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James Livingstone, 1st Earl of Callendar
b. circa 1590, d. March 1674
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James Livingstone 1st Earl Of Callendar
Birth
James Livingstone, 1st Earl of Callendar, was born circa 1590.
Parents
| Father | Alexander Livingstone, 1st Earl of Linlithgow (d. 24 December 1621) |
| Mother | Lady Helen eldest daughter of Andrew Hay, 8th Earl of Erroll and his first wife (and cousin), Lady Jean Hay Hay (b. circa 1552, d. 1627) |
Property12,3
James Livingstone, 1st Earl of Callendar, possessed granted a bond of relief to John 2nd Earl of Wigtown for 29,000 merks, with a disposition and precept of sasine infefting him in the barony of Callendar as security for that relief on 11 March 1639 in Barony of Callendar.4,5
Death
James Livingstone, 1st Earl of Callendar, died in March 1674 at age ~84.
Citations
- [S43] Scotland Court of Exchequer, editor, Registrum Magni Sigilli Regum Scotorum: The Register of the Great Seal of Scotland (Edinburgh: General Register House, 1912), vol ix, 1634-1651, ch 171, p 70-72; online image, Internet Archive, archive.org (https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=njp.32101038096846&seq=7&q1=flemyng : viewed 8 September 2026.
- [S43] Scotland Court of Exchequer, editor, Registrum Magni Sigilli Regum Scotorum: The Register of the Great Seal of Scotland (Edinburgh: General Register House, 1912), vol ix, 1634-1651, ch 253, p 104; online image, Internet Archive, archive.org (https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=njp.32101038096846&seq=7&q1=flemyng : viewed 8 September 2026.
- [S17] Francis J Grant (Ed), Charter Chest of the Earldom of Wigtown: 1214-1681 (Edinburgh: James Skinner & Company for the Scottish Record Society, 1910), Charter 733–737.
- [S17] Francis J Grant (Ed), Charter Chest of the Earldom of Wigtown: 1214-1681 (Edinburgh: James Skinner & Company for the Scottish Record Society, 1910), Charter 207.
- [S17] Francis J Grant (Ed), Charter Chest of the Earldom of Wigtown: 1214-1681 (Edinburgh: James Skinner & Company for the Scottish Record Society, 1910), Charter 208.
| Last Edited | 9 September 2025 |