David Lindsay, 9th Earl of Crawford (died 10 September 1558) was a Scottish peer and Member of Parliament.
First known as David Lindsay of Edzell, he inherited the Earldom from David Lindsay, 8th Earl of Crawford by nomination. His second wife was Katherine Campbell, Countess of Crawford. They married before November 1550 and they had seven children.
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Succession
He was succeeded as Earl of Crawford by the 8th Earl's grandson David Lindsay, 10th Earl of Crawford. The 8th Earl's son, Alexander Lindsay, Master of Crawford, the "Wicked Master", tried to kill his father in 1537, and so was disinherited and died in 1542. The 8th Earl chose who would succeed him to the Earldom of Crawford – David Lindsay of Edzell, a distant cousin who was descended from the 3rd Earl. James V set a penalty of 100,000 merks for this transaction, so that earldom would come back to the crown. The 9th Earl, Lindsay of Edzell, then chose to leave the earldom, not to his own sons, but to the son of the Wicked Master of Crawford, another David Lindsay. So the 8th earl's grandson became Master of Crawford in 1546. A modern historian Jamie Cameron argued that this outcome was envisaged by James V when he set the penalty, so that the heirs of the Wicked Master were not excluded from the earldom. The sequence of events and size of the penalty has been used by other writers as evidence of the greed of James V and Regent Arran.
Family
He married, firstly, Janet Gray, daughter of Patrick Gray, Master of Gray, and Annabella Forbes, before 12 June 1535.
