Sir David Lindsay of Edzell (-15 October 1610)

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Parents
Father:1Sir David Lindsay of Edzell (-20 September 1558), 9. Earl of Crawford
Mother:2Catherine Campbell (-1 October 1578)
Spouses and relationship events
Married:31570Helen Lindsay (-December 1579)
Contract dated March 1570.
Married:4around 1585Isabel Forbes (-)
Marriage contract dated 1 December 1585 and registered 5 December 1588.
Children
Children with Helen Lindsay:
David Lindsay of Edzell (-December 1646)5
John Lindsay (-)6
Alexander Lindsay of Canterland (-before 15 February 1631)7
Margaret Lindsay (-9 July 1614)8
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Events
Died:915 October 1610
Personal Info
He succeeded his father as baron of Glenesk 10 September 1558, being then a minor. He and his brother John were sent to be educated in France, but on account of the troubles were removed to Cambridge. He had permission to go again to France in 1582. He was appointed Justiciary of Glenesk 21 September 1586, a Senator Extraordinary of the College of Justice in the same year, and 2 March 1597 (after the death of his brother) a Lord Ordinary, styled Lord Edzell. Privy Councillor 16 November 1598. He obtained royal letters erecting Edzell, otherwise Sclaitfurd, a burgh of barony 24 December 1591. He sat as a baron in the Conventions of Estates 1597-99.10
Sir David, who was knighted, occupied a prominent position, and had a large correspondence with conspicuous persons, which is preserved in the Earl of Crawford's muniment room.11
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1 Sir James Balfour Paul, Lord Lyon King of Arms, The Scots Peerage Founded on Wood's Edition of Sir Robert Douglas's Peerage of Scotland Containing an Historical and Genealogical Account of the Nobility of that Kingdom, volume III: (Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1906), Crawford, p. 27-29, IX David Lindsay.
2 Ibid
3 Sir James Balfour Paul, Lord Lyon King of Arms, The Scots Peerage Founded on Wood's Edition of Sir Robert Douglas's Peerage of Scotland Containing an Historical and Genealogical Account of the Nobility of that Kingdom, volume III: (Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1906), Crawford, p. 29-30, X David Lindsay.
4 Sir James Balfour Paul, Lord Lyon King of Arms, The Scots Peerage Founded on Wood's Edition of Sir Robert Douglas's Peerage of Scotland Containing an Historical and Genealogical Account of the Nobility of that Kingdom, Volume I: (: David Douglas, 1904), Balcarres, p. 513-14, David Lindsay.
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