STRACHAN, Geoffrey 1
- Born: About 1364
- Died: After 1424 1
Another name for Geoffrey was DE STRACHAN, Geoffrey.1
User ID: P765.
General Notes:
"..... when Donald (de Strachan) died in 1380, his son and heir (Geoffrey Strachan) was made a ward of John of Lindsay, a relative of the Earl of Crawford. (source needed)
In 1424, Geoffrey de Strachan (sp. Geffray Sterthaughyn), together with Master Alexander of Lindsay, and Master Ingram of Lindsay were all granted safe conduct by the English to visit Alexander of Lindsay, Earl of Crawford (Bain, rv, 963, 1051).
These were days when the only people one could trust were their kin, so it seems highly probable that Geoffrey was related to the Lindsays, Earl of Crawford.
We got a hint of this relationship when we read that Geoffrey was made the ward of John of Lindsay on the death of his father, Donald de Strachan, who in 1343 had been granted large estates by David II on his marriage to one Annabel, who may well have been a younger daughter or sister of the then Earl of Crawford, James of Lindsay, who 8 years later was to stand hostage for David II in England. When David was finally ransomed and re-ascended his throne in 1357, James Earl of Crawford was appointed Ambassador to England.
If Donald de Strachan was indeed the brother-in-law of the Earl of Lindsay, then his son, Geoffrey, would of course have been the old Earl's nephew, and the new Earl's cousin. What more natural then, when the new Earl was in his turn captured by the English, that his cousin, Geoffrey, should have accompanied his sons on their visit to him?"
from Donald Strachan, Baron of Monycabbock 1
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