Janet (Dundas) Dundas Lady Callendar (abt. 1389 - 1459)

Born about 1389 in Dundas, Linlithgowshire, Scotland

Ancestors

Wife of Alexander (Livingston) of Callender — married 1400 in Scotland

Descendants

Died 1459 at about age 70 in Calder, Linlithgowshire, Scotland

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Biography

Janet (Dundas) Dundas Lady Callendar is a member of Dundas Clan.

A unnamed daughter of James Dundas was the wife of Sir Alexander Livingston.^[1]

Research Notes

First name of Janet has yet to be sourced.

Birth information

Birth of 1384 in Callendar, Lanark and circa 1394 in Dundas.^{[citation needed]}

Alternate Parentage

Parents of John de Dundas, b: ABT 1358 in Dundas, West Lothian, Scotland, and Joan (Joanna) Douglas, b: ABT 1365, in Douglas Castle, Douglas, Lanarkshire, Scotland.

Other Notes

The rest of the information needs to be sourced and placed into her Biography or that of others.

Sir Alexander Livingston and (?) Dundas had the following children:

1. Sir James Livingston, 1st Lord Livingston of Callendar
2. Alexander Livingston of Feldes or Phildes, of Perthshire, Constable of Stirling Castle, Captain of Methven Castle, etc., executed by hanging and/or beheading on Castle Hill in Edinburgh on January 21, 1449/50 for high treason.

* Her son Alexander, shows as being born before her birth and the birth of her husband. It must be another Alexander Livingston, of which there are many in this time period.

Children of Alexander Livingston and Dundas are:

James Livingston, d. 1467.

Alexander Livingston.

7 Alexander Livingston,III (of Dunipace) Born: in Phildes, Perthshire, Scotland Died: Aft. May 1532 in Dunipace, Stirlingshire, Scotland

+FirstWife of Alexander Livingston III Died: Bef. 1490

8 David Livingston, (of Bantaskine) Born: in Dunipace, Stirlingshire, Scotland Died: Bef. April 1525 in Bantaskine, Scotland

+Margaret Shaw Died: Bef. April 14, 1525

9 Alexander Livingston, (of Bantaskine) Born: in Bantaskine, Scotland

+Daughter of Leise Married: in Falkirk, Stirlingshire, Scotland

NOTES FROM www.robertsewell.ca

The person depicted here appears to be the nephew, not the son of Janet Dundas.

“During his eventual career Sir Alexander Livingston filled various offices of the highest dignity and importance, including those of Justiciary of Scotland and Ambassador to England. He died in 1451. By his wife, a daughter of James Dundas of Dundas he had, among other children, two sons, of whom the younger, Alexander Livingston of Feldes, Constable of Stirling Castle, was the ancestor of the Livingstons of Dunipace (extinct 1678).” Executed By James Ii,King,,Scotland(?)

Alexander Livingston (son of John de Livingston and Mentheith) died 1451. He married Dundas. Children of Alexander Livingston and Dundas are: +James Livingston, d. 1467. Alexander Livingston.

Death: 1459, Place: Calder, West Lothian, Scotland. Two sons and two daughters:

1. James, first Lord Livingston.
   
2. Alexander of Phildes or Fildes, in the lordship of Methven, Captain of Methven Castle and Constable of Stirling Castle, who was executed 22 January 1450. His forfeited estate of Phildes was granted to Alexander Napier, Comptroller, for his faithful service as servant of the Queen-mother, when she was treasonably imprisoned by Sir Alexander Livingston, his son James, and their accomplices.(4-429) He had issue, a son, (1) Alexander of Dunipace. He was a member of the Town Council of Stirling in 1527-28. He married Alison Gourlay (_Reg. Mag. Sig._, wr December 1521), and had issue:?
   

i. David of Bantaskine, died _vitâ patris_, having married Elizabeth Shaw, with issue.

ii. Mr. Alexander of Dunipace and Fildes. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Adam Hepburn of Craigs (cf. ante, vol. ii. 149; _Reg. Mag. Sig._, 24 July 1525) with issue (_Lands and Lairds of Larbert and Dunipace Parishes_, by J. C. Gibson, 1908_.

1. Janet, married to James Hamilton of Cadzow (Eleventh Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm._, App. vi. 14, 15; cf. vol. iv. 348).
2. Elizabeth.

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, 1908, Vol. V, Archive.org, p. 429

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