William de Lindsay, Canon of Glasgow

William de LINDSAY Canon of Glasgow 1 was born 1295 in Crawford, Lanarkshire, Scotland. He died Jan 1339 in Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland.

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

• https://freepages.rootsweb.com/~hwbradley/genealogy/aqwg1788.htm#49482

1. https://freepages.rootsweb.com/~hwbradley/genealogy/aqwc1788.htm#54... cites
   1. 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.