David Lindsay, 3rd Earl of Crawford

David Lindsay, 3rd Earl of Crawford († January 24, 1446 at the Battle of Arbroath ) was the ruler of Scotland for the underage King James II. He belonged to the Lindsay clan from the Scottish Lowlands .

He was the son of Alexander Lindsay, 2nd Earl of Crawford and his wife Marjorie. He inherited his father in 1438 as Earl of Crawford .

Battle of Arbroath

In the Battle of Arbroath in early 1446, the Lindsay clan moved under David Lindsay's leadership with more than 1000 men. On the opposite side stood the Ogilvie clan , supported by the Oliphant clan , the Gordon clan , the Seton clan and the Forbes of Pitsligo clan .

David Lindsay rode between the two lines to negotiate a truce. A poorly instructed member of the Ogilvies, who thought this was the start of the Lindsay attack, hurled his spear at the earl, hit him in the mouth and killed him instantly. Then the battle began, which ended in favor of the Lindsays.

family

Crawford married Marjorie Ogilvie, daughter of Alexander Ogilvie of Auchterhouse. Your children were:

• Alexander Lindsay, 4th Earl of Crawford , known as "Tiger Earl" or "Earl Beardie"; ∞ Elizabeth Dunbar, of the Earls of March family ; her son was David Lindsay, 5th Earl of Crawford († 1495), who was appointed Duke of Montrose on May 18, 1488 .
• Walter of Beaufort and Edzell , called of Kinblethmont, got the baronies Arde and Bewfort in 1459, and the barony Panbridge (Panbride) in 1463; ∞ Sophia Livingston of the Livingston of Saltcoats family ; the marriage remained childless
• William Lindsay of Lekoquhy
• Sir John Lindsay, † 1452 at the Battle of Brechin
• James Lindsay, who emigrated to Austria
• Janet Lindsay, ∞ William Douglas, 6th Earl of Douglas , † 1440
• Elizabeth Lindsay, † before 1489; ∞ Sir Thomas Maule of Panmure, † after January 16, 1497/98 ( Le Riche (family) )

literature

• Alison Cathcart, David Ditchburn: Lindsay family, earls of Crawford (per c. 1380–1495), nobility . In: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography .
• John Anderson, James Balfour Paul: David, third Earl of Crawford . In: James Balfour Paul (Ed.): The Scots Peerage . tape 3 : Crawford – Falklands . David Douglas, Edinburgh 1906, p. 18–20 (English, Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
• Bernard Burke: A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire. 28th edition