Sir Andrew de Livingston

Andrew Livingston was born 1240 in Drumry, Dumbartonshire, Scotland, and died 1297 in slain during the revolt led by Sir William Wallace. He married Elene DeQuarantley.

Includes NotesNotes for Andrew Livingston: From http://www.robertsewell.ca/livingston.html#l4

"the first of an unbroken line of Livingstons is Sir Andrew de Livingston; and it is with him that we will begin this genealogy:

Sir Andrew was the Sheriff of Lanark 1696, in which year he swore allegiance to Edward I of England at Berwick-on-Tweed.

Sir Andrew de Livingston was one of the Scottish knights summoned by King Edward I on May 24th 1297 to attend his expedition to Flanders. He was killed the same year in the revolt led by the great Scottish hero Sir William Wallace. it appears that Sir William Wallace emerged as the leader of the Scottish forces after Sir Andrew was killed. 

It is on official record that the Sheriff of Lanark was killed when Scottish rebels burned Lanark in 1297. Blind Harry, the Minstrel, asserts that this sheriff was an Englishman by the name of Hesilrig; but there is no record of such a man having held this office. Sir Andrew de Livingston is known to have been Sheriff of Lanark during the year preceding Wallace’s Revolt; and it is also evident that he must have been deceased about this time due to the fact that after Wallace’s Revolt there is no further reference to him in the public records. "
For more background on this Troubled Time in Scotland check the above website. This is an excerpt: In 1297, Sir William Wallace led a small force of about 30 men that burned Lanark and killed the Sheriff, who was our forebearer Sir Andrew de Livingston. Mr. E.B. Livingston writes in The Livingstons of Callendar: “The earliest Livingston documentary seal, so far as known, is that of Sir Andrew de Livingston, Sheriff of Lanark, which is appended to his homage roll, dated 28 August 1296. This, however, is evidently not heraldic. It is described by the late Mr. Joseph Bain in his list of Homage Seals as: ‘Lozenge shape, a wolf (?) passant to sinister, a tree behind; S’Andree D’Levingistun Mil.’”

Died: 1297, slain during the revolt led by by Sir William Wallace Married: Lady Elene de Quarantley or de Carantelegh Sir Andrew de Livingston and Lady Elene de Quarantley had the following child:

Sir William Livingston

Copied from Drumry history website, templum.freeserve.co.uk/history/drumry.htm:
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Drumry is first mentioned in the 1328 Exchequer rolls when the Lady of Drumry paid the Chamberlain of Scotland one chalder of flour at the feast of St. Martin for the freedom of her lands. It seems likely that this was either Elena Livingston, who was married to Andrew Livingston; or their daughter-in-law, Margaret, who married their son William and are mentioned later as lairds in 1338.

With their estates in West Lothian, the Livingstons were a powerful family. In 1302, Andrew's brother, Sir Archibald Livingston was listed as only one of two Scots noblemen who supported Edward Longshanks, the English king, in his claim to Scotland; the other being the Earl of Dunbar. Later that year, Robert the Bruce was also to feign loyalty to Edward - but while Robert was later to challenge Edward after the death of his father in 1304, when he had a stronger claim to the throne, the Lothian held Livingston lands continued to be a vital lifeline for Edward as he tried to keep Stirling Castle out of Bruce’s hands. Bruce was made King in 1306. Edward Longshanks died in 1307 and the battle against King Robert I was taken up by the new King of England, Edward II. Bruce took Linlithgow when his men were hidden under hay to penetrate the guard. Around 1308-9, both Rutherglen and Dumbarton fell to Bruce and his allies, and given its proximity, the estate of Drumry would follow suit.