. He was a guarantor of the truce with England, 1323, Custodian of Berwick 1329, Constable of Edinburgh Castle 1346, and an ambassador to England 1349 and 1351.

He confirmed the charter to Newbattle of Sir Gerard de Lindsay in September 1327. He founded a mass at Lindores for his wife before 19 November 1355, she being then buried there. He married Maria Aberneth, widow of Andrew de Leschelyn (Leslie) and daughter (co-heir with her sister Margaret, Countess of Angus) of Sir Alexander de Abernethy, the dispensation for which marriage was granted on 28 November 1324, on the narrative that she and her previous husband were both related in the fourth degree to David de LIndsay of the diocese of Glasgow. Sir David granted an annuity of 20 shillings for the maintenance of Alicia de Lindsay, a nun at North Berwick. Sir David had a pension from Dundee traceable for many generations in the Exchequer Rolls. He died before 18 October 1357. [Scots Peerage, 3:10-11.]

Family

From http://www.thepeerage.com/p2116.htm#i21153

Children of Maria Abernethy and Sir David de Lindsay of Crawford

1. Sir William de Lindsay of the Byres+ d. c 1 Jul 1393
2. Sir James de Lindsay of Crawford+1 d. 1357
3. Sir Alexander de Lindsay+1 d. Oct 1381
4. David Lindsay3
5. unknown daughter de Lindsay+1

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Origins

From The Scots Peerage, Vol. 3. “Lindsay, Earl of Crawford.” Page 9. < Archive.Org >

The five children of Alexander Lindsay and his wife were:

1. Sir David de Lindsay, Lord Crawford, Custodian of Berwick & Edinburgh Castle+ d. 1355. Married Maria Abernethy, widow of Andrew de Leschelyn (Leslie) and daughter (co-heiress with her sister Margaret, Countess of Angus) of Sir Alexander de Abernethy.
2. Alexander,11 who was imprisoned at Carlisle, 1308-1314, became a knight banneret, and was ancestor, as alleged, of the Lindsays of Ormiston, afterwards represented by Cockburn of Langton.
3. Reginald, prisoner at Carlisle with his brother.
4. William, Rector of Ayr,1 and Chamberlain of Scotland in 1317, whose close connection with the house of Crawford2 suggests this affiliation. He died before 5 Kal. January 1339.
5. Beatrix, d. b 1352, married, first, to Sir Archibald Douglas, and was mother of the first Earl of Douglas ; 3 secondly, to Sir Robert Erskine of Erskine, Great Chamberlain of Scotland.4

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References

• http://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p122.htm#i...
• http://www.archive.org/stream/peerageofscotlan00craw#page/168/mode/...
• https://books.google.com/books?id=bGZfAAAAcAAJ