• The Archdeacon of Lothian was the head of the Archdeaconry of Lothian, a sub-division of the Diocese of St Andrews. The position was one of the most important...
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  • William del Bois, Archdeacon of Lothian 1226-1227: Thomas de Stirling, Archdeacon of Glasgow 1227-1230: Matthew the Scot, Bishop-elect of Dunkeld 1231–1233:...
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    David Arnot (bishop) (category Year of birth unknown)
    crown presentation to become Archdeacon of Lothian on 26 October 1498. Arnot is found to be provost of the collegiate church of Bothwell in a document dating...
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  • part of the diocese which lay south of the Forth. The Lothian archdeaconry was headed by the Archdeacon of Lothian, a subordinate of the Bishop of St Andrews...
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  • Archdeacon of Lothian by 1359 and Bishop of St Andrews in 1367. Died 1408. Became Archdeacon of Lothian. Became Bishop of Dunkeld. Became Bishop of Dunkeld...
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    coming as ambassadors to David de Brus (David II of Scotland). Walter de Moffat who was Archdeacon of Lothian was appointed ambassador to France in 1337. Although...
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  • Walter Forrester (category Rectors of the University of Paris)
    He became a royal clerk, and appears to have held the position of archdeacon of Lothian c. 1386. After extending his education at Paris in the 1390s, he...
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  • Walter Wardlaw (category Bishops of Glasgow)
    was a canon of Glasgow, a Master of Theology and archdeacon of Lothian. He was at the University of Paris, and a roll of the year 1349 has one "Master William...
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    William de Lauder (category Bishops of Glasgow)
    unsuccessfully sued in the Curia for the Precentorship of Glasgow. "Willielmus de Lawadir, Archdeacon of Lothian, accompanied by Alanus de Lawedir de Scotia" (his...
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  • Kininmund (d. 1344), archdeacon of Lothian and bishop of Aberdeen Alexander de Kininmund (d. 1380), archdeacon of Aberdeen and bishop of Aberdeen This disambiguation...
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    The Secretary of Scotland or Lord Secretary was a senior post in the government of the Kingdom of Scotland. The office appeared in the 14th century (or...
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  • Alexander de Kininmund (died 1344) (category Bishops of Aberdeen)
    was, in fact the author of the document. He became Archdeacon of Lothian in 1327, and by 1329 held a prebend in the diocese of Brechin; he is also a papal...
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    Grenlay (c. 1400), Vicar of Conveth and of Erth, Bailie of the Temple of Aberdeen, Burgess of Aberdeen, and Archdeacon of Lothian and of Orkney, Sir Alexander...
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  • William de Bondington (category Bishops of Glasgow)
    Chancellor of Scotland and a bishop of Glasgow. Before becoming bishop, William was rector of Eddleston, a prebendary of Glasgow, and archdeacon of Lothian. From...
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  • John de Leicester (category Bishops of Dunkeld (pre-Reformation))
    1214) was an early 13th-century bishop of Dunkeld. Before becoming bishop, he had been archdeacon of Lothian. He was elected to the bishopric on 22 July...
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  • University of St Andrews owed its origin to a society formed in 1410 by Laurence of Lindores, Abbot of Scone, Richard de Cornell, Archdeacon of Lothian, and...
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  • James Bane (category Bishops of St Andrews)
    at the court of Pope John XXII at Avignon, stood against Alexander de Kyninmonth, Archdeacon of Lothian, and won. However, before news of his victory reached...
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  • Marion Ogilvy (category Daughters of barons)
    1560) Alexander Beaton of Hospitalfield, Archdeacon of Lothian, who married Margaret Allardyce, his son was David Beaton of Carsgownie. John Beaton Agnes...
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    Monymusk, all north of the Forth, and Stow of Wedale, Lasswade, and Liston in Lothian. There was also an important episcopal manor at Tyninghame near Dunbar...
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    Robert Wishart (category Scottish people of the Wars of Scottish Independence)
    Wishart's first recorded office in the church was as archdeacon of St. Andrews. He was appointed Bishop of Glasgow in 1273. As well as a churchman he became...
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    Columba de Dunbar (category Bishops of Moray)
    additional rectory of the parish church of Locherworth or Borthwick (£30 per annum), from which he was promoted to the post of Archdeacon of Lothian. He Supplicated...
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    William de Malveisin (category Bishops of Glasgow)
    ecclesiastical post, as Archdeacon of Lothian. He was made the king's Chancellor probably on 8 September 1199, and was elected to the Bishopric of Glasgow in October...
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  • Alexander Beaton, Archdeacon of Lothian to ask him to surrender his benefice and the parsonage of Currie for the newly founded University of Edinburgh. He...
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  • Watt, D.E.R., Fasti Ecclesiae Scotinanae Medii Aevi ad annum 1638, 2nd Draft, (St Andrews, 1969), pp. 304–9 Archdeacon of Lothian Bishop of St Andrews...
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    Martin Schöner (category Household of Anne of Denmark)
    Alexander Beaton, Archdeacon of Lothian, a son of Cardinal David Beaton and Marion Ogilvy, and owner of Carsegownie. The coat of arms of the Carsgonny Beaton...
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    in Lothian as well as deputising (as Official) to two archdeacons of Lothian. In the late summer and in the autumn of 1296, between the death of Bishop...
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    Currie (category Areas of Edinburgh)
    property of the Gibson-Craigs. There has been a Christian community in the area for more than 1,000 years. In 1018, the archdeacons of Lothian set up their...
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  • Osbern, Abbot of Jedburgh, Thor, Archdeacon of Lothian, Aiulf (Æþelwulf), Dean of Lothian, Nicholas, royal clerk (future Chamberlain of Scotland), as...
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  • Matthew the Scot (category Bishops of Aberdeen)
    Chancellor of Scotland in the late reign of king Alexander II of Scotland. He was appointed in 1227 after the death of Thomas, Archdeacon of Lothian. His name...
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  • 1969), pp. 304–9 Archdeaconry of Lothian (other St Andrews archdeaconry) Archdeacon of St Andrews, for a list of archdeacons Bishop of St Andrews v t e...
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