[2]: 236 Ignacio-Miguel Pascual-Valderrama and Joaquín Pérez-Pariente place Lindsay in the city of Poitiers from 1608 to 1609 using manuscripts from his book collection.
[citation needed] He had one son, Alexander, later the first Earl of Balcarres,[2]: 236 and a daughter Sophia, who died in childbirth following her marriage to Robert Moray.
[citation needed] Lindsay's private library was "one of the largest in early modern Scotland",[2]: 234 estimated to contain around 1000 to 1200 works.
[2]: 242 Poet William Drummond of Hawthornden wrote in a letter that it was difficult to find Lindsay a book which he did not already have.
[2]: 237 It was largely destroyed or dispersed after his death in 1641, with a small remainder being owned by the Earl of Crawford.