Descendants of Walter de LINDISSI Sir
Notes
SOURCE:Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, page 545
!NOTES:Second Earl Of Crawford. "Lord Lindsay, knighted at the coronation of King James, 21 May, 1424, was a hostage for King James, and imprisoned in the Tower of London 1424. He obtained a new entrail of his comitatus 1421, an early example of a royal charter containing a nameand arms clause."
SOURCE:Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, page 545
56. David LINDSAY [Baron Lindsay]
BIOGRAHPICAL MATERIAL: The earliest extant Lowland Scottish literature dates from the second half of the 14th century. The first writer of note was John Barbour, who wrote The Bruce (1376), a poem on the exploits of King Robert I the Bruce. Harry the Minstrel (Blind Harry, or Henry the Minstrel) continued the Barbour tradition of military epic by composing the heroic romance Sir William Wallace in the late 15th century. More prophetic of the sophisticated poetry that was to follow was
The Kingis Quair (The King's Book), attributed to King James I of Scotland. It contains possibly the finest major love poem of the 15th century and ushered in the great age of Scottish literature--the years 1425 to 1550. The leading figures--Robert Henryson, William Dunbar, Gavin Douglas, and Sir David Lindsay--were strongly influenced by the works of Geoffrey Chaucer, but their courtly romances and dream allegories show a distinctively ornamental use of language that has a rich etymological and idiomatic texture. The elaborate style of their poetry has been termed excessive and artificial, but they succeeded in enlarging the Scottish literary use of the vernacular and managed to combine elements of satire and fantasy with an ideal of poetic utterance and diction that marked the apogee of the national literature.- Encyclopedia Brittanica, 1997
