The title Earl of Callendar was created in the Peerage of Scotland

Peerage of Scotland

The Peerage of Scotland is the division of the British Peerage for those peers created in the Kingdom of Scotland before 1707. With that year's Act of Union, the Kingdom of Scotland and the Kingdom of England were combined into the Kingdom of Great Britain, and a new Peerage of Great Britain was...

 in 1641 for James Livingston, 1st Lord Livingston of Almond

James Livingston, 1st Earl of Callendar

James Livingston, 1st Earl of Callendar , army officer who fought on the Royalist side in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms....

, a younger son of the 1st Earl of Linlithgow, along with the subsidiary title Lord Livingston and Almond. from his uncle, with which title the Earldom of Callendar was merged until its forfeiture by attainder in 1716. The seat of the Earls of Callendar was the imposing Callendar House

Callendar House

Callendar House is a mansion set within the grounds of Callendar Park in Falkirk, central Scotland. Its present form, in the style of a French Renaissance château, dates from the 19th century, although at its core is a 14th-century tower house...

 in Falkirk

Falkirk

Falkirk is a town in the Central Lowlands of Scotland. It lies in the Forth Valley, almost midway between the two most populous cities of Scotland; north-west of Edinburgh and north-east of Glasgow....

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Lords Livingston of Almond (1633–1716)

• James Livingston, 1st Lord Livingston of Almond
  James Livingston, 1st Earl of Callendar
  James Livingston, 1st Earl of Callendar , army officer who fought on the Royalist side in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms....
  
   (d. 1674) (created Earl of Callendar in 1641)

Earls of Callendar (1641–1716)

• James Livingston, 1st Earl of Callendar
  James Livingston, 1st Earl of Callendar
  James Livingston, 1st Earl of Callendar , army officer who fought on the Royalist side in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms....
  
   (d. 1674)
• Alexander Livingston, 2nd Earl of Callendar (d. 1685)
• Alexander Livingston, 3rd Earl of Callendar (d. 1692)
• James Livingston, 4th Earl of Callendar (d. 1723) (became 5th Earl of Linlithgow in 1695, attainted 1716)