Sir David Lindsay, 9th Lord & 1st Earl of Crawford^{[1, 2]}

1360 - 1406  (46 years)

• Name	David Lindsay
  Prefix	Sir
  Suffix	9th Lord & 1st Earl of Crawford
  Born	1360
  Gender	Male
  Acceded to title	1398
  Died	Feb 1406
  Alt. Death	Feb 1407  [3]
  Occupation	Ambassador To England
  	Admiral of Scotland
  Person ID	I1317	Clan current
  Last Modified	28 Jan 2020

  
  

  Father	Sir Alexander Lindsay, of Glenesk,   b. 1329,   d. 1381, Candia, Crete, On His Way To The Holy Land  (Age 52 years)
  Mother	Catherine Stirling, Heiress of Glenesk,   b. 1331,   d. 1392  (Age 61 years)
  Married	1358  [4]
  Family ID	F985	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Elizabeth (Katherine) Stewart,   d. Yes, date unknown
  Notes	Married: This marriage reported in Burkes Extinct Peerages 1883 but not in The Scots Peerage.
  Children	+ 1. Elizabeth Lindsay,   d. Yes, date unknown + 2. Alexander Lindsay, 2nd Earl of Crawford,   d. Yes, date unknown   3. Janet Lindsay,   d. Yes, date unknown   4. Matilda Lindsay,   d. Yes, date unknown + 5. Sir William Lindsay, of Carnie, Fifeshire,   d. Yes, date unknown
  Last Modified	24 Aug 2015
  Family ID	F1841	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  1 - Sir David Lindsay married Catherine a legitemate daughter of King Robert II and was created the first Earl of Crawfoed. His descendant, the twenty-nonth Earl of Crawford, is the prmier earl of Scotland today (2000) 2 - Robert [de Atholl 6th of Glenorchie] suffered another misfortune in 1392 when he lost a large portion of his land as the result of a clan fight. This fight occurred because his wife owned land in Angus which he was expecting to acquire, but it went to her nephew Sir David Lindsay instead. Arguments passed back and forth until a meeting was arranged to discuss the matter. It seems that only the Angus men turned up. Thereupon they sent a man to Rannoch to find out the reason for their absence and he 'disappeared'. Accusations followed, the result of which was that the fiery cross was sent round and a war party was gathered together. A fearsome band it was because not only did it contain the men of Rannoch but also, Duncan Stewart, the dreaded son of the dreaded Wolf of Badenoch was with them. He and the young Donnachaidh chiefs (Robert was too old to go himself) swept into Angus and laid the country waste. Fierce they must have looked as they swept in with their enormous two-handed claymores nearly as big as themselves. Sir David Lindsay himself was wounded by one. He had a dying Rannoch man pinned to the ground with his lance but this man had enough strength to cut through Lindsay's steel boot to the bone. On their way home the Glenorchie men were pursued by the Angus men who were said to be on horseback and to be wearing chain mail. But in spite of that the Angus men [Lindsays] were cut to pieces in Strathardle and the Rannoch men returned victorious. However, the Crown decided to punish them and the Chief lost his Aulich lands in the north of Rannoch. [http://www.visitdunkeld.com/clan-robertson.htm ]

  
  

• Sources

  [S484] The Lineage of the Royal Princes of England. [S474] Colquoun_Cunningham.ged, Jamie Vans. [S114] Oxford University Press, (Oxford University Press). [S73] Burke's Landed Gentry 2001, Peter Beauclerk Dewar,, (2001.).