Patrick Paniter

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Patrick Paniter (born c. 1470 - 1519) Scottish churchman and principal secretary to

James V
. The surname is usually written Paniter, or Painter, or occasionally Panter.

Life

Paniter was born around 1470 at the village of Newmanswells near

Alexander Stewart, and shortly afterwards his first secretary. Alexander went to Italy with Erasmus, and Paniter became tutor to the king's brother, the Earl of Moray
.

As rewards, ecclesiastical titles piled up, and next Paniter became Archdeacon and Chancellor of

Leo X in his favour, but it was not to be.[1] Paniter held a papal dispensation for holding these church appointments while still not a priest, on account of his duties as royal secretary.[2]

In 1510, Paniter was made Customar General of Scotland. In 1511 James IV wrote to the Pope mentioning that only letters for Scotland with Paniter's countersignature could be trusted. In 1513 he donned armour at the Battle of Flodden and directed the field artillery, even helping to fire the guns. In May 1515 the Duke of Albany identified him as a Douglas supporter and he was imprisoned on the Isle of Inchgarvie. Soon Paniter gained the Duke's confidence and he was included in a diplomatic mission to Paris in July 1517. Paniter fell ill and remained in Paris where he died two years later.

Margaret Stewart, James IV's aunt.[4]

Paniter restored the Hospital of St. Mary in Montrose and was its Preceptor. Carved panels bearing his family heraldry, originally from the Hospital, which were discovered in re-use in a private house in Montrose in the 19th century, are displayed in the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh. They are among the most important and well-preserved examples surviving from the relatively small corpus of late medieval Scottish woodwork.[5]

Nephew

A nephew of Patrick, William Lamb adopted his uncle's surname and later wrote Ane Resonyng, a propaganda work addressing the issues of the war of the Rough Wooing.

Sources

  • William Fraser ed., The Cartulary of Cambuskenneth, Registrum Monasterii S. Marie de Cambuskenneth (Grampian Club, 1872), pp. lxii-lxxxvii.

References

  1. ^ Hay, Denys ed., Letters of James V (HMSO, 1954), p. 17.
  2. ^ Hay, Denys ed., Letters of James V (HMSO, 1954), pp. 58-59.
  3. ^ Mackie & Spilman ed., The Letters of James IV (Edinburgh, 1953), pp. xxxviii-xxxiv, no. 360.
  4. ^ Accounts of the Lord High Treasurer, vol. 10 (Edinburgh, 1913), p. lxxx.
  5. ^ Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries Scotland, vol. 73, p. 325.
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