daughter of Alexander Stewart

NAME NOT KNOWN

A wife has not been identified for Sir Alexander de Lindsay. According to William A. Lindsay, KC., writing in the Scots Peerage account of the Lindsay family: "There is reason to believe that his wife was a sister of James, Steward of Scotland". The Scots Peerage III: 9 his suggestion is founded upon a Papal dispensation granted to his grandson, Sir James de Lindsay, Lord of Crawford and Kirkmichael, but he does not identify the chain of reasoning which led him to make this speculative proposal. Papal Registers III: 225

The Scots Peerage account of the Stewart family makes no mention a marriage between a daughter of the fourth Steward and Sir Alexander de Lindsay. The Scots Peerage I: 13 Nor does the account of the Stewart family publish by the Foundation for Medieval Genealogy. Foundation for Medieval Genealogy: High Stewards of Scotland, or the account of the Lindsay family. Foundation for Medieval Genealogy: Lindsay

Evidence from the Papal Registers

13 April 1346: To James de Lindesay, knight, and Egidia Stiward, of the diocese of Glasgow. Dispensation at the request of Philip, king of France, to intermarry, they being related in the third and fourth degrees of kindred. Papal Registers III: 225

Secondary Source Evidence

Calendar of Entries in the Papal Registers Relating to Great Britain and Ireland. Papal Letters. Edited by W. H. Bliss and C. Johnston. (H.M.S.O., London, 1897), 637 pp. plus index

Genealogy

1. The Scots Peerage. founded on Wood's ed. of Sir Robert Douglas's Peerage of Scotland; containing an historical and genealogical account of the nobility of that kingdom. Edited by Sir James Balfour Paul, Lord Lyon King of Arms. Volume I (David Douglas, Edinburgh, 1904), 575 pp. For the Kings of Scotland see pp. 1-36
2. The Scots Peerage. founded on Wood's ed. of Sir Robert Douglas's Peerage of Scotland; containing an historical and genealogical account of the nobility of that kingdom. Edited by Sir James Balfour Paul, Lord Lyon King of Arms. Volume III. (David Douglas, Edinburgh, 1906), 617 pp. plus Errata. For Lindsay Earl of Crawford see pp. 1-51

Research Notes and Comments

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Stewart,_4th_High_Steward_o...

Presumed legitimate, but possibly not.

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John Ravilious has postulated that the wife of Sir Alexander Lindsay was not a daughter of Alexander Stewart, but a granddaughter, either as daughter of Alexander's son John Stewart, or as daughter of Reginald Crawford by a daughter of Alexander Stewart. More info is needed.

Links

• http://www.stirnet.com/genie/data/british/ss4tz/stewart01.php
• http://www.celtic-casimir.com/webtree/16/39907.HTM
• 580 Jim Weber http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=PED&db=jweber&i....

Alexander, Earl of Crawford married Margaret Dunbar, daughter of Sir David Dunbar of Cockburn, himself a son of George I, Earl of March, and had issue:

   Lady Elizabeth Lindsay (d. 1509), married to John Drummond, 1st Lord Drummond

   David Lindsay, 1st Duke of Montrose (1440-1495)

   Alexander Lindsay, 7th Earl of Crawford (d. 1517).

Lord Crawford also had an illegitimate son, Alexander, who entered holy orders and became a canon of Aberdeen. - wikipedia