LIVINGSTON, John of Callendar, Sir ^{1 3}

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John married Daughter MENTEITH, daughter of Sir John MENTEITH of Kerse, Sheriff of Clackmannan and Mariota STIRLING heiress of Kerse.^{1 2} (Daughter MENTEITH was born about 1360.)

  Marriage Notes:

"Sir John (Livingston) married, first, a daughter (name unknown) of John Menteith of Kerse, by whom he had four sons :

1. Sir Alexander, who succeeded.

2. Robert, ancestor of the first family of Livingston of Westquarter and Kinnaird.

3. John, ancestor of the Livingstons of Barnton, etc.

4. James, who is mentioned as evading the customs of Linlithgow in the export of wool in 1416-17."

from Scots Peerage (vol 5) ¹

John next married Agnes DOUGLAS, daughter of Sir James DOUGLAS Lord of Dalkeith and Agnes DUNBAR, 15 August 1381(contract).¹ (Agnes DOUGLAS was born about 1377 and died after 1421 ¹.)

  Marriage Notes:

"Sir John (Livingston) married, secondly (contract 15 August 1381), Agnes, daughter of Sir James Douglas of Dalkeith, who survived him and married John Gordon of that Ilk, without issue. By her he had a son : William, ancestor of the Viscounts of Kitsyth."

from Scots Peerage (vol 5)




"Agnes (Douglas), contracted on 15 August 1381, when quite young, to marry John Livingstone of Callendar, as his second wife. He was killed at Homildon in 1402, and she married, secondly, John Gordon of that Ilk, whom she also survived. She was alive in 1422, but may have died in that year."

from Scots Peerage (vol 6) ^{1 4}