Sir Alexander Lindsay

Abt 1329 - 1381  (~ 52 years)

• Name	Sir Alexander Lindsay  [1]
  Born	Abt 1329
  Gender	Male
  Occupation	Began life as squire to his cousin Thomas Stewart, Earl of Angus
  Occupation	Knight Banneret
  Occupation	Lord of Glenesk
  Occupation	1369
  	Was party to a truce with England as "chevalier et baron"
  Occupation	1371-1373
  	Sealed with his nephew the settlements of the Crown
  Occupation	1378
  	Justiciar
  Died	Oct 1381	Candia, Crete
  Occupation	4 Dec 1381
  	Obtained a passport entitling him to pass through England to the Holy Land (on which pilgrimage he died)
  Property	He acquired Glenesk by marriage with the daughter of Sir John Stirling of Edzell
  Property	Inherited his mothers lands in Angus and acquired some of the baronies allotted to his aunt Margaret Abernethy
  Person ID	I18302	Godbout
  Last Modified	18 Apr 2017

  
  

  Father	Sir David de Lindsay,   b. Aft 1290,   d. 13 Oct 1357  (Age ~ 66 years)
  Mother	Maria de Abernethy,   b. Abt 1300
  Married	28 Nov 1324
  Family ID	F9857	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Catherine Stirling,   d. Bef 1378
  Married	1358
  Children	1. David Lindsay,   b. Abt 1359,   d. Feb 1407, Finhaven Castle (Angus), Scotland  (Age ~ 48 years)
  Last Modified	18 Apr 2017
  Family ID	F9858	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Sources

  [S7] The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, George Edward Cokayne; Vicary Gibbs, H. A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand & Howard de Walden, editors, (Reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), Volume III, p. 507.