Beatrice Lindsay of Crawford

Biography

Beatrice de LINDSAY, daughter of Sir Alexander de LINDSAY Knight and N.N. Stewart [1, 2, 3, 4, 5] was born 1298 in Crawford, Lanarkshire, Scotland. She died 1352 in Erskine, Renfrewshire, Scotland.

Beatrice married Sir Archibald DOUGLAS Knight on 1314 in Douglas, Lanarkshire, Scotland.

They had the following children:

• F i Eleanor DOUGLAS was born 1317.
• M ii John DOUGLAS 1 was born 1319 in Douglas, Lanarkshire, Scotland. He died 1339 in Douglas, Lanarkshire, Scotland.
• M iii Sir William DOUGLAS Earl of Douglas was born 1321 and died May 1384

Beatrice married Sir Robert ERSKINE Knight on 1334 in Erskine, Renfrewshire, Scotland.

They had the following children:

• M i Sir Thomas ERSKINE Knight was born 1338 and died May 1404.
• M ii Sir Nicholas ERSKINE Knight was born 1341 and died Dec 1406.

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BEATRICE Lindsay m firstly Sir ARCHIBALD Douglas, son of Sir WILLIAM Douglas of Douglas & his first wife Elizabeth Stewart (-killed in battle Halidon Hill 19 Jul 1333). m secondly Sir ROBERT Erskine of Erskine, son of ---.

Origins

From The Scots Peerage, Vol. 3. “Lindsay, Earl of Crawford.” Page 9. < Archive.Org >

The five children of Alexander Lindsay and his wife were:

1. Sir David de Lindsay, Lord Crawford, Custodian of Berwick & Edinburgh Castle+ d. 1355. Married Maria Abernethy, widow of Andrew de Leschelyn (Leslie) and daughter (co-heiress with her sister Margaret, Countess of Angus) of Sir Alexander de Abernethy.
2. Alexander,11 who was imprisoned at Carlisle, 1308-1314, became a knight banneret, and was ancestor, as alleged, of the Lindsays of Ormiston, afterwards represented by Cockburn of Langton.
3. Reginald, prisoner at Carlisle with his brother.
4. William, Rector of Ayr,1 and Chamberlain of Scotland in 1317, whose close connection with the house of Crawford2 suggests this affiliation. He died before 5 Kal. January 1339.
5. Beatrix, d. b 1352, married, first, to Sir Archibald Douglas, and was mother of the first Earl of Douglas ; 3 secondly, to Sir Robert Erskine of Erskine, Great Chamberlain of Scotland.4

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References

1. http://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p114.htm#i...
2. https://freepages.rootsweb.com/~hwbradley/genealogy/aqwc1788.htm#54... cites
   1. 1Cokayne, George Edward, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct, or Dormant (London: St. Catherine Press, 1910.), 4:430, Los Angeles Public Library, 929.721 C682.
   2. Johnston, George Harvey, The Heraldry of the Douglases: With Notes on All the Males of the Family, Descriptions of the Arms, Plates, and Pedigrees (Edinburgh: W. & A.K. Johnston, 1907.), p. 14, Family History Library, 929.241 D745j.
   3. Paul, James Balfour, The Scots Peerage (Edinburgh: D. Douglas, 1904-14.), 3:141, Los Angeles Public Library, 929.72 P324.
   4. Cokayne, G., CP, 3:57.
   5. Linzee, John William, The Lindeseie and Limesi Families of Great Britain (Boston, Massachusetts: The Fort Hill Press, 1917.), pp. 293, 301, Family History Library, 929.242 L659L.
3. < Stirnet - ‘Lindsay01’ >