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    Elgin Cathedral, a historic ruin in Elgin, Moray, northeast Scotland, was dedicated to the Holy Trinity. It was established in 1224 on land granted by...
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    Elgin (/ˈɛlɡɪn/ EL-ghin; Scots: Ailgin; Scottish Gaelic: Eilginn [ˈel(e)kʲɪɲ]) is a historic town (former cathedral city) and formerly a royal burgh in...
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  • Episcopatus Moraviensis nos. 26, 57 and 58 Cant, Robert: Historic Elgin and its Cathedral, Elgin: Elgin Society, 1974, p. 23 GigaCatholic, with three incembeut...
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    bones were removed in 1826, either transferred to the graveyard of Elgin Cathedral or mixed with soil and spread on fields around the burgh, while gravestones...
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    Caithness. The cathedral is the northernmost extant diocesan cathedral in mainland Britain - Dornoch Cathedral, Fortrose Cathedral and Elgin Cathedral are no...
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    kingdom's bounds. — The Chartularium Episcopatus Moraviensis written at Elgin Cathedral for the year 1398 In May 1390 parliament granted John permission to...
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  • Scotland a 1470 inscription on the tomb of the first Earl of Huntly in Elgin Cathedral. In central Europe, the King of Hungary Ladislaus the Posthumous, started...
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    Alexander Gordon, 4th Duke of Gordon (category Burials at Elgin Cathedral)
    Mount Street, Berkeley Square, on 17 June 1827, and was buried in Elgin Cathedral. He was succeeded by his son George Gordon, 5th Duke of Gordon. The...
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    Spynie Palace (category Buildings and structures in Elgin, Moray)
    Foundation of Elgin Cathedral, in Maclean, A 1974 (ed): Elgin Cathedral and Diocese of Moray, Inverness, p. 2 Fawcett, R: Elgin Cathedral, Edinburgh, 1991...
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    Columba de Dunbar (category Burials at Elgin Cathedral)
    have been buried in the aisle of St Thomas the Martyr (Becket) in Elgin Cathedral. Watt, D. E. R., & Murray, A. L., editors, Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae...
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    faculty of arts. Reid graduated in 1515 and by 1524 was subdean at Elgin Cathedral where, by 1527, he was Official of Moray. Thomas Chrystall, the abbot...
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    of Scotland. The bishopric had its seat (Latin: Cathedra) at Elgin and Elgin Cathedral, but was severally at Birnie, Kinneddar and as late as Bishop...
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    bishopric from Spynie to Elgin, for on 10 April 1224, the Pope sent Andreas his permission. Andreas' greatest legacy would be Elgin Cathedral, where all medieval...
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    as the Wolf of Badenoch and was responsible for the destruction of Elgin Cathedral. When James I of Scotland came of age, he curbed the power of his cousins...
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  • Coat'). King Edward undertook an extended march across Scotland, reaching Elgin on 26 July 1296. He remained in the town's castle for a few days, taking...
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  • primitive form, but constituting a most beautiful decorative feature. In Elgin Cathedral in Scotland, the dogtooth ornament in the archivolt becomes a four-lobed...
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    The Elgin Marbles (/ˈɛlɡɪn/ ELG-in) are a collection of Ancient Greek sculptures from the Parthenon and other structures from the Acropolis of Athens,...
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    Andrew Stewart (bishop of Moray) (category Burials at Elgin Cathedral)
    illness. Bishop Andrew did die, on 29 September 1501. He was buried in Elgin Cathedral. His older brother James Stewart, Earl of Buchan, was born in 1441...
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    Alexander Gordon, 1st Earl of Huntly (category Burials at Elgin Cathedral)
    about 1457. He died on 15 July 1470 at Huntly Castle and was buried in Elgin Cathedral. Alexander Gordon married first, c. 8 January 1426 Egidia Hay, daughter...
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    George Gordon, 1st Duke of Gordon (category Burials at Elgin Cathedral)
    until her own death in July 1732. Like her husband, she was buried in Elgin Cathedral. The duke married Lady Elizabeth Howard, daughter of Henry Howard,...
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    successor, Andreas de Moravia, that the bishopric would settle at Elgin Cathedral, Elgin. Bricius was one of the most important clerics in the Scotland of...
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    James Stewart (bishop) (category Burials at Elgin Cathedral)
    James Stewart (Scottish Gaelic: Seumas Stiùbhart) (died 1466) was a prelate from 15th century Scotland. Stewart was a member of the Stewart kindred of...
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    cathedrals generally only have one aisle on each side, with Chichester Cathedral, Elgin Cathedral and St Mary Magdalene, Taunton being the only three exceptions...
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  • within the precincts of Elgin Cathedral Elgin Cathedral: Pans Port The only surviving medieval archway of Elgin Cathedral's precinct walls Spynie Palace...
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  • David Stewart (bishop) (category Burials at Elgin Cathedral)
    1476. He was buried in the St Peter and St Paul aisle in the north of Elgin Cathedral, beside his brother. He was succeeded by William Tulloch. Dowden, John...
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    The Elgin Pillar is a class II Pictish stone, now situated on the north west side of Elgin Cathedral, in Elgin, Moray. It was discovered in 1823, lying...
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    Reformation. Although he agreed in principle to modify the structure of Elgin Cathedral to accommodate Protestant forms of worship, few powerful figures on...
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    attacks of raiding caterans, the most notable being the burning of Elgin Cathedral by Alexander Stewart, Earl of Buchan, also known as the Wolf of Badenoch...
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  • victory Lands of Angus burnt, homes sacked and civilians slaughtered Elgin Cathedral burnt to the ground Clan Mackay-Clan Gunn feud (1426–1517) Location:...
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  • of Moray was the head of the cathedral chapter of the diocese of Moray, north-central Scotland, based at Elgin Cathedral. The diocese of Moray is first...
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