DE GOURLAY, William ¹

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  General Notes:

"Sir William Lindsay, youngest son of Sir David, Lord of Crawford, had a charter of the lands and barony of Byres, in East Lothian, on the resignation of his brother, Sir Alexander Lindsay of Glenesk, on 17 January 1365-66. He had charters under the Great Seal of the lands of Borthwykschelys, in the barony of Chamberlayne Newton in Roxburghshire, which had been forfeited by Laurence de Abernethy, and of all the lands in the tenement of Drem, Haddingtonshire, which belonged to Johanna de Erth of Walchton, and were resigned by William de Gourlay, her son, to him and his spouse, dated 27 December 1374. He is celebrated by Froissart as one of
the Enfants de Lindsay, and is said to have knighted the son of Saint Bridget of Sweden at the Holy Sepulchre."

from Scots Peerage (vol 5)

William married Daughter MURE, daughter of Sir William MURE of Abercorn and Unknown.¹ (Daughter MURE was born about 1342.)

  Marriage Notes:

"A further prolonged search resulted in thg finding of a two-line charter, rather obscurely indexed through a misspelling in The Great Seal Register, which records the gift by William Muir of his lands of Lochhouse, Linlithgow, with his daughters, to William son of Robert, and John of Reidheuch. There can be little doubt, therefore, that this charter supplies the evidence that Sir William Lindsay's second wife was the granddaughter of Sir William Mure."

from Hepburn Family ¹