Alexander Lindsay of Glenesk

[6] Upon his marriage to Catherine Stirling around 1358, he consolidated his already large maternal inheritance, with that of his wife, which would add to the extensive landholdings of the Earldom of Crawford in north-east Scotland and elsewhere.

[6] Lindsay was knighted before 1368,[citation needed] He was party to a truce with England as "Chevalier et Baron" in 1369.

[2][6] He had many safe-conducts from the English kings Edward III and Richard II, and on December 1381, he obtained a passport to travel through England on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land.

[2][a] They had children: Lindsay married secondly to Marjorie,[2] daughter to Sir John Stewart of Ralston, and niece to Robert II of Scotland.

He had dispensation for illegitimacy on taking Holy Orders, but as Sir Alexander Lindsay and his second wife must have been cousins James may have been their son.