Beatrice Lindsay

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Aft 1337

Family/Spouse: Archibald Douglas. Archibald (son of William Douglas and Eleanor de Lovaine) was born after 18 Feb 1290; died on 19 Jul 1333 in Halidon Hill, Northumberland, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. William de Douglas was born about 1320; died about May 1384 in Douglas, Lanarkshire, Scotland; was buried in Melrose Abbey, Roxburghshire, Scotland.

Beatrice married Robert Erskine of that Ilk after Jul 1335. Robert (son of William Erskine) died between 14 May 1385 and 11 Nov 1385. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Thomas Erskine died between 11 Nov 1403 and 18 May 1404.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: of Barnweill, Ayrshire, Scotland
• Alternate death: Aft Jul 1306

Notes:

The identity of his wife is unknown. The Scots Peerage (citation details below) says "There is reason to believe that his wife was a sister of James, Steward of Scotland."

From the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography:

Of age by 1290, when he attended the parliament of Birgham, Lindsay is said to have been knighted by Edward I, and in August 1296 did homage for his Scottish lands to the English king. He is also recorded in that year as holding Luffness and Ballencrief from Henry de Pinkney, the English heir to those Lindsay estates and possibly also to Crawford.

Despite his early links with Comyn and Edward I, after 1296 Alexander Lindsay is usually found among the adherents of the younger Robert Bruce; his wife was probably a sister of James the Steward, a prominent Bruce supporter. Lindsay refused to participate in Edward I's expedition to Flanders in 1297, and with his younger brother John instead joined Wallace and Bruce in their short-lived rising against the English king in July 1297. Following the Scottish capitulation, Lindsay stood surety for Bruce's handing over of hostages. Lindsay appears to have been briefly in Edward's peace after the battle of Falkirk (22 July 1298), but was forfeited again later that year, and presumably continued to fight against the English until the general surrender of 1304. Recognized as a prominent figure in the Scottish resistance, Lindsay was exiled from Scotland for half a year by Edward's ordinance of September 1305, but he seems to have returned early, in time to be present in Bruce's company when the latter killed John Comyn of Badenoch on 10 February 1306 and declared himself king. Lindsay then remained with King Robert during the difficult months which followed, until he was himself captured at Kildrummy in September and his lands forfeited. However, Lindsay was free again by the summer of 1308, when he was one of the leaders of that year's Galloway campaign. As a prominent Bruce supporter he was a signatory of the letter sent to Philippe IV of France from the St Andrews parliament of 1309. He may have witnessed a royal charter in 1312, but was certainly dead by 10 December 1314.

Notes:

Justiciar of Lothian, 1241. Regent in 1255 and the kingdom's chamberlain in 1256. According to both the ODNB (citation details below) and the Scots Peerage (citation details below), he died in Egypt on crusade. Based on this page at People of Medieval Scotland, it would appear that his ancestry as put forward in the Scots Peerage is doubtful.

David married Margaret de Lindesay. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

The Scots Peerage (citation details below), which spells her name as we show it here, says she was "probably" a daughter of Walter de Lindsay, sheriff of Berwickshire, Justiciar of Lothian, ambassador to England in 1265, who died in 1271.