LAUDER, George Bishop of Argyll, Right Reverend Mr
- Born: About 1385
- Died: after 7 March 1460(1461) 1
Other names for George were DE LAWEDRE (LAUDER), George Bishop of Argyll and LAWDER, George Bishop of Argyll.1
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General Notes:
"George Lawder (of Balcomy in Fife: K.), perpetual vicar of Crail (C.P.R. viii. 15).He had held the hospital of St. Leonard, beside Peebles,, which was vacated by his promotion (R.M.S. ii. No. 94).
On 26 May, 1427, Martin V. provided to Lismore, otherwise Argyll, void by death, George de Laderche (sic), cousin (consanguineum) of the king (B.). On 20 Dec. 1427, he received from Martin V. a faculty to be consecrated by any catholic bishop, assisted by two or three others (C.P.R. viii. 17). He was consecrated before 13 July, 1428 ib. 15). On 9 Jan. 1427-8, Master David Hamilton, dean of Glasgow, in the name of George, elect of Argyll, paid 200 gold florins and five minuta servitia. And on 21 April, 1428, George, by the grace of God bishop of Argyll, paid 40 gold florins ' in deductione sui communis servitii,' and also, as full payment of one minutum servitium, 44 shillings and 2 pence, by the hands of James Cormigam [sic), dean of Aberdeen (B.).
The bishop of Argyll (unnamed) is in Parliament 10 March, 1429-30 (A.P, ii. 28). George witnesses in the presence of the king at Edinburgh 28 June, 1445 (R.B. i. 103). On 29 Oct. 1453, James II. out of the singular aflfection he had for George, bishop of Argyll, and in compassion for the poverty of the bishopric, grants to him and his successors the parish church of Dunoon ad mensam episcopalem (R.M.S. ii. 3136).
He is in Parliament 7 March, 1460-1 (A.P. Supplement, 28), and seems to have died soon after, for he had a royal grant of the fermes of Dunoon (for life) for the keeping of the castle thereof (E.R. vi. 48), but in 1466 the earl of Argyll claims six years of said fermes, as allowed to himself, and one year preceding the six, granted to the bishop ib. vii, 386). If Lawder died as suggested above, we have either a long voidance of the see, or we have lost the records of one or more bishops."
from The Bishops of Scotland 1
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