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Euphemia ("Elizabeth") Livingstone

b. circa 1445, d. circa 1493

Birth

Euphemia ("Elizabeth") Livingstone was born circa 1445 in Callendar House, Stirlingshire+.1

Parents

FatherSir James ("of Callendar") Livingstone, 1st Lord Livingston (b. circa 1410, d. circa 1467)
MotherMarian Berwick (b. circa 1415)

Family life

Sir Malcolm Fleming, of Monycabock, and Euphemia ("Elizabeth") Livingstone were married before 16 May 1465.2 William Fleming, of Bord, and she were married after 1477.2

Children with Sir Malcolm Fleming, of Monycabock (b. circa 1445, d. circa 1477)

SonSir David Fleming, of Monycabock (b. circa 1463, d. between 1486 and 3 March 1489)
SonVice-admiral John ("the Ambassador") Fleming, 2nd Lord Fleming, 12th of Biggar, Cumbernauld+ (b. circa 1465, d. 1 November 1524)
SonAlexander Fleming, Burgess of Glasgow+ (b. circa 1466, d. before November 1514)
DaughterElizabeth Fleming+ (b. circa 1467)
SonMaster Michael Fleming, rector and prebendary of Ancrum and canon of Glasgow (b. circa 1468, d. circa June 1508)
DaughterIsobel Fleming (b. circa 1471)

Partner with William Fleming, of Bord (b. circa 1415, d. before 30 April 1506)

Property3,4

Euphemia ("Elizabeth") Livingstone possessed renounced her claim to income from these lands on 7 July 1470 in Panmure.5 She possessed was awarded, by a decree of the Lords Auditors, 32 merks for the mails and annualrent of the lands of Monycabo that the Earl of Huntly should pay to William Fleming of the Bord and Euphame, his spouse, relict of Malcolm Fleming on 10 March 1479 in Monycabock (later Newmachar), Aberdeenshire.2,6 She possessed obtained a transumpt (certified copy) of King James III's 1480 charter of the Fleming lands to her son David Fleming on 18 October 1483.7 She possessed had a charter in liferent from her son John, Lord Fleming, of the lands of Bad (Perthshire), held of John, Lord Drummond; the precept of sasine of the same day added Easter Auchtermony in warrandice and £10 a year from Abbotskers on 13 June 1498 in Bady and Dripps.8,9

Death

Euphemia ("Elizabeth") Livingstone died circa 1493 at age ~48.1

Citations

  1. [S29] Various, "WikiTree," pedigree, Commons, WikiTree (https://www.wikitree.com/wiki: online 6 November 2023), Euphemia (Livingston) Fleming (abt. 1445 - abt. 1493) at https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Livingston-200.
  2. [S28] Sir James Balfour Paul, The Scots Peerage: founded on Wood's edition of Sir Robert Douglas's Peerage of Scotland (Edinburgh: T and A Constable, 1911), vol viii, Fleming Earl of Wigtown pages 519 - 558.
  3. [S104] John Stuart, Editor, Registrum de Panmure: compiled by Harry Maule of Kelly in 1733 (Edinburgh: 1874), vol ii, p 241; online image, Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/registrumdepanm00ofgoog/page/n9/mode/2up : viewed 18 April 2025.
  4. [S58] Edinburgh, National Records of Scotland, "Online Catalogue," National Records of Scotland (https://catalogue.nrscotland.gov.uk/nrsonlinecatalogue: viewed 21 September 2025), GD4 2750, 16 May 1465, Instrument of sasine in favour of Malcolm Flemyng, son of Robert, Lord Flemyng, and Euphemia, his spouse, of an annualrent from the Lordship of Panmur.
  5. [S58] Edinburgh, National Records of Scotland, "Online Catalogue," National Records of Scotland (https://catalogue.nrscotland.gov.uk/nrsonlinecatalogue: viewed 11 September 2025), GD4 16545, 7 Jul 1470, Instrument of ratification by Euphemia of Levingstoune, wife of Malcolm Flemying.
  6. [S68] KM Brown and others, Records of the Parliaments of Scotland to 1707, online (St Andrews: University of St Andrews, between 2007 and 2025), 1479/3/25 & 27; online transcription and translation, (https://www.rps.ac.uk/ : accessed 8 March 2025.
  7. [S17] Francis J Grant (Ed), Charter Chest of the Earldom of Wigtown: 1214-1681 (Edinburgh: James Skinner & Company for the Scottish Record Society, 1910), Charters 48 - 52.
  8. [S169] Eric Robertson Collection of Fleming Family Charters (Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library), "MSS gen ovs 3," Item 1.8, 13 June 1498, Edinburgh. John, Lord Fleming, precept of sasine for his wife his mother Euphemia Livingston in liferent of Bad, with Easter Auchtermony in warrandice, and £10 from Abbotskers; University of Toronto, Canada.
  9. [S169] Eric Robertson Collection of Fleming Family Charters (Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library), "MSS gen ovs 3," Item 1.9, 13 June 1498, Edinburgh. John, Lord Fleming, charter to his mother Euphemia Livingston of the lands of Bad in liferent; University of Toronto, Canada.
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