Leving of Levingstoun

Leving was born in 1065 in Livingston, West Lothian, Scotland.¹ Leving is no longer alive.

General Notes
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  Peter Barns-Graham writes: "This family is thought to be of Saxon origin, the name being derived from Leofing (son of Leof). One theory is that a Baron de Leving followed Edward Atheling into exile and then he, or his son, came to Scotland with Edward's daughter Margaret when she married King Malcolm Canmore. Normally identified as the first (formally) recorded ancestor of this family, and probably grandson of Baron de Leving, was Leving / Livingus (a 1124)." Robert Sewell quotes Robert Livinston: "The surname Livingston is of territorial origin derived from the lands of that same name in West Lothian, just to the southwest of Edinburgh. A Saxon by the name of Leving settled in in the area sometime during the reign of Edgar (1097-1107) and it is from him that we get the name "Leving's Town" or "Livingston". Leving's grandson, William was designated in a charter as William the Lion "of Livingston". His descendant, Sir William Livingston accompanied King David II on his expedition to England in 1346 and it was from him that he acquired the Barony of Callendar, Stirlingshire, and whose heiress he married. These are the 'Lowland Livingstons' from whose branches descended the Livingstons of Dunipace, Kinnaird, Bonton and Westquarter." "Baron de Leving a Saxon nobleman who accompanied St. Margaret the Exile when she arrived at the Court of King Edward the Confessor in 1057."

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Leving of Levingstoun

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