Background
He was born about 1490. His place of birth is unknown. He was the son of David Lyndsay of the Mount.
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He was born about 1490. His place of birth is unknown. He was the son of David Lyndsay of the Mount.
His early education are unknown, but it is known that he attended the University of St Andrews.
Entering the royal service, he was appointed usher to the infant prince James, born in 1512. He was dismissed from court when his pupil, then James V, fell into the hands of the Douglas faction in 1524; but he was restored to his place in 1528. Lindsay was chief herald from about 1530, and Lyon king of arms from 1542 until his death. Most of his poetry was written during the years of favor at court, and it is, in form and style, firmly set in established tradition.
His work includes The Dreme (c. 1528), a vision of the desperate state of the commonwealth with a charming epistle to the king; The Testament and Complaynt of our Soverane Lordis Papyngo (1530), a blend of satire and morality in the fiction of the dying testament of the king's parrot; The Historie of Ane Nobill and Vailyeand Squyer, William Meldrum (after 1550), a spirited piece of biographie romancéeromancee in the chivalric convention; Ane Dialog Betuix Experience and ane Courteour of the Miserabill Estait of the World (c. 1553), commonly known as The Monarche, a grave universal history in verse from the Creation to the fifth empire (i. e. , the papacy); the huge play, Ane Satyre of the Thrie Estaits (1540, 1552), which is the only complete Scottish morality play; and a number of shorter pieces. Ane Satyre deals boldly with the central issues of the day in religion and politics, in a style ranging from exalted rhetoric to colloquial comedy, setting out the panorama of Scottish life before us. It was revived at the Edinburgh Festival in 1948, 1949, and 1959.
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There is no evidence that he abjured Catholicism; yet his leading purpose was the exposure of its errors and abuses.
In 1522 he married Janet Douglas, a court seamstress.