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Name |
George Douglas |
Prefix |
Bishop |
Gender |
Male |
Death |
28 Dec 1589 |
Holyrood, Edinburgh, Scotland |
Person ID |
I103437 |
My Genealogy |
Last Modified |
17 Nov 2020 |
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Notes |
- GEORGE DOUGLAS, natural son of Archibald, sixth Earl of Angus; legitimated under the Great Seal 14th March 1542-3. After the assassination of Cardinal Beaton, the Abbacy of Arbroath was conferred upon him by the governor, but there is no record of any confirmation among the Vatican papers, and in John Knox's History (1584) he is still called " Postulate of Arbroath." On 2nd May 1572 he appears as Commendator of Arbroath ; is said to have taken a leading part in the murder of Riccio ; elected Bishop 23rd Dec. 1573, and consecrated after 5th Feb. 1574 ; was delated in the General Assembly 6th March following on a charge of immorality committed with Agnes Scott, widow of Thomas Dishington of Ardross, and ordered "to purge himself before the Assembly," which he seems to have succeeded in doing ; was under process of horning in April 1576 on an unrecorded charge ; died 28th Dec. 1589, and was buried at Holyrood. He had a natural son, Andrew, student in Stirling, who died before 1st April 1586. [Scots Peerage, i., 192 ; Reg. Sec. Sig., liii., 152 ; Calderwood s Hist., iii., 297, 330 ; Dowden s Bishops, 413.]
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