Alexander Lindsay

- 1453

• Name	Alexander Lindsay  [1, 2, 3]
  Gender	Male
  Death	Sep 1453	Finhaven Castle, Angus, Scotland   [4, 5, 6]
  Burial	Greyfriars, Dundee, Angus, Scotland   [4, 7, 8]
  Person ID	I27275	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of TWK
  Last Modified	20 Jun 2020

  
  

  Father	David Lindsay   d. 17 Jan 1446, Finavon Castle, Angus, Scotland
  Mother	Marjory Ogilvy   d. Aft 17 Nov 1478
  Marriage	Aft 26 Feb 1423  [4]
  Family ID	F16283	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Margaret Dunbar,   b. Abt 1420   d. Between Jul 1498 and Jan 1500 (Age ~ 78 years)
  Children	+ 1. Elizabeth Lindsay
  Family ID	F16280	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	21 Mar 2020

  
  

• Notes

  4th Earl of Crawford. Called "the Tiger" for his character, and "Beardie" for his facial appearance. "Sheriff of Aberdeen, Guardian of the Marches, in league with the Douglas against James II, but submitted with great ceremony and was restored." [The Ancestry of Charles II, citation details below] "He had been appointed sheriff of Aberdeenshire by 1450 and as an envoy to England and commissioner of the truce the following year. From 1453 he was also a guardian of the march. Despite his border interests he was also active in the north-east, and probably in the early 1450s entered into a bond with the eighth earl of Douglas and John Macdonald, lord of the Isles. Its terms do not survive, but it was most likely intended to resolve tensions in the region while securing the interests of the subscribers. This alliance of three of the most powerful magnates in the kingdom aroused the suspicion of James II, however, and was the immediate cause of his slaying of Douglas on 22 February 1452. Shortly afterwards, on 18 May, Crawford was defeated by the earl of Huntly at Brechin and fled to Finavon. Although Huntly is said to have 'displayit the kingis banere', the battle may have been as much an extension of a private feud (Huntly had been involved in the hostilities at Arbroath in which Crawford's father was fatally wounded) as a consequence of James's hostility to Crawford. Crawford was forfeited in the parliament which assembled at Edinburgh on 12 June, but he subsequently reconciled his differences with Huntly and his father's foe Bishop Kennedy and, helped by their intercession on his behalf, had been restored to the king's favour by 23 May 1453, when he was made a conservator of a truce with England." [Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, citation details below]

  
  

• Sources

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