Agnes (Fleming) Fleming Lady Livingston (abt. 1535 - 1597)

Born about 1535 in Boghall castle, Biggar, Lanarkshire, Scotland

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Died 18 Oct 1597 at about age 62 in Callendar, Stirling, Stirlingshire, Scotland

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Biography

Agnes Fleming was born c. 1535, daughter to Malcolm Fleming, 3rd Lord Fleming and his wife Janet Stewart, natural daughter of King James IV. by Isabel Stewart, Countess of Bothwell, daughter of James, third Earl of Buchan.^[1]

She married, about 1553, William Livingston, later sixth Lord Livingston and brother to John Livingston that married her sister Johanna.

They had a charter, on 1 October 1553, of the lands of Castletown and Balmalloch.

She is said to have been buried at Falkirk, and two recumbent stone figures near the family tomb are said to represent her and her husband. Balfour Paul was however, sceptical.^[2]

They had five sons and two daughters:^[3]

1. Alexander; who will become first Earl of Linlithgow.
2. John, who died young.
3. Henry, who also died young.
4. Sir George, of Ogilface, married Margaret, believed to have been of the family of Innernytie, and died about 1616. From him are descended the second family of Livingston of Westquarter and Bedlormie.
5. Sir William, of Culter, died 2 May 1607, buried at Dundrennan; married Mary, daughter of Sir William Bailie of Lamington, and widow of Edward Maxwell, Abbot of Dundrennan. His son, William, married Helen Livingston, heiress of Westquarter.

1. Jean, married (contract 1 and 10 April 1575) to Alexander, fourth Lord Elphinston, and had issue. She died 15 September 1651.
2. Margaret, married, first, in 1581, as his second wife, to Sir Lewis Bellenden of Auchnoul, Justice-Clerk; and secondly, after 1591, to Patrick Stewart, Earl of Orkney, who squandered all her property and left her to die in poverty.

Sources

1. ↑ Paul, James Balfour. The Scots Peerage : founded on Wood's ed. of Sir Robert Douglas's Peerage of Scotland; containing an historical and genealogical account of the nobility of that kingdom, Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1911, Vol. VIII, Archive.org, p. 541
2. ↑ Paul, James Balfour. The Scots Peerage : founded on Wood's ed. of Sir Robert Douglas's Peerage of Scotland; containing an historical and genealogical account of the nobility of that kingdom, Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1908, Vol. V, Archive.org, p. 442
3. ↑ Paul, James Balfour. The Scots Peerage : founded on Wood's ed. of Sir Robert Douglas's Peerage of Scotland; containing an historical and genealogical account of the nobility of that kingdom, Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1908, Vol. V, Archive.org, pp. 442-43