Ref:

"The Scottish Nation"- William Anderson, A. Fullarton & Co., Edinburgh, 1880

2I. THURSTANUS (LIVINGUS 1)

Thurstanus was a witness to the foundation charter of Holyrood House in 1128.

Holyrood Abbey

Issue-

Ref:

"The Scottish Nation"- William Anderson, A. Fullarton & Co., Edinburgh, 1880

3I. ALEXANDER (LIVINGUS 1, THURSTANUS 2)

Alexander was the first to assume the name of Livingstone and died at the end of the reign of King Alexander II.

Issue-

Ref:

"The Scottish Nation"- William Anderson, A. Fullarton & Co., Edinburgh, 1880

4I. WILLIAM (LIVINGUS 1, THURSTANUS 2, ALEXANDER 3)

Sir William acquired the lands of Gorgyn near Edinburgh and witnessed a charter from Malcolm, Earl of Lennox in 1270.

Issue-

Ref:

"The Scottish Nation"- William Anderson, A. Fullarton & Co., Edinburgh, 1880

5II. ARCHIBALD (LIVINGUS 1, THURSTANUS 2, ALEXANDER 3, WILLIAM 4)

Archibald swore allegience to Edward I in 1296.

Issue-

Ref:

"The Scottish Nation"- William Anderson, A. Fullarton & Co., Edinburgh, 1880

6I. ______ (LIVINGUS 1, THURSTANUS 2, ALEXANDER 3, WILLIAM 4, ARCHIBALD 5)

This is where things get muddy in the genealogy... Balfour-Paul states that the below William who married Christian was the son of William Livingstone, Lord of Drumry and Margaret; and grandson of Sir Andrew Livingstone, Sheriff of Lanarkshire and Elena. Anderson states that William was the grandson of Archibald. I have not seen any primary evidence concerning these folks so at this point William's ancestry remains a bit of a mystery.

Issue-

Ref:

The Scots Peerage- James Balfour Paul- Vol. V, pp. 423-4
"The Scottish Nation"- William Anderson, A. Fullarton & Co., Edinburgh, 1880

7I. WILLIAM (LIVINGUS 1, THURSTANUS 2, ALEXANDER 3, WILLIAM 4, ARCHIBALD 5, ______ 6)

m. CHRISTIAN CALLENDAR

William accompanied King David II on his expedition to England in 1346 and was taken prisoner at the battle of Durham 17 Oct. 1346. He was one of four commissioners appointed by the Estates of Scotland 17 Jan. 1356/7 to negociate with the English for the King's ransom. He had a grant from David II 10 July 1347 of the barony of Callendar which was forfeited by Patrick Callendar.

In 1359 Sir William Livingstone, Sheriff of Lanark reported to the treasury that he had received nothing from the Crown lands of Kilcadyow because they were in the hands of John Lindsay of Dunrod, by concession of Malcolm Fleming, Earl of Wigton, who had not right in the same except by permission of the King. William was ordered to take possession of the lands on behalf of His Majesty aand to account for the fermes.(1)

Ref:

(1) Chamberlain Rolls- Vol. I, p. 334

The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant-Cokayne et al., Ed., Alan Sutton Pub., Gloucester, 1910-1959- Vol. VIII, p. 90
The Scots Peerage- James Balfour Paul- Vol. V, pp. 423-4
"The Scottish Nation"- William Anderson, A. Fullarton & Co., Edinburgh, 1880

8II. WILLIAM (LIVINGUS 1, THURSTANUS 2, ALEXANDER 3, WILLIAM 4, ARCHIBALD 5, ______ 6, WILLIAM 7)

"The Scots Peerage" and "The Complete Peerage" state that John was the son of the above William and Christian and omits this William, however, given the dates I suspect that Anderson is correct in inserting this additional generation here.

Issue-

Ref:

"The Scottish Nation"- William Anderson, A. Fullarton & Co., Edinburgh, 1880

9I. JOHN (LIVINGUS 1, THURSTANUS 2, ALEXANDER 3, WILLIAM 4, ARCHIBALD 5, ______ 6, WILLIAM 7, WILLIAM 8)

m.1. _______ MENTIETH, d. of John Menteith
2. contract 15 Aug. 1381 Agnes Douglas
killed battle of Homildon Hill- 14 Sept. 1402

Homildon Hill

Sir John of Callendar was killed at the battle of Homildon Hill 14 Sept. 1402.

Issue- First three children by first wife, last child ?by second wife

Ref:

The Scots Peerage- James Balfour Paul- Vol. V, p. 184, 425-6; VI, pp. 348-9
"The Scottish Nation"- William Anderson, A. Fullarton & Co., Edinburgh, 1880

10I. ALEXANDER (LIVINGUS 1, THURSTANUS 2, ALEXANDER 3, WILLIAM 4, ARCHIBALD 5, ______ 6, WILLIAM 7, WILLIAM 8, JOHN 9)

m. _____ DUNDAS, d. of James Dundas of Dundas
d.c.1450

Sir Alexander received a safe-conduct on 23 Feb. to last until 30 Apr. 1424 as a hostage for King James I at Durham.(1) He was on the jury for the trial of Murdach, Duke of Albany in 1424.

Stirling Castle

After King James' assassination in 1437 he was appointed guardian of young King James II. The rival minister Sir William Crichton, Chancellor of Scotland kept young James in Edinburgh Castle and the Queen Mother had him sent to Stirling hidden in a chest where he was received by his legal guardian, Sir Alex. Alex then attacked the castle, but they soon reached an agreement. In 1439 Crichton imprisoned the Queen and later took the King, but another agreement was reached between he and Sir Alex and the King was given back to Alex's care and Alex then controlled the government.(2) In 1440 the Earl of Douglas, his brother David and his friend Fleming of Cumbernauld, were brought to Edinburgh castle at Alex's instigation by Crichton and beheaded. In 1445 when the Douglases were at the height of their power Sir Alex was denounced as a rebel and was captured the next year, but then released after paying a large sum. However, his younger son Alexander was tried and beheaded. In 1449 Alex was again in favor and was appointed Justiciary of Scotland and ambassador to England and on 18 Sept. he signed a prorogation of the truce till 19 Nov. 1449.(3) By the end of the year he was out of favor again and was imprisoned at Blackness.

Blackness Castle

Issue-

Ref:

(1) Cal. Documents Relating to Scotland- Vol. IV, entry 942
(2) Acta Parl. Scotiae- Vol. II, p. 54
(3) Cal. Documents Relating to Scotland- Vol. IV, entry 1216
The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant-Cokayne et al., Ed., Alan Sutton Pub., Gloucester, 1910-1959- Vol. VI, p.254; VIII, p. 90
The Scots Peerage- James Balfour Paul- Vol. IV, p. 348; V., pp. 426-9
Dictionary of National Biography- Sidney Lee, Ed., Smith, Elder & Co., London, 1893- Vol. 33, pp. 382-3
The Lineage and Ancestry of H.R.H. Prince Charles, Prince of Wales- Gerald Paget- Vol. II, p. 320
"The Scottish Nation"- William Anderson, A. Fullarton & Co., Edinburgh, 1880

11I. JAMES (LIVINGUS 1, THURSTANUS 2, ALEXANDER 3, WILLIAM 4, ARCHIBALD 5, ______ 6, WILLIAM 7, WILLIAM 8, JOHN 9, ALEXANDER 10)

m. MARIAN ______
d. between 26 Apr. & 7 Nov. 1467

James was appointed Captain of Stirling Castle and tutor of the young King. In 1453 he was made a Privy Councellor appointed by the Master of the Household and Great Chamberlain of Scotland. He was made a Peer before 30 Aug. 1458 under the title of Lord Livingstone.

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Ref:

The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant-Cokayne et al., Ed., Alan Sutton Pub., Gloucester, 1910-1959- Vol. VI, p. 254; VIII p. 90-1; III, p. 539; XI, p. 153
"The Scottish Nation"- William Anderson, A. Fullarton & Co., Edinburgh, 1880
The Scots Peerage- James Balfour Paul- Vol. III, pp.64-7; IV, pp. 123-4; V, p. 429-33

12II. ALEXANDER (LIVINGUS 1, THURSTANUS 2, ALEXANDER 3, WILLIAM 4, ARCHIBALD 5, ______ 6, WILLIAM 7, WILLIAM 8, JOHN 9, ALEXANDER 10, JAMES 11)

d. after 3 May 1513

Issue-

Ref:

The Scots Peerage- James Balfour Paul, 1907-1912- Vol. V, p. 431
The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant-Cokayne et al., Ed., Alan Sutton Pub., Gloucester, 1910-1959- Vol. VIII pp. 92-3
"The Scottish Nation"- William Anderson, A. Fullarton & Co., Edinburgh, 1880

14I. JAMES (LIVINGUS 1, THURSTANUS 2, ALEXANDER 3, WILLIAM 4, ARCHIBALD 5, ______ 6, WILLIAM 7, WILLIAM 8, JOHN 9, ALEXANDER 10, JAMES 11, ALEXANDER 12)

m. ?BEATRICE FLEMING- d. before 6 June 1491- daughter of Robert, Lord Fleming and Janet Douglas
? Agnes Houston
d. before 1510

The "Complete Peerage" states that Beatrice was the mother of his son William, however, the "Scots Peerage" shows only Agnes Houston as his wife.

Issue-

Ref:

The Scots Peerage- James Balfour Paul, 1907-1912- Vol. V, pp. 433-4; VIII, p. 534
The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant-Cokayne et al., Ed., Alan Sutton Pub., Gloucester, 1910-1959- Vol. VIII pp. 92-3
"The Scottish Nation"- William Anderson, A. Fullarton & Co., Edinburgh, 1880

15I. WILLIAM (LIVINGUS 1, THURSTANUS 2, ALEXANDER 3, WILLIAM 4, ARCHIBALD 5, ______ 6, WILLIAM 7, WILLIAM 8, JOHN 9, ALEXANDER 10, JAMES 11, ALEXANDER 12, JOHN 13)

m. AGNES HEPBURN- d. of Alexander Hepburn and Janet Napier
d. before 21 Apr. 1518

Agnes obtained a divorce from William on the grounds of his adultery with Mariota Taylor by whom he had children.

Issue-

Ref:

The Scots Peerage- James Balfour Paul, 1907-1912- Vol. V, p. 435
The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant-Cokayne et al., Ed., Alan Sutton Pub., Gloucester, 1910-1959- Vol. VIII pp. 92-3; 436-8
"The Scottish Nation"- William Anderson, A. Fullarton & Co., Edinburgh, 1880

16I. ALEXANDER (LIVINGUS 1, THURSTANUS 2, ALEXANDER 3, WILLIAM 4, ARCHIBALD 5, ______ 6, WILLIAM 7, WILLIAM 8, JOHN 9, ALEXANDER 10, JAMES 11, ALEXANDER 12, JOHN 13, WILLIAM 14)

m.1. Janet Stewart (d.s.p.)
2. AGNES DOUGLAS- d. of John Douglas, 2nd Earl of Morton and Janet Crichton
d. before 4 Jan. 1551

Almon Castle- acquired from the Crawford's c.1540

In 1543 Sir Alexander was appointed one of the people to see to the education of the young Mary, Queen of Scots. He was appointed an Extraordinary Lord of Sessions 5 Mar. 1544. The safe keeping of the Queen was given to him and Lord Erskine by the Estates 24 Apr. 1545 and 1547 after the battle of Pinkie in which his son was killed. Alex went with Queen Mary to France where he died.

Issue-

Ref:

The Scots Peerage- James Balfour Paul, 1907-1912- Vol. V, pp. 435-6; VI, p. 358; VIII, pp. 94-5
The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant-Cokayne et al., Ed., Alan Sutton Pub., Gloucester, 1910-1959- Vol. VIII pp.93-5
"The Scottish Nation"- William Anderson, A. Fullarton & Co., Edinburgh, 1880
"Senators of the College of Justice"- Haig & Bruton, p.81
"Historie"- John Knox, p.345

17II. WILLIAM (LIVINGUS 1, THURSTANUS 2, ALEXANDER 3, WILLIAM 4, ARCHIBALD 5, ______ 6, WILLIAM 7, WILLIAM 8, JOHN 9, ALEXANDER 10, JAMES 11, ALEXANDER 12, JOHN 13, WILLIAM 14, ALEXANDER 15)

m. AGNES FLEMING
d. 1592

William succeeded to the peerage in 1553. Although a protestant, he became a strong supporter of Mary, Queen of Scots, probably through the influence of his sister, Mary, who was one of the Queen's ladies. Queen Mary frequently stayed at his home at Callendar and shortly prior to her marriage to Lord Darnley rode from Perth to Callendar to be present at the christening of his baby.(1) Rumor had it that she narrowly escaped capture by the Earl of Moray. William, after the marriage, accompanied the queen in the raid against Moray.(2)

William was one of those who on 7 Feb. 1566 refused the Queen's order to attend mass.(3) However, he became a supporter of the Duke of Lennox and ultimately was inclined towards the catholic religion. Robert Bruce in a letter to the Duke of Parma, 24 July 1589, stated that one portion of the money sent from Spain was "in the principal house of my Lord Livingstone, a very Catholic lord"(13) However, when King James' agents came to search for the money they "returned without it, and the Lord Livingstone came in to the king".(14) On 6 March 1589/90 William was appointed one of the commission for enforcing the laws against the jesuits.(15)

The Murder of Rizzio

At the time of Rizzio's murder on 9 March, William was in attendance on the queen at Holyrood, but, succeeded in making his escape from the palace. On her journey from Edinburgh to Glasgow to visit Darnley in his sickness the queen stayed the night at Callendar and in a letter recorded an allusion made by William as to Bothwell's passion for her. There is not evidence that William was involved in the murder of Darnley, although he was in Edinburgh when it happened and was in attendance on the queen at Seton where she went shortly after his murder.(4) After her marriage to Bothwell, William seems to have remained aloof from her and was not present when she surrendered at Carberry. William did, however, sign the bond to deliver her from Lochleven and fought for her at Langside and accompanied her in her flight from the battle. On 18 May 1568 after crossing the Solway, he arrived with her at Workington in Cumberland.(5) On the 24th he was charged to render up his castle of Callendar.(6) Queen Mary appointed him one of her commission to York, and he was again in England as the Queen's agent in the summer of 1570 and returned to Scotland in July.(7) In August he sent his servant, George Livingstone, to deliver to the Earl of Sussex an explaination of the motives which led the lords of the queen's party to take up arms.(8) During this time of civil war William remained abroad. On 4 July 1572 sureties appeared for him to give security that his castle of Callendar would be delivered up to the regent on fifteen days' warning and on this condition his wife and household servants were permitted to remain in it.(9) On 7 Apr. 1573 the Regent Morton wrote to Burghley asking that William, would was on his way to Scotland from France, should be prevented from coming to Scotland.(10) On 14 Apr. William appealed to Morton from London to procure a license from Queen Elizabeth for his return and he ultimately obtained leave from the Regent on 13 June.(11) On 22 March 1574 he was declared to have made due obedience to the government and was relieved of his bonds and cautions.(12)

William was one of the nobles who in 1577 advised King James to abolish the regency and take the government into his own hands and when Morton retook Stirling Castle he joined the lords who fought against him at Falkirk. William's hostility to Morton was probably due to the fact that the revocation of grants from the crown affected the estate granted by Queen Mary to his sister, Mary Livingstone.

Tutbury Castle

Agnes was a member of the Queen's household and accompanied her to England and stayed with her at Tutbury Castle as a lady of the bechamber. Lord Shrewsbury stated that the ladies spent much of their time occupied with embroidery to while away the time. Lady Livingstone was murdered before 18 Oct. 1597 and was buried at Falkirk. The warrant issued by King James VI for the arrest of the suspected murderer survives (although I have been unable to find a primary source for this).

"1568, Winter, Bolton Castle: Mary

I tell my ladies-in-waiting, Mary Seton and Agnes Livingstone, that they can tell my hosts, Lord and Lady Scrope of Bolton Castle, that all my gowns, my favorite goods, and my personal furniture must be brought from Scotland at once and that I will wear nothing but my own beautiful clothes. I tell them that I will go in rags rather than wear anything but a queen's wardrobe. I will crouch on the floorboards if I cannot sit on a throne under a cloth of estate..."

Ref:

(1) "Historie"- John Knox- Vol. II, p. 490
(2) Reg. P.C. Scot.- Vol. I, p. 379
(3) Illustrations of the Reign of Queen Mary- Bannatyne Club, p. 153
(4) Cal. State Papers- For. Ser. 1566-1568- entry 977
(5) Ibid- entry 2199
(6) Cal. State Papers- For. Ser. 1569-1571- entry 1062
(7) Ibid
(8) Ibid- Scott. Ser.- p. 299
(9) Reg. P.C. Scot.- Vol. II, p. 130
(10) Cal. State Papers- Scot. Ser.- p. 372
(11) Ibid- pp. 373, 850
(12) Reg. P.C. Scot.- Vol. II, p. 351
(13) Calderwood- v. 22
(14) Ibid- p. 36
(15) Reg. P.C. Scot.- Vol. IV, p. 464

The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant-Cokayne et al., Ed., Alan Sutton Pub., Gloucester, 1910-1959- Vol. VIII p. 26
Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage- Charles Mosley, Ed., Burke's Perrage, Ltd., 2003- Vol. I, p. 1336
"The Scottish Nation"- William Anderson, A. Fullarton & Co., Edinburgh, 1880

Dictionary of National Biography- Sidney Lee, Ed., Smith, Elder & Co., London, 1893- Vol. 32, pp. 403-4
The Scots Peerage- James Balfour Paul, 1907-1912- Vol. V, pp. 439-443