Ludovic Lindsay, 16th Earl of Crawford (1600–1652), was a Scottish landowner and

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. He was the son of

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and Helen Chisholm. In 1633-1634 Lindsay served the

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and commanded a unit composed partially of Scotsmen during the Muscovite campaigns. In 1636-1638 he led the same unit in service of

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against the French in

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. Lindsay took part in the strange plot of 1641 called The Incident. Having joined King Charles I at

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in 1642, he fought at the

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, at the Battle of Newbury and elsewhere during the

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; in 1644, just after the

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, the Scots Parliament declared he had forfeited his earldom, and, following the lines laid down when this was regranted in 1642, it was given to John Lindsay, 1st Earl of Lindsay. Ludovic was taken prisoner at

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in 1644, following the seven-month Siege of Newcastle, and was condemned to death, but the sentence was not carried out, and in 1645 he was released by Montrose, under whom he served until the surrender of the King at

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. Later he was in Ireland and in Spain and he died, probably in France, in 1652. At the death of Ludovic Lindsay, the title

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was passed, despite senior heirs, to his cousin, John Lindsay, who had already been created Earl of Lindsay. The earldoms of Crawford and Lindsay continued to be united until

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, (6th Earl of Lindsay) died unmarried in January 1808.

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Members of the Parliament of Scotland 1639–1641 17th-century Scottish peers