Person:William Livingston (24)

     
Sir William Livingston
  1. Sir William Livingston1290 - Bef 1364
Facts and Events
Name Sir William Livingston
Gender Male
Birth? 1290 Drumry, Dumbartonshire, , Scotland
Occupation[6] 1339 Haddington, East Lothian, ScotlandSheriff
Military[6] 1346 Nevilles Cross, Durham, England
Marriage Bef 1358 to Christian Callendar
Occupation[6] 1358 Lanark, Lanarkshire, ScotlandSheriff
Death[5] Bef 30 Nov 1364 Stirling, Stirlingshire, , Scotland
Title (nobility)[6] Knight Banneret

Sir William Livingston was the founder of the Livingston house of Callendar. He was Sheriff of Haddington in 1339. In the following year, he was one of the Scottish hostages sent to England as security for Randolph, Earl of Moray. (see The Scots Peerage, Vol. 5, 1908, pp. 423-4, for more).

References
  1.   Ancestry Family Trees. (Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members.)
    Ancestry Family Trees.
  2.   The Scots Peerage
    V5/p423.
  3.   Genealogy.com.
  4.   Livingston, Edwin Brockholst. The Livingstons of Callendar and their principal cadets: the history of an old Stirlingshire family. (Edinburgh: Printed at the University Press by T. and A. Constable for the author, 1920)
    25-32, 1920.
  5. Livingston, Edwin Brockholst. The Livingstons of Callendar and their principal cadets: the history of an old Stirlingshire family. (Edinburgh: Printed at the University Press by T. and A. Constable for the author, 1920)
    445, 1920.

    III. Sir William de Livingston, Knight Banneret, the founder of the House of Callendar...was deceased before 30 November 1364. He married Christian de Callendar, sole heiress to this estate, which had been forfeited to the Scottish crown, and then bestowed by King David II., in the year 1345, on Sir William de Livingston. By Christian de Callendar he had issue four sons. His second son John succeeded to the Callendar estates.

  6. 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 Van Rensselaer, Florence, and William Laimbeer. The Livingston family in America and its Scottish origins. (New York, New York: [s.n.], 1949)
    4, 1949.

    ir Patrick de Callendar...
    He was...Present at the siege of Stirling serving under Sir William Douglas, the Knight of Liddesdale. In August 1340, he was one of the five noble hostages for the Regent Morey. On 13 October 1362, the King granted him the lands of Kilsyth. He fought at Neville's Cross in 1346.