DE LINDSAY, David of Crawford 1 2
User ID: W404. David married Mary ABERNETHY co-heiress, daughter of Sir Alexander ABERNETHY and Margaret de Menteith, 28 November 1324(papal dispensation).1 2 (Mary ABERNETHY co-heiress was born about 1297 and died before 19 November 1355 1.) Marriage Notes: He (Sir David De Lindsay) confirmed the charter to Newbattle of Sir Gerard de Lindsay in September 1327, and granted lands for the souls of himself and his wife.He founded a mass at Lindores for his wife before 19 November 1355, she being then buried there. He married Maria Abernethy, widow of Andrew de Leschelyn (Leslie) and daughter (co-heiress with her sister Margaret, Countess of Angus) of Sir Alexander de Abernethy, the dispensation for which marriage was granted on 28 November 1324, on the narrative that she and her previous husband were both related in the fourth degree to David de Lindsay of the diocese of Glasgow." |