Lady Elizabeth Lindsay of Crawford

Not to be confused with her sister Lady Isabella Lindsay who married Sir John Maxwell, 4th of Pollok.

Elizabeth Lindsay married Sir Henry Preston of Fyvie and had two daughters:

- Mariota Marjory Preston - unknown Preston

Most sources say that Elizabeth Lindsay married Henry Preston, though the Peerage mentions that Elizabeth Lindsay married Sir John de Maxwell. Whereas the source below mentions that Elizabeth's sister Isabella married Sir John de Maxwell.

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He [Sir James Lindsay] married Egidia, daughter of Walter, Steward of Scotland, and half-sister of King Robert II. A papal dispensation for this marriage was granted at Avigon 3 Ides of April 1346, which describes the spouses as within the third and fourth degree on the father?s side, and in the fourth degree on the mother?s. A strong inference thus arises that Sir James? grandmother, wife of Sir Alexander, was daughter to the Steward.

Lady Egidia de Lindsay, as she was always afterwards styled, was married secondly, after October 1357, to Sir Hugh of Eglinton ..., and thirdly (contract October 1378), to sir James Douglas of Dalkeith.

Sir James and Egidia had issue:

1. Sir James, only son and heir. 2. Isobel, married before 13 July 1369, to Sir John de Maxwell, who survived her.

3. Elizabeth, married to Sir Henry de Prestoun.

Source: THE SCOTS PEERAGE, ed. by Sir James Balfour Paul, Vol III, Edinburgh, 1906, p. 11.
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Elizabeth de Lindsay, married Henry de Preston (or Prestoun), Knt. They had two daughters:

Marion (wife of Alexander Chisholm and John Forbes, Knight.) and _____ (wife of _____Meldrum).

In 1390, for the ransom of Ralph de Percy and for his services to the king, King Robert III gave and confirmed to him [Preston] the lands and barony of Formartine, Aberdeenshire, together with the Castle and manor of Fyvie, and other lands on the resignation of her brother, James de Lindsay, Knt.

In 1403 Henry de Preston reached agreement with Margaret de Lindsay, widow of Thomas Colville, Knt., and elder daughter of James de Lindsay, Knt., of Buchan regarding Fivie Castle.

His wife, Elizabeth was living about 1 Sep 1405.

Sir Henry de Preston was living in 1413.

Source: MAGNA CARTA ANCESTRY, by Douglas Richardson, ed. by Kimball G. Everingham, Salt Lake City, Utah, p. 537.
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He married Elizabeth Lindsay, and built the tower of Fyvie Castle which by his name. He died about 1433, leaving two daughters, co-heiresses, who shared between them the Thanage of Fermartyn. The one, Mariote Preston, was married to Sir John Forbes, son of Sir John Forbes, Knight, and on July 6, 1420 she as a daughter of one of the heiresses of Sir Henry Preston, Knight of Fermartin, granted a charter to the said Sir John on marriage of one half of the thanage of Fermartyn. This part is called Tolquhon, where Mariote?s descendants were for many generations ... .

Fyvie, the other portion of Fermartyn, containing Fyvie Castle came by the marriage of the other co-heiress to Alexander Meldrum of the family of Meldrum of Meldrum, descended of Philip de Fedart, who flourished in the neighbourhood of Meldrum in the 13th century ... .

Source: THE THANAGE OF FERMARTYN by William Temple, Aberdeen, 1894, p. 22.