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Lord Spynie
Lord Spynie is a title in the Peerage of Scotland. It was created on 4 November 1590 for Sir Alexander Lindsay, younger son of David Lindsay, 10th Earl of Crawford. The title became dormant on the death of the third Lord in 1671. (See Earl of Crawford for earlier history of the family). Lords Spynie (1590) *Alexander Lindsay, 1st Lord Spynie (d. 1607) *Alexander Lindsay, 2nd Lord Spynie (d. 1646) * George Lindsay, 3rd Lord Spynie (d. 1671) See also *Earl of Crawford * Earl of Balcarres *Earl of Lindsay *Lindsay Baronets References * Notes Dormant lordships of Parliament Spynie Spynie was a seaport, burgh and ancient parish in Moray, Scotland, that survives as a small hamlet and civil parish. It is the location of the ruins of Spynie Palace, which was the principal residence of the Bishops of Moray between the 12th and ... Noble titles created in 1590 {{Scotland-stub ...
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Earl Of Crawford
Earl of Crawford is one of the most ancient extant titles in Great Britain, having been created in the Peerage of Scotland for Sir David Lindsay in 1398. It is the premier earldom recorded on the Union Roll. Early history Sir David Lindsay, who married Elizabeth Stewart, Countess of Crawford, a daughter of Robert II, was the 10th baron of Crawford, Lanarkshire. In 1398 he was given the title of Earl of Crawford, along with Crawford Castle, by Robert. The title descended to the first Earl's descendants without much incident, until the death of David Lindsay, 8th Earl of Crawford, in 1542. The eighth Earl had a son, Alexander, commonly called the ''Wicked Master'', who frequently quarrelled with his father and even tried to murder him. The Wicked Master was sentenced to death for his crime, and the eighth Earl conveyed his title to a cousin, also called David Lindsay, a descendant of the third Earl of Crawford, and excluded from the succession all of the Wicked Master's descenda ...
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Alexander Lindsay, 1st Lord Spynie
Alexander Lindsay, 1st Lord Spynie (died 5 June 1607) was a Scottish nobleman. His death is the subject of the ballad ''Lord Spynie''. Early life Lindsay was the fourth son of David Lindsay, 10th Earl of Crawford, by his wife Margaret Beaton, daughter of Cardinal Beaton, and was a younger brother of David Lindsay, 11th Earl of Crawford. At an early age he became one of the favourites of James VI of Scotland, and was chosen to be vice-chamberlain of his household. Helen Huntar, the wife of Alan Lentroun in St Andrews, was said to have committed adultery with Lindsay and his brother, David Lindsay, 11th Earl of Crawford. Courtier In October 1589 he accompanied the king when he went to Denmark to bring home his bride, Anne of Denmark. He lent a thousand crowns to the king, who promised on his return "to make him a lord", and wrote him a note to effect at the castle of Kronborg. On 6 May 1590, therefore, he received a charter of Spynie and other lands belonging to the see of Mor ...
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Alexander Lindsay, 2nd Lord Spynie
Alexander Lindsay, 2nd Lord Spynie (died March 1646) was a Scottish nobleman and soldier of fortune. Life He was the eldest son of Alexander Lindsay, 1st Lord Spynie, by his wife Jean Lyon, and was still a minor at the time of his father's murder in 1607. When, in 1609, the trial of his father's murderer was not proceeded with on account of the absence of a prosecutor, a protest was made on his behalf and that of the other infant children, that their ultimate right of prosecution should not be invalidated. Spynie, however, after he came of age, agreed to waive his right of prosecution, when Lindsay of Edzell, the murderer, affirmed on oath that the slaughter was accidental, and undertook to pay a sum of eight thousand merks, and make over to him and his sister the lands of Garlobank, Perthshire. Edzell, on 7 March 1617, obtained a remission for the slaughter under the great seal. Spynie was one of the Scottish lords who attended the funeral of James VI and I in Westminster ...
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George Lindsay, 3rd Lord Spynie
George Lindsay, 3rd Lord Spynie (died 1671) was a Scottish nobleman. Life George Lindsay, 3rd Lord Spynie, was the second son of Alexander Lindsay, 2nd Lord Spynie, by his second wife, Lady Margaret Hay. He succeeded to the estates on the death of his father in 1646. A supporter of Charles I of Great Britain, Spynie opposed the surrender of the king to the English. As colonel of the Stirling and Clackmannan horse he took part in the 'engagement' for the rescue of the king from the English in 1648. On 20 December 1650 he was appointed one of the colonels of horse for Forfarshire. Taken prisoner at the battle of Worcester in 1651, Spynie was on 16 September committed to the Tower of London. He was excepted from Cromwell's Act of Grace in 1654, and on 5 May, he forfeited his estates at the Edinburgh Market Cross. Spynie was pardoned at the Restoration of 1660 and was reinstated in his possessions. On the death of Ludovic Lindsay, 16th Earl of Crawford, in 1666, he was served his he ...
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Earl Of Balcarres
Earl of Balcarres is a title in the Peerage of Scotland, created in 1651 for Alexander Lindsay, 2nd Lord Balcarres. Since 1848, the title has been held jointly with the Earldom of Crawford, and the holder is also the hereditary clan chief of Clan Lindsay. The first earl's father was created Lord Lindsay of Balcarres on 27 June 1633. He was the grandson of the 9th Earl of Crawford. The second Lord Lindsay succeeded his father in 1642. A prominent supporter of Charles I, he was further elevated as Earl of Balcarres and Lord Lindsay of Balneil in 1651. During the rule of Oliver Cromwell, the first earl died in exile in Breda in 1659. He was succeeded by Charles, his third but first surviving son, who in turn was succeeded by his younger brother, the third earl. In his youth, the third earl was a courtier of King Charles II after the restoration of the monarchy, but later became devoted to King James VII. He fled to Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye after the Glorious Revolution wh ...
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Earl Of Lindsay
Earl of Lindsay is a title in the Peerage of Scotland. It was created in 1633 for John Lindsay, 10th Lord Lindsay, who later inherited the ancient Earldom of Crawford. The two earldoms remained united until the death of the 22nd Earl of Crawford, also sixth Earl of Lindsay, in 1808. Then the earldom of Lindsay passed to David Lindsay, while the earldom of Crawford became dormant because no-one could prove a claim to the title until 1848. Both David, 7th Earl of Lindsay, and his successor Patrick, 8th Earl of Lindsay, died without sons, and the disputed claim over the earldom was resolved by the House of Lords in 1878 in favour of Sir John Trotter Bethune, 2nd Baronet. The subsidiary titles of the Earl are: Viscount of Garnock (created 1703), Lord Lindsay of The Byres (1445), Lord Parbroath (1633) and Lord Kilbirnie, Kingsburn and Drumry (1703), all in the Peerage of Scotland. The title Viscount Garnock is used as the courtesy title for the eldest son and heir to the Earl. The ...
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Lindsay Baronets
There have been three baronetcies held by people with the surname Lindsay, one in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia and two in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. One creation is extant. The Lindsay Baronetcy, of Evelick in the County of Perth, was created in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia on 15 April 1666 for Alexander Lindsay. The title became extinct on the death of the fifth Baronet in 1799. The Trotter, later Lindsay Baronetcy, of West Ville in the County of Lincoln, was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 4 September 1821 for Coutts Trotter, principal partner in Coutt's Bank, with remainder to the male issue of his daughter Anne. She was the wife of Lieutenant-General Sir James Lindsay, son of the Hon. Robert Lindsay, second son of James Lindsay, 5th Earl of Balcarres. Their eldest son, Coutts, succeeded as second Baronet according to the special remainder on his maternal grandfather's death in 1837. He fought in the Crimean War and served as a Deputy Lieute ...
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Dormant Lordships Of Parliament
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Clan Lindsay
Clan Lindsay is a Scottish clan of the Scottish Lowlands. History Origins of the clan The Lindsays were prominent in both England and Scotland from the late 11th century. The name most likely derives from the region of Lindsey in England (the name of which comes from the Old English for "island of Lincoln"), from where the family originated. In Domesday Book, Sir Baldric de Lindsay of Hemingby is recorded as holding a number of estates in Lindsey in 1086. Sir Baldric's sons, Sir Walter and William de Lindsay accompanied David of Scotland, Earl of Huntingdon, to claim his throne. William's son, William de Lindsay, sat in the Parliament of 1164 and was later a justiciar. William Lindsay held the lands of Crawford and Luffness. The chief's premier title was later Earl of Crawford. His son, Sir William Lindsay, who sat in Parliament as Baron of Luffness in East Lothian, married Alice de Limesi, and from their younger son Sir William Lindsay, dapifer to the High Steward of Scotland, ...
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