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William the Conqueror ConnectionLast update to this page: July 14, 2009 The connection detailed below between William the Conqueror and the Lindsay surname has been documented and published extensively going back as early as 1444. In September 2002, after significant research, Mr. Graeme Wall, a genealogist of Southampton, England, forwarded me his challenge to this "Lindsay connection to William the Conqueror". He stated ....... "Gundred [see item #1 below], Countess de Warenne, was not the daughter of William, she was the sister of Gerbod, Earl of Chester. The allusion to Gundred being William`s daughter, is a later interpolation into a charter of 1081-1083: Confirmation by William I to the monastery of St. Pancras at Lewes, for the souls of Edward the Confessor and others, including William of Warenne and his wife Gundred, of the manor of [West] Walton in Norfolk. This error was later expanded in a narrative pedigree contained in a Lewes cartulary of 1444." Mr. Wall further states ...."Further down, there is some doubt as to whether William Lindsay`s wife Marjory [see item #5 below] was in fact the widow of Gilchrist of Angus, as he (Gilchrist) died between 1207-11 and William Lindsay`s son William appears to have been born about 1182. If you have access to 'The American Genealogist' issue 75, No 4 (October 2000), there is apparently (I haven`t been able to access a copy this side of the Atlantic) an article: "The Pinckney Claim to Scotland" by Charles M. Hansen, FASG which, inter alia, discusses this issue." We thank Mr. Graeme Wall for his willingness to share his research with us. If there is anyone in the global community who recognizes any additional errors in this lineage, please notify Ron Lindsay with the details . If someone knows and can delineate yet another Lindsay surname connection to William the Conqueror, please notify Ron Lindsay if you would like to share it.
William
was the illegitimate son of Robert I, Duke of Normandy and Herleva of Falasia.
William became King William I of England in 1066.
Sir
David Lindsay of Glenesk was created Earl of Crawford by his brother-in-law,
Robert III, on the 21st of April 1398 in the Parliament held at Perth.
This act was accompanied by the creation of the Lindsay herald.
Though the Lindsays were now situated in Glenesk, Crawford was their
principal fief and remained so until the 5th Earl resigned the superiority of
the various lands in the barony of Crawford. The Earl of Crawford established
the main dwelling place of his family at the castle of Finhaven in Angus. The
urban dwelling of the House of Crawford was in Dundee.
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