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3 unusual facts about Robert Blackadder


Robert Blackadder

Archbishop Robert Blackadder died on July 28, 1508 while en route to Jerusalem on pilgrimage.

Robert studied at the University of St Andrews (where his name is listed among the students in either 1461 or 1462), and in 1464 he was received as a bachelor in the University of Paris.

Robert Blackadder was a medieval Scottish cleric, diplomat and politician, who was abbot of Melrose, bishop-elect of Aberdeen and bishop of Glasgow; when the last was elevated to archiepiscopal status in 1492, he became the first ever archbishop of Glasgow.



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