William Stewart (bishop of Aberdeen)
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William Stewart (c. 1490–1545) was a late medieval
Lord High Treasurer of Scotland.[4]
In 1530 he received a crown presentation to
Gavin Dunbar as Bishop of Aberdeen.[5]
Stewart was consecrated as Bishop of Aberdeen in either March or April 1533.Henry VIII of England. He was sent to France in 1536, where he helped draw up the contract for his king's marriage to Mary of Guise. He went on a further mission to England in December 1541.[1]
As Bishop of Aberdeen, he strongly resisted the emerging
protestant heresies, attending condemnations in 1534 and 1540.[1] Bishop Stewart laid down a new series of constitutions for his clergy, constitutions resembling and reinforcing similar such measures previously enacted by Bishop Elphinstone.[7] He completed building work on King's College, Aberdeen, including a new library and sacristy, as well as two new schools for his diocese.[8] Bishop Stewart died at Aberdeen on 10 April 1545, and was buried in the south transept of Aberdeen Cathedral.[9]
Notes
- ^ a b c Macfarlane, "Stewart, William (c. 1490–1545)".
- ^ Innes, p. lvi.
- ^ Innes, p. lvi; Watt, Fasti Ecclesiae, p. 365.
- ^ Watt, Fasti Ecclesiae, p. 365.
- ^ Watt, Fasti Ecclesiae, p. 4.
- ^ Watt, Fasti Ecclesiae, pp. 4, 155.
- ^ Innes, Registrum, p. lvii; Macfarlane, "Stewart, William (c.1490–1545)".
- ^ Innes, Registrum, p. lviii; Macfarlane, "Stewart, William (c.1490–1545)".
- ^ Dowden, Bishops of Scotland, pp. 140-1; Innes, Registrum, p. lviii; Macfarlane, "Stewart, William (c.1490–1545)".
References
- Dowden, John, The Bishops of Scotland, ed. J. Maitland Thomson, (Glasgow, 1912)
- Innes, Cosmo, Registrum Episcopatus Aberdonensis: Ecclesie Cathedralis Aberdonensis Regesta Que Extant in Unum Collecta, Vol. 1, (Edinburgh, 1845)
- Keith, Robert, An Historical Catalogue of the Scottish Bishops: Down to the Year 1688, (London, 1924)
- Macfarlane, Leslie J., "Stewart, William (c.1490–1545)", in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 , retrieved 30 April 2007
- Watt, D.E.R., Fasti Ecclesiae Scotinanae Medii Aevi ad annum 1638, 2nd Draft, (St Andrews, 1969)