Elizabeth Stewart, Countess of Crawford
| Elizabeth of Scotland | |
|---|---|
| Spouse | David Lindsay, 1st Earl of Crawford |
| Father | Robert II of Scotland |
| Mother | Euphemia de Ross |
Elizabeth Stewart, Princess of Scotland was the daughter of Robert II of Scotland and Euphemia de Ross.[1]
Elizabeth was born between 1356 and 1370, well after her parents' marriage on 2 May 1355.
Her brothers were David Stewart, Earl of Strathearn and Walter Stewart, Earl of Atholl, and her half-brother was Robert III of Scotland.[2] Her sister was Egidia Stewart, who married William Douglas of Nithsdale.[3]
She married David Lindsay, 1st Earl of Crawford on 22 February 1375.[2] Her dowry was the barony of Strathnairn in Inverness-shire. In 1398, her father granted Lindsay the title of 1st Earl of Crawford. Elizabeth was styled as Countess of Crawford following the grant.
They had seven, possibly eight, children:
- Gerard Lindsay (d. before 1421)
- Ingram Lindsay, Bishop of Aberdeen (d. 1458)
- Marjorie Lindsay, married Sir William Douglas. They were parents of Catherine Douglas,[4] the Scottish noblewoman who tried to prevent the assassination of King James I of Scotland in 1437.[5]
- Alexander Lindsay, 2nd Earl of Crawford (c. 1387–1438); married Marjory of Dunbar and had issue.
- David Lindsay, Lord of Newdosk (1407–?); he became a priest.
- Elizabeth Lindsay; she married Sir Robert Keith.
- Elizabeth Lindsay (1407–?); married Robert Erskine, 1st Lord Erskine; she may have been confused with her sister of the same name, and it is possible that they were one and the same person.
- Isabella Lindsay (1407–?), married Sir John Maxwell of Pollok, and had issue.
They presumably lived at Crawford Castle.
References
- ^ Cokayne, George Edward (1910). The complete peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom : extant, extinct, or dormant. Harold B. Lee Library. London : The St. Catherine Press, ltd. p. 509.
- ^ a b Weir, Alison (18 April 2011). Britain's Royal Families: The Complete Genealogy. Random House. p. 226. ISBN 978-1-4464-4911-0.
- ^ "Douglas, Sir William, lord of Nithsdale (c. 1360–1391), soldier". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. 2004. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/7925. Retrieved 1 May 2025. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ Paul, James Balfour (1904). The Scots peerage; founded on Wood's edition of Sir Robert Douglas's peerage of Scotland; containing an historical and genealogical account of the nobility of that kingdom. Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center. Edinburgh : D. Douglas. p. 16.
- ^ Marshall, Rosalind Kay (2003). Scottish Queens, 1034-1714. Tuckwell. p. 52. ISBN 978-1-86232-271-4.