Succeded his father in 1503.
From
TSP1received a charter of the family estates in 1503, and on 20 September 1504 granted a charter as superior of Pettyntoskane (now Bantaskine) in the barony of Callendar, in favour of Patrick Hepburn, his wife's uncle. For a debt of 250 merks he was obliged to submit to a distraint upon part of his lands in favour of Sir James Schaw of Sauchy, 4 November 1507. A charter of confirmation, dated 21 January 1509-10, of part of Callander in Menteith, Culter in Lanarkshire, and Cragston in Stirlingshire, in favour of himself and Agnes Hepburn, his spouse, was granted to Lord Livingston on his own resignation for conjunct infeftment, and a month later he resigned the whole of his estates in favour of Alexander, his son and heir-apparent, reserving his liferent and a reasonable terce to his wife.
His domestic affairs appear to have become disordered about 1512, when his son took forcible possession of Callendar House, while in the following year his wife obtained decree of divorce against him for adultery with Mariota Taylor, and having issue by her
Footnotes
[1] The Scot's Peerage by James Balfour Paul; Livingston, Earl of Linlithgow; Volume 5, 1906, Pages 421-451