Abigail Busch ReisingerCountess of Crawfurd-Lindsay
Baroness of Auchterutherstruther
The Much Honoured Countess of Crawfurd-Lindsay in the baronage of Scotland (Abigail Busch Reisinger of Crawfurd-Lindsay & of Auchterutherstruther, Countess of Crawfurd-Lindsay, Baroness of Auchterutherstruther)
father is Baron of Inneryne
Credentials
- • Letters Patent of Lord Lyon Blair, 30th May 2007, Public Register of All Arms and Bearings Vol 86 Folio 101, "Conform to Our Warrant of date 8 November 2004" (amended 9th February 2006), which "OFFICIALLY RECOGNISE" Abigail Busch Reisinger of Crawfurd-Lindsay and of Auchterutherstruther "in the NAME, STYLE and DIGNITY as … Feudal Countess of Crawfurd-Lindsay and Baroness of Auchterutherstruther", with chapeau, feudo-baronial mantle, badge and standard passing to her successors in right of the earldom, and a nobility clause. Petition of 1st April 2004; disposition of 23rd February 2004, recorded in the General Register of Sasines for Fife 2nd March 2004; infeft as at 8th November 2004. The word "feudal" is quoted as the patent uses it; the term has been defunct since 28 November 2004 (Lyon Court statement of 3 December 2008; Lord Lyon Sellar, Note in the Petition of the Baron of Cartsburn, 2009, "quondam feudal baronies").
- • The lands, earldom, lordship and barony of Crawfurd and Lindsay, comprehending the barony of Auchterutherstruther (erected a free barony in 1621, RMS VIII no. 1502), were erected together by Crown charter of 1st March 1648, ratified by Parliament 11th May 1648 (RPS 1648/3/234), which granted "the lands, earldom, lordship and barony of Crawford and Lindsay" and added "the name, style, title, honour and dignity of earl of Crawford Lindsay". Of the non-peerage earldoms on this Roll, Crawfurd-Lindsay is one of two erected as an earldom, lordship and barony in one unit.
- • Burke's Peerage, Revised Families (Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, updated 2025). Burke's is a finding aid; the Roll relies on the Letters Patent.
- • The Countess style follows the Letters Patent. She is the only present holder of a non-peerage earldom on this Roll whose own recognition in an earl's style by a Lord Lyon stands; the other recognitions of 2006–2007 were of previous holders who have since assigned. The double-barrelled form is not used by any extant peerage.
- • See the Association's paper: baronage.com/…/non-peerage-earldoms
Authentication
A note on terminology: “Scottish feudal barony” or “feudal title” is an incorrect, defunct historical term for extant barons. Baronies were feudal until 28 November 2004, when feudal baronies were abolished and the dignity of baron was retained — an extant barony is no longer “feudal”. The correct term is Scottish barony or Scottish baron (or baron, lord or earl in the Baronage of Scotland, collectively the minor barons of Scotland); never “feudal baron”. Why the term is defunct →
A barony pledged on the Roll of Scottish Barons is treated by the Roll as hereditary and not in commercio. A pledged barony later conveyed outside the family forfeits its recognition on the Roll in perpetuity. What “Hereditary on the Roll” means →