David Lindsay

- 1446

• Name	David Lindsay
  Gender	Male
  Death	17 Jan 1446	Finavon Castle, Angus, Scotland   [1, 2]
  Alternate death	27 Jan 1446  [3]
  Person ID	I27279	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of TWK
  Last Modified	20 Jun 2020

  
  

  Father	Alexander Lindsay,   b. Abt 1387   d. Between 31 Mar 1438 and 8 Sep 1439 (Age ~ 51 years)
  Mother	Marjory
  Marriage	Bef 1410  [3, 4]
  Family ID	F16285	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Marjory Ogilvy   d. Aft 17 Nov 1478
  Marriage	Aft 26 Feb 1423  [4]
  Children	+ 1. Alexander Lindsay   d. Sep 1453, Finhaven Castle, Angus, Scotland
  Family ID	F16283	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	22 Mar 2020

  
  

• Notes

  3rd Earl of Crawford. "David Lindsay third earl of Crawford (d. 1446), had been knighted by 17 September 1425 and witnessed a royal charter as earl on 1 February 1440. During the minority of James II he was associated politically with the Douglas family and he was among those who ravaged the lands of James Kennedy, bishop of St Andrews, in 1445. As a result he was excommunicated; according to a later source, this did not bother him greatly. He died at Finavon Castle on 17 January 1446, having been mortally wounded while attempting to prevent a battle at Arbroath between Lindsay kinsmen and the Ogilvy family, to which his wife, Marjory, belonged. Friction between the two families had arisen after the earl's son Alexander was replaced as justiciar of Arbroath Abbey by Alexander Ogilvy of Inverquharity. […] He had died excommunicate and was not buried until his erstwhile foe Bishop Kennedy lifted the sentence." [Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, citation details below]

  
  

• Sources

  [S76] The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press, 2004-ongoing. [S1480] The Ancestry of Charles II, King of England: A Medieval Heritage by Charles M. Hansen and Neil D. Thompson. Saline, Michigan: McNaughton and Gunn, 2012., month, year, and place only. [S800] The Scots Peerage, Founded on Wood's Edition of Sir Robert Douglas's Peerage of Scotland, Containing an Historical and Genealogical Account of the Nobility of That Kingdom. Ed. James Balfour Paul. Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1904-1914. [S1480] The Ancestry of Charles II, King of England: A Medieval Heritage by Charles M. Hansen and Neil D. Thompson. Saline, Michigan: McNaughton and Gunn, 2012.