Sir William de Lindsay of Lamberton

Biography

From The Scots Peerage (Vol. 3, page 4-5) < GoogleBooks >

SIR WILLIAM DE LINDSAY, Lord of Lamberton, Sheriff of Berwickshire, witnessed a charter of King Alexander as William, son of Walter de Lindsay. He also held Molesworth and Caldecote of the earldom of Huntingdon.' He was ambassador to England 1237, and party, as a baron, to the treaty between Alexander II. and Henry III. in 1244.9

He married, about 1220, Alicia, daughter of William de Lancaster, Lord of Kendal, by Agnes de Brus, co-heiress with Helewise, wife of Peter de Brus, 10 of her brother William de Lancaster," and died about 1247.

Family

From http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~hwbradley/aqwg966.htm#54324

They had the following children:

• F i Eve de LINDSAY was born 1224 and died 1259. Seen as “married Sir John "The Red" COMYN.” (??)
• M ii Sir Walter de LINDSAY Knight was born 1229 and died 2 Nov 1271. Married Christiana.
• F iii Margaret de LINDSAY was born 1234 and died 1274. married Sir David de LINDSAY Knight on 1255 in Breneville, Ayrshire, Scotland.

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Notes

Norman Settlement: lll. - Barony of Kendal.

Gilbert FitzReinfrid and Helwise, his wife, had one son, William, who took his mother's name and called himself William de Lancaster; he married Agnes de Brus, and died without issue. He had three sisters: Helwise, who married Peter de Brus of Skelton; Alice, who married William de Lindesay, and Serota, who married Alan de Multon, and dying without issue goes out of the story. The barony of Kendal was thus early divided into two moieties, one of which was " heired " by the De Bruses and the other by the De Lindesays. The descent of these moieties we must now briefly trace, leaving the curious in the minutiae of pedigrees to refer for further information to Nicolson and Bum, or Hodgson. The moiety inherited by the elder sister, Helwise, became presently further subdivided into two quarters, known for reasons which will appear presently as the Marquis and Lumley Fees. The moiety inherited by the younger sister, Alice, remained more entire, and acquired the name of the Richmond Fee ; we will take it first.

Alice de Lancaster married William Lindesay, and carried her moiety into that family; including her husband, four De Lindesays in direct succession enjoyed it, the last of whom, also named William, left an only daughter, Christian, married to an alien, Ingelram de Guisnes, Lord of Coucy in France ; by him she had two sons: William the elder, born in France, and therefore an alien incapable of inheriting landed estates in England; and Ingelram the younger, born in England, but who died without issue; this moiety of the barony of Kendal therefore escheated to the Crown.

Source: Ferguson’s “… A History of Westmorland (1894), page 118-119. < Archive.Org >

Parishes: Molesworth - Manor

… The subtenancy in 1086 was held of the Countess Judith by Eustace the Sheriff. (fn. 9) From him it seems to have passed early in the 12th century to Walter L'Engleis, and by the marriage of his sister with Walter (?) de Lindsey (Lindesei) it descended in that family. (fn. 10) Walter apparently had a son Walter de Lindsey of Earlstown in Lauderdale, who granted the church of Earlstown to the Abbey of Kelso for the soul of Walter, his uncle, about 1159. (fn. 11) His brother William, son of Walter de Lindsey I, between 1156 and 1166 bestowed on Chicksand Priory (Beds), for the health of his father and for the souls of his mother and of Walter L'Engleis, 160 acres in Molesworth and common of pasture for twenty score sheep and 24 beasts. (fn. 12) The grant was attested by the donor's father, Walter, and this and other grants in Molesworth made by William de Lindsey and Walter, his brother, were confirmed to Chicksand by Henry II between 1163 and 1166. (fn. 13) Walter appears to have succeeded his brother William about 1165, when he paid £20 for the right of his lands in Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire. (fn. 14) Richard de Lindsey, said by Dr. Farrer to be Walter's successor, may have been his son, who was succeeded by a brother Walter, as in 1201 Walter warranted the charter which Richard had made to Crowland Abbey. Walter attested an agreement in 1213, but in 1216 the lands late of Walter de Lindsey in Molesworth were committed to Roger de Millers, presumably during the minority of the heir. Sir Walter de Lindsey, knt., probably, from the dates, son and heir of the last named Walter, presented to the church of Molesworth in 1220, when he would have reached his majority. He seems to have died before 1230, before which year William de Lindsey, who, again it would appear from the dates, was a brother of Sir Walter, married Alice, sister and later co-heir of William de Lancaster, Baron of Kendal. In 1232 William de Lindsey brought an action against William, son of Hamel, as to half a hide, less 5 acres, of land in Molesworth and in 1235 presented to the church. (fn. 15) He was holding half a fee in Molesworth in 1242–3 of Isabella de Brus of the honour of Huntingdon. (fn. 16) William died before 1250, when the lands of his son and heir, Walter, were taken into the king's hands. (fn. 17) Walter, while still a minor aged 16, was returned as co-heir of his uncle William de Lancaster, Baron of Kendal, in 1246. (fn. 18) He was heavily burdened with the debts of his uncle, William de Lancaster, and died in 1271, leaving William, his son and heir, aged 21 years, (fn. 19) and a widow Christiana, who held dower in 1282. (fn. 20)

Source: 'Parishes: Molesworth', in A History of the County of Huntingdon: Volume 3, ed. William Page, Granville Proby and S Inskip Ladds (London, 1936), pp. 92-96. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/hunts/vol3/pp92-96 [accessed 23 September 2023].

References

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2. See http://www.multiwords.de/genealogy/lindsay01.htm
3. http://www.thepeerage.com/p23117.htm#i231163 cites
   1. [S37] BP2003 volume 1, page 950. See link for full details for this source. Hereinafter cited as. [S37]
4. The Scots Peerage (Vol. 3, page 4). < GoogleBooks > Children of William de Lindsay, lord of Lamberton (d. 1247) and his wife Alicia, daughter of William de Lancaster, are not listed.
5. https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/4:1:G9PS-RK2