Lord Alexander Lindsay Of Glenesk 
Alexander was born about 1329 in Crawford,Clydesdale,Lanarkshire,Scotland. Alexander's father was Lord David Lindsay Of Crawford and his mother was Heiress Mary Abernethy. His maternal grandfather was Lord Alexander Abernethy. He had two brothers named James and William. He was the second oldest of the three children. He had a half-brother and a half-sister, named Walter and Margaret. He died in October 1381 in Candia,Crete.1 General Notes
Sir Alexander de Lindsay, of Glenesk, Angus; succeeded his mother in her share of the Abernethy lands, Esquire to the Earl of Angus, knighted on 1368, Justiciary 1378; married 1st 1358 Catherine, daughter of Sir John Stirling of Edzell and heiress of Glenesk; married 2nd Marjory, niece of Robert III,m and died 1381 at Candia, Cyprus, on his way to the Holy Land. [Burke's Peerage]
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Local tradition says Catherine Stirling had a deformed brother known by the sobriquet of ‘Jackie Stirlin,' who was heir to the property. He was to marry the daughter of a neighbouring baron, but this union did not approve itself to Sir Alexander and his lady. Remonstrance proving of no avail, the laird was despatched at a place a little to the north of the Castle, and the body was buried in the family vault. The crime embittered the latter days of the Lord of Edzell, and he made atonement for the murderous deed of his youth by large gifts to the Church. He rebuilt the Church of Finhaven, and gifted it to the Cathedral of Brechin, then went on a pilgrimage to Palestine.
The prebendary had a stall in the choir of Brechin, and said mass daily for his safe conduct. Gifts to the Church and penance have ever been Rome's panacea for crimes, even of the blackest dye. We are told of a better way. The blood of Christ cleanseth from all sin."
Sir Alexander Lindsay profited little by his pilgrimage and the daily masses for his soul. They did not stay the hand of the avenging angel, he having struck the penitent down long before he reached Palestine.
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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- b.~ 1299 in Crawford,Clydesdale,Lanarkshire,Scotland d.<13 Oct 1355 in Crawford,Clydesdale,Lanarkshire,Scotland
- b.~ 1329 in Crawford,Clydesdale,Lanarkshire,Scotland d.Oct 1381 in Candia,Crete
- b.~ 1281 in Abernethy,Fifeshire,Scotland d.< 1317 in Abernethy,Fifeshire,Scotland
- b.~ 1298 in Abernethy,Fifeshire,Scotland d.<19 Nov 1355 in Lindores Abbey,Fifeshire,Scotland
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Alexander were married in a religious ceremony before 1360 in 1st husband 2nd wife.2
1 Burke's Peerage & Baronetage, 106th Edition, Charles Mosley Editor-in-Chief, 1999 @ 701
2 Burke's Peerage & Baronetage, 106th Edition, Charles Mosley Editor-in-Chief, 1999 @ 701
2 Burke's Peerage & Baronetage, 106th Edition, Charles Mosley Editor-in-Chief, 1999 @ 701
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