Walter Wardlaw

Walter Wardlaw (died c. 1387) was a 14th-century bishop of Glasgow in Scotland.

Biography

Wardlaw was the son of a Sir Henry Wardlaw of Torry, a middling knight of Fife. Before becoming bishop, Walter 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 de Wardlaw" in the English Nation. By this stage, he was already a canon of Glasgow, with a prebend in Glasgow and another in the diocese of St Andrews. Yet a petition of 1349 to the papacy has Walter requesting the church of "Dunenach" in the diocese of Aberdeen. By 1359, he is rector of Erol and archdeacon of Lothian.

After the death on 27 January 1367 of William Rae, Bishop of Glasgow, Pope Urban V, who had previously reserved the see for his own appointment, advanced Walter as bishop. The canons of Glasgow had already elected him, but the pope declared the election void before himself providing the same man to the bishopric. On 23 December 1383, during the Western Schism in which the Kingdom of Scotland sided with the Avignon Papacy, Avignon Pope Clement VII made Walter a cardinal priest (without title, that is, title to any church in Rome to which he would have been theoretically attached). In the following year, on 24 November 1384, the same pope granted Wardlaw with the powers of a legate in Scotland and Ireland. At this point in time, cardinals had to "vacate" their bishoprics upon becoming a cardinal, and so Wardlaw ceased using the title "Bishop of Glasgow". However, after a papal grant he retained administration of the diocese and continued to use his Glaswegian episcopal seal. Walter was frequently used as a diplomat for the Scottish crown in its relations with the Kingdom of England. For instance, in June, 1369, Walter was ambassador in England, and in 1384, he was one of the plenipotentiaries involved in negotiating the truce of 1384. Henry Wardlaw, future Bishop of St Andrews, was Walter's nephew. Henry was one of three nephews to whom Walter offered patronage and assistance gaining benefices.

Wardlaw probably died in September 1387.

References

Dowden, John, The Bishops of Scotland, ed. J. Maitland Thomson, (Glasgow, 1912)

Religious titles
Preceded by William Rae	Bishop of Glasgow 1367–87	Succeeded by Matthew de Glendonwyn

Bishops and Archbishops of Glasgow

Pre-Reformation Bishops	Magsuen John Scotus Michael of Glasgow John Capellanus Herbert of Selkirk Enguerrand Jocelin Hugh de Roxburgh William de Malveisin Florence of Holland Walter Capellanus William de Bondington Nicholas de Moffat John de Cheam Nicholas de Moffat William Wishart Robert Wishart Stephen de Dunnideer John de Lindsay John de Egglescliffe John Wishart William Rae Walter Wardlaw Matthew de Glendonwyn William de Lauder John Cameron James Bruce William Turnbull Andrew de Durisdeer John Laing George Carmichael Robert Blackadder

Pre-Reformation Archbishops	Robert Blackadder James Beaton (elder) Gavin Dunbar Alexander Gordon James Beaton (younger)

Post-Reformation Archbishops	James Beaton (younger) John Porterfield James Boyd of Trochrig Robert Montgomery William Erskine James Beaton (younger) John Spottiswoode James Law Patrick Lindsay Andrew Fairfoul Alexander Burnet Robert Leighton Alexander Burnet Arthur Rose Alexander Cairncross John Paterson

Modern Roman Catholic Archbishops	Charles Eyre John Maguire Donald Mackintosh Donald Campbell James Scanlan Thomas Winning Mario Conti Philip Tartaglia

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