Edward de Leving

• Preferred Name: Edward de Leving^[1]
  
• Gender: M
  
• Death: 1068 in Kirkliston, West Lothian, Scotland at LATI: N5.9568 LONG: E3.4015
  
• Birth: 990 in Hungary at LATI: N7 LONG: E9.5
  
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• Baron+de+Leving: with note: Description: Information 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. circa 1057 Baron de Leving had a son: 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. The “Highland Livingstones” are of quite a different origin. The earliest of the Highland Livingstones were from the Isle of Lismore in the centre of Loch Linne off the coast of Western Scotland. Baron de Leving Edward the Atheling or “Royal Prince” (1016 – 1057) was the eldest son of King Edmund (II) Ironside of England. He fled to Hungary during the reign of Canute (1016 – 1035) where he married Agatha of Hungary. Their daughter, St. Margaret the Exile, was born in Hungary in 1045. After the death of her father in 1057, St. Margaret arrived at the English court of Edward the Confessor. With her, according to legend, came the forebearer of the Livingstons: a nobleman named Baron de Leving. Ten years later following the defeat of Harold Godwinson at Hastings in 1066, St. Margaret was in exile again. This time, she fled to Scotland, and Baron de Leving accompanied her; or so the story goes. St. Margaret married King Malcolm (III) Cænmore of Scotland in 1068, and was canonised in 1250. Her feast day in Scotland is November 16.
  
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  === Life Sketch ===
  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.
  
  circa 1057
  Baron de Leving had a son: 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.
  The “Highland Livingstones” are of quite a different origin. The earliest of the Highland Livingstones were from the Isle of Lismore in the centre of Loch Linne off the coast of Western Scotland. Baron de Leving
  Edward the Atheling or “Royal Prince” (1016 – 1057) was the eldest son of King Edmund (II) Ironside of England. He fled to Hungary during the reign of Canute (1016 – 1035) where he married Agatha of Hungary. Their daughter, St. Margaret the Exile, was born in Hungary in 1045. After the death of her father in 1057, St. Margaret arrived at the English court of Edward the Confessor. With her, according to legend, came the forebearer of the Livingstons: a nobleman named Baron de Leving. Ten years later following the defeat of Harold Godwinson at Hastings in 1066, St. Margaret was in exile again. This time, she fled to Scotland, and Baron de Leving accompanied her; or so the story goes. St. Margaret married King Malcolm (III) Cænmore of Scotland in 1068, and was canonised in 1250. Her feast day in Scotland is November 16. Click on St. Margaret for more about this remarkable queen.
  Perhaps Baron de Leving (or more likely his forebearer) accompanied Edward the Atheling into exile in the early 11th century; for as Mr. E.B. Livingston argues so convincingly in The Livingstons of Callendar, Baron de Leving was doubtless of Saxon lineage. Mr. Livingston states:
  “. . . in England, long before the Norman Conquest, the patronymic Leving, Living or Lyfing, derived from Leofing, which in modern English means ‘the son of Leof’ – namely ‘son of the Beloved’ – was borne by numerous persons of rank and positon as their family or tribal name. It occurs as early as the middle of the ninth century as the name of one of the witnesses to a charter of Berthwulf of Mercia; and the Archbishop of Canterbury who crowned Edmund Ironside in 1016, and who likewise crowned his rival and successor Canute a few months later, also bore that name. So did another famous Saxon churchman, the Bishop of Crediton and Worster, and the friend of Earl Godwine, who has come to us in the words of the old Saxon chronicler as ‘Lyfing se wordsnotera biscop,’ namely ‘Living the eloquent bishop’. Besides these two great churchmen, there are many other persons bearing this name mentioned in, or witness to, Anglo-Saxon charters; one of these Levings or Livings being the Staller or Master of the Horse to Edward the Confessor.”
  
  === The British Compendium; or, Rudiments of honor: Containing the origin of the Scots, and succession of their kings for above 2000 years ===
  Image: 220 of 490; Page: 221, XVI. Livingston, Earl of Linlithgow, chronicles the Livingston's. Image: 98 of 600, Map of Scotland indicating the location of Linlithgow. Image: 68 of 600, Livingston, Viscount of Kilsyth, Coat of Arms. Image: 64 of 600, Livingston, Earl of Linlithgow, Coat of Arms. See link in sources.
  
  === Cynthia R Bledsoe ===
  The Ancient Livingstons The ancient arms of Livingston are described as: “Argent, three cinquefoils Gules” which means “Silver with three red five pointed leaves.” The Livingston of Callendar Arms shown here are the Livingston arms quartered with the arms of Callendar: “Sable, a bend between six billets, Or” which means “Black with a gold diagonal between six gold bars.” Edward the Atheling or “Royal Prince” (1016 – 1057) was the eldest son of King Edmund (II) Ironside of England. He fled to Hungary during the reign of Canute (1016 – 1035) where he married Agatha of Hungary. Their daughter, St. Margaret the Exile, was born in Hungary in 1045. After the death of her father in 1057, St. Margaret arrived at the English court of Edward the Confessor. With her, according to legend, came the forebearer of the Livingstons: a nobleman named Baron de Leving. Ten years later following the defeat of Harold Godwinson at Hastings in 1066, St. Margaret was in exile again. This time, she fled to Scotland, and Baron de Leving accompanied her; or so the story goes. St. Margaret married King Malcolm (III) Cænmore of Scotland in 1068, and was canonised in 1250. (See Scotland, Generation Twenty-two) Perhaps Baron de Leving (or more likely his forebear) accompanied Edward the Atheling into exile in the early 11th century; for as Mr. E.B. Livingston argues so convincingly on the first page of The Livingstons of Callendar, Baron de Leving was doubtless of Saxon lineage: “. . . in England, long before the Norman Conquest, the patronymic Leving, Living or Lyfing, derived from Leofing, which in modern English means ‘the son of Leof’ – namely ‘son of the Beloved’ – was borne by numerous persons of rank and positon as their family or tribal name. It occurs as early as the middle of the ninth century as the name of one of the witnesses to a charter of Berthwulf of Mercia; and the Archbishop of Canterbury who crowned Edmund Ironside in 1016, and who likewise crowned his rival and successor Canute a few months later, also bore that name. So did another famous Saxon churchman, the Bishop of Crediton and Worster, and the friend of Earl Godwine, who has come to us in the words of the old Saxon chronicler as ‘Lyfing se wordsnotera biscop,’ namely ‘Living the eloquent bishop’. Besides these two great churchmen, there are many other persons bearing this name mentioned in, or witness to, Anglo-Saxon charters; one of these Levings or Livings being the Staller or Master of the Horse to Edward the Confessor.” The Highland Livingstones were from the Isle of Lismore in the centre of Loch Linne off the coast of Western Scotland and were perhaps of a different origin from the Lowland Livingstons. However, there is a possiblity that Baron de Leving was a highlander with close family ties to the Mac an Ollaimhs of Lismore. Regardless of the exact origin of Baron de Leving, he settled in in the area of West Lothian, just to the southwest of Edinburgh, sometime during the reign of Edgar (1097-1107) and it is from him that we get the name “Leving’s Town” or “Livingston”. The story of the Livingston Family begins, as do many families, with a legend: the Saxon or Hungarian or perhaps Highland Scottish nobleman Baron de Leving.
  
  === A Saxon nobleman who acc. St. Margaret t ===
  A Saxon nobleman who acc. St. Margaret th Exile when she arrived at theCourt of King Edward 1057

1. Baron de Leving, b. ABT 1057 in Scotland     d. in Scotland

1. Title: The British compendium; or, Rudiments of honour: Containing the origin of the Scots, and succession of their kings for above 2000 years; by Nichols, Francis, 18th cent
   Author: Publication date: 1741; Topics: Heraldry, Nobility; Publisher: London : Hitch; Collection cdl; americana; Digitizing sponsor: Internet Archive; Contributor: University of California Libraries; Language: English; Volume 3
   Publication: Name: https://archive.org/details/britishcompendiu03nich/britishcompendiu03nich;
   Note: Image: 220 of 490; Page: 221, XVI. Livingston, Earl of Linlithgow, chronicles the Livingston's. Image: 98 of 600, Map of Scotland indicating the location of Linlithgow. Image: 68 of 600, Livingston, Viscount of Kilsyth, Coat of Arms. Image: 64 of 600, Livingston, Earl of Linlithgow, Coat of Arms.
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