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Master John de Glasgow (~1340 – 1419)

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Current conclusion

Master John de Glasgow was a senior Scottish cleric documented between 1377 and 1412 and dead by 2 May 1419. His secure core is the same name and office—chancellor of the church of Dunkeld—in records of 1377 and 1384. Later records allow a cautious reconstruction through an exchange of benefices, service in Cardinal Walter Wardlaw's household, a Moray canonry, a 1406 safe-conduct and legal or proctorial work in 1412.

The records do not establish a birth year or parents. He must remain separate from the John de Glasgu paid in a royal account in 1343, because no repeated office, associate, benefice or patron bridges the thirty-four-year gap.

Secure career core

  • On 24 January 1377, a Glasgow episcopal charter named Johanne de Glasgu cancellario ecclesie Dunkeldensis—John de Glasgu, chancellor of the church of Dunkeld.[1]
  • On 2 June 1384, a Paisley instrument made at Dumbarton repeated the same personal name and chancellorship.[2]

The identical office makes these a high-confidence seven-year identity. In both records, de Glasgu is separate from the office.

Working reconstruction

Two safe-conduct entries dated 18 February 1379/80 and 7 December 1380 include John de Glasgow and Master John de Glasgow. They fit the chancellor's chronology and academic standing, but the current locator is a modern thesis appendix derived from an earlier unpublished thesis; the underlying enrolments still need direct verification.[3]

A Glasgow cathedral instrument dated 19 October 1388 names Johanne de Glasgw canonico Aberdonensi.[4] The name, date, senior clerical status and Glasgow setting make identity with the former Dunkeld chancellor probable, but the record does not repeat the chancellorship.

Later papal evidence reports that John exchanged the Dunkeld canonry, prebend and chancellorship with John Lang for the vicarage of Obney or Auchtergaven around 1387 and that John belonged to Cardinal Walter Wardlaw's household.[5][6] These notices are retrospective but strengthen the reconstruction.

John was styled canon of Moray in 1404, included in a safe-conduct in 1406 and named as a priest acting in a legal or proctorial case in 1412.[7][8][9]

Obney was described as vacant by John's death outside the Roman Curia on 2 May 1419; a 1425 petition again referred to his death.[10][11]

Evidence assessment

Group Assessment
1377 and 1384 Dunkeld chancellor Secure same man
1379/80 and 1380 safe-conducts Compatible; primary enrolments still to verify
1388 Aberdeen canon Probable same man
1405 and 1413 retrospective exchange notices Material supporting evidence
1404, 1406 and 1412 later career records Compatible working reconstruction
1419 and 1425 death notices Dead by 2 May 1419

Unresolved identity and career claims

John's birth about 1340, the vicarages of St Mary's Edrom and Kinkell, four 1394 petitions, support from Prince David and an association with William de Glasgu are possible research leads, but the cited record set does not establish them. William's 1394 petitions concern a separately named priest and do not connect him to John.

PoMS person 14528 concerns the separate Holyrood John of 1299, not this Dunkeld chancellor.

Sources

  1. ↑ Registrum Episcopatus Glasguensis, vol. I, p. 292; Internet Archive.
  2. ↑ Registrum Monasterii de Passelet (Edinburgh, 1832), p. 331, instrument dated 2 June 1384; Internet Archive.
  3. ↑ Robert Nicholson, A Reconsideration of the influence of John Wycliffe, Wycliffism, Lollardy and Hussitism, upon 15th Century Scotland (M.Res. thesis, University of the Highlands and Islands, 2024), appendix entries for 18 February 1379/80 and 7 December 1380; UHI Research Database.
  4. ↑ Registrum Monasterii de Passelet (Edinburgh, 1832), p. 340, instrument dated 19 October 1388; Internet Archive.
  5. ↑ Petitions to the Pope, 1342–1419, petition of John Lang, granted 19 August 1413; British History Online.
  6. ↑ Petitions to the Pope, 1342–1419, Petitions, vol. XCVIII, petition of John de Retro, granted at Genoa, 24 May 1405.
  7. ↑ Charters of the Abbey of Coupar Angus, vol. II, instrument of 14 November 1404, naming Johanne de Glasgw canonico Morauiensi; National Library of Scotland.
  8. ↑ Sir Thomas Duffus Hardy, ed., Syllabus (in English) of the Documents Relating to England and Other Kingdoms Contained in the Collection Known as “Rymer's Foedera”, vol. II, 1377–1654 (London, 1873), p. 556, entry dated 5 July 1406; Internet Archive.
  9. ↑ Papal record concerning Thomas Traill, 17 August 1412; National Library of Scotland.
  10. ↑ E. R. Lindsay and A. I. Cameron, eds., Calendar of Scottish Supplications to Rome, 1418–1422 (Edinburgh, 1934), p. 39.
  11. ↑ Calendar of Scottish Supplications to Rome, petition of John Malcolmi, Rome, 8 Id. September, year 8, register 190, fol. 46.

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