Levingus Livingston

• Preferred Name: Levingus Livingston
  
• Gender: M
  
• http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: Baron Leving / Levingus Levingstoun
  
• FSID: G649-3CC
  
• Birth: ABT 1100 in Scotland with note: GEDCOM data
  
• Death: ABT 1150 in Scotland with note: GEDCOM data
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  About Leving Of Levingstoun
  of W Lothan and Saxon descent
  
  All this Livingston stuff comes from this web page
  http://awt.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=REG&db=belacey1&id=I2014&ti=5538
  
  Leving of Levingstoun circa 1100 (Shown in E.B. Livingston: The Livingstons of Callendar, p. 3 & 4) Leving settled in West Lothian, southwest of Edinburgh during the reign of King Edgar (1097 – 1107) and is also known to have been there during the reign of King Alexander I (1107 – 1124) and King David I (1124 – 1153). It is from Leving that we get the name "Leving's Town' or 'Livingston'. His name was recorded in the latinized form “Levingus” when he presented the church of his manor to the newly founded Abbey of Holyrood in 1128. Leving of Levingstoun had the following children:
  Thurston of Levingstoun Hugh of Balbard in Fife German, Burgess of St. Andrews in Fife
  
  Sources: http://www.robertsewell.ca/living1.html
  
  Accompanying Margaret to the court of King Edward the confessor was one Baron de Leving. Baron de Leving's ancestry is obscure, so we do not know if he was a Saxon or Hungarian nobleman. He had a son named Leving, who in turn had a son named Leving. As a refugee following Hastings in 1066, Margaret fled to Scotland and married its King. Perhaps this is what drew the young Leving to visit and eventually settle in Scotland, during the reign of King Edgar of Scotland (1097-1107). Leving chose the West Lothian district in the lowlands of Scotland, southwest of Edinburgh. So close to Edinburgh, that he donated the church of his manor to the newly founded Abbey of Holyrood in 1128. He gave his name to the land he settled on. Given his name, Leving, by now, you should realise how the first part of Livingstone came about. To understand the second stone part, requires a history lesson. You will find that it has nothing to do with stone, which needs to be broken down into two components.
  
  Sources: http://www.adair.ca/Livingstone.html
  
  === living during reign of King Edgar (1097- ===
  living during reign of King Edgar (1097-1107)

1. Thurston Livingston, b. 24 NOV 1120 in Livingston, West Lothian, Scotland     d. 1153 in Livingston, West Lothian, Scotland