LINDSAY, Beatrice 1
User ID: Y691. Beatrice married Sir Archibald DOUGLAS Regent of Scotland, son of Sir William DOUGLAS 'Le Hardi', Lord of Douglas and Eleanor de Lovain.1 2 (Sir Archibald DOUGLAS Regent of Scotland was born before 1298 and died on 19 July 1333 in Battle of Halidon Hill, Berwick on Tweed, England 2.) Marriage Notes: "Beatrix, married, first, to Sir Archibald Douglas, and was mother of the first Earl of Douglas ; secondly, to Sir Robert Erskine of Erskine, Great Chamberlain of Scotland." Beatrice next married Sir Robert ERSKINE of that Ilk, High Chamberlain of Scotland, son of Sir William ERSKINE and Unknown, after July 1335.1 (Sir Robert ERSKINE of that Ilk, High Chamberlain of Scotland was born about 1302 and died in 1385 1.) Marriage Notes: "Sir Robert Erskine married, first, Beatrice Lindsay, daughter of Alexander Lindsay of Crawford, and widow of Sir Archibald Douglas, for a short time Regent of Scotland, who fell at Halidon Hill on 19 July 1333. It is not certain when the marriage took place, perhaps some time later, as she was apparently still a widow in July 1335, and she died before 1352" |
1 e-books, The Scots Peerage ed. Sir James Balfour Paul vol. 5 (1908).
2 e-books, The Scots Peerage ed. Sir James Balfour Paul vol. 3 (1906).
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