James Lindsay of Augsburg
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James Lindsay of AugsburgJames Lindsay (ca 1430 Scotland - ? Augsburg, Austria) was the sixth son of David Lindsay (? - 1446), 3rd Earl of Crawford and Marjory Ogilvy. James Lindsay accompanied Eleanor Stewart/Stuart, daughter of James I, King of Scotland, in 1449 to Austria where she married Sigismund (1427-1496) of Austria, a Habsburg Archduke of Austria and ruler of Tirol from 1446 to 1490. As a point of reference, James Lindsay's great grandfather, David Lindsay, 1st Earl of Crawford, married Elizabeth (Catherine) Stewart/Stuart, daughter of King Robert II of Scotland. It is also known that James Lindsay remained in Austria, after his journey there with Elizabeth Stewart, and married a local heiress and founded a prominent family referred to in Ausburg (south-central Germany, and capital of the Swabia administrative region of Bavaria) as Kraffter (Crawford). It is believed that the bride of James Lindsay was Magdalena von Esch, a descendant of the crusader, Gottfried von Esch. It is also believed that four great-grandsons of James Lindsay was ennobled by the Emperor Charles V in 1547 and admitted amongst the patricians of the city of Augsburg as so-called "Mehrer der Gesellschaft" or Patrons of Society. One of these great-grandsons, Hieronymus, is mentioned in an epitaph formerly in the Augsburg church of St. Anna. The genealogy of this Lindsay lineage is still being researched. If anyone has any knowledge of this Lindsay lineage, please send an e-mail response to Ron
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