Laird Chancellor o Scotland

The Laird Chancellor o Scotland wis a Great Officer o State in pre-Union Scotland.

Leet o Laird Chancellors o Scotland

David I

• 1124-1126: John Capellanus
• 1126-1143: Herbert o Selkirk
• bef.1143-1145: Edward, Bishop o Aiberdeen
• c.1147–c.1150: William Comyn
• bef.1150-1153: Walter, possibly Walter fitz Alan

Malcolm IV

• 1153–1165: Enguerrand, Bishop o Glesga

William I

• 1165-1171: Nicholas
• c.1171-1178: Walter de Bidun, Bishop o Dunkeld
• c.1178–1189: Roger de Beaumont, Bishop o St Andras
• 1189–1199: Hugh de Roxburgh, Bishop o Glesga
• 1199–1202: William de Malveisin, Bishop o Glesga
• 1203-1210: Florence o Holland, Bishop-elect o Glesga
• 1211-1224: William del Bois, Airchdeacon o Lowden

Alexander II

• 1226-1227: Thomas de Stirling, Airchdeacon o Glesga
• 1227-1230: Matthew the Scot, Bishop-elect o Dunkeld
• 1231–1233: William de Bondington, Bishop o Glesga
• 1233-1249: Sir William de Lindsay

Alexander III

• 1249–1250: Robert de Keldeleth, Abbot o Dunfaurlin
• 1250-1253: Gamelin, Bishop o St Andras
• 1256–1257: Richard de Inverkeithing, Bishop o Dunkeld
• 1259-1273: William Wishart, Bishop o Glesga
• 1273–c.1279: William Fraser, Bishop o St Andras
• 1285-1291: Thomas Charteris, Airchdeacon o Lowden

Inglis Appyntees in the Interregnum

• 1291: Alan de St Edmund, Bishop o Caithness
• 1292: William de Dumfries
• 1292: Alan de Dumfries
• 1294-1295: Thomas de Hunsinghore
• 1295-1296: Alexander Kennedy
• c.1301–c.1305: Nicholas de Balmyle, Bishop o Dunblane

Robert I

• 1308–1328: Bernard, Abbot o Arbroath (later Bishop o the Isles)

David II

• 1328-1329: Walter de Twynham, Rector o Glesga Primo
• 1329-1332: Adam de Moravia, Bishop o Brechin
• 1338-1341: William Bullock, Chancellor tae Edward Baliol
• 1342: William de Bosco
• 1335x1340–1346: Sir Thomas Charteris
• 1350-1352: William Caldwell
• 1353–1370: Patrick de Leuchars, Bishop o Brechin

Robert II

• 1370–1377: John de Carrick, Bishop-elect o Dunkeld
• 1377–1390: John de Peebles, Bishop o Dunkeld

Robert III

• 1394: Duncan Petit, Airchdeacon o Glesga
• 1396-1421: Gilbert de Greenlaw, Bishop o Aiberdeen

James I

• 1422–1425: William Lauder, Bishop o Glesga
• 1426–1439: John Cameron, Bishop o Glesga

James II

• 1439–c.1444: William Crichton, 1st Laird Crichton
• 1444: James Kennedy, Archbishop o Saunt Andras
• 1444-1447: James Bruce, Bishop o Dunkeld an Glesga
• 1447–1453: William Crichton, 1st Laird Crichton,
• 1454–1456: William Sinclair, Yerl o Orkney an Caithness
• 1457–1460: George Shoreswood, Bishop o Brechin

James III

• 1460–1482: Andrew Stewart, 1st Laird Avandale
• 1482–1483: John Laing, Bishop o Glesga
• 1483: James Livingstone, Bishop o Dunkeld
• 1483–1488: Colin Campbell, 1st Yerl o Argyll

James IV

• 1488 (Feb–Jun): William Elphinstone, Bishop o Aiberdeen
• 1488–1492: Colin Campbell, 1st Yerl o Argyll
• 1493–1497: Archibald Douglas, 5t Yerl o Angus
• 1497–1501: George Gordon, 2nt Yerl o Huntly
• 1501–1504: James Stewart, Duke o Ross
• 1510–1513: Alexander Stewart (d. 1513), Archbishop o St Andras

James V

• 1513–1526: James Beaton, Archbishop o Glesga (later Archbishop o St Andras)
• 1527–1528: Archibald Douglas, 6t Yerl o Angus
• 1528–1543: Gavin Dunbar, Archbishop o Glesga

Mary I

• 1543–1546: David Beaton, Archbishop o St Andras
• 1546–1562: George Gordon, 4t Yerl o Huntly
• 1563–1566: James Douglas, 4t Yerl o Morton
• 1566–1567: George Gordon, 5t Yerl o Huntly

James VI

• 1567–1573: James Douglas, 4t Yerl o Morton
• 1573 (Jan–Sep): Archibald Campbell, 5t Yerl o Argyll
• 1573–1578: John Lyon, 8t Laird Glamis
• 1578–1579: John Stewart, 4t Yerl o Atholl
• 1579–1584: Colin Campbell, 6t Yerl o Argyll
• 1584–1585: James Stewart, Yerl o Arran
• 1586–1595: John Maitland, 1st Laird Maitland o Thirlestane
• 1599–1604: John Graham, 3rd Yerl o Munross
• 1604–1622: Alexander Seton, 1st Yerl o Dumfaurlin
• 1622–1634: George Hay, 1st Yerl o Kinnoull

Charles I

• 1635–1638: John Spottiswoode, Archbishop o St Andras
• 1638–1641: James Hamilton, 1st Duke o Hamilton
• 1641–1660: John Campbell, 1st Yerl o Loudoun

Charles II

• 1660–1664: William Cunningham, 9t Yerl o Glencairn
• 1664–1681: John Leslie, 7t Yerl o Rothes (1st Duke o Rothes frae 29 Mey 1680)
• 1681-1682: Office vacant
• 1682–1684: George Gordon, 1st Yerl o Aiberdeen

James VII

• 1684–1689: James Drummond, 4t Yerl o Perth

William III an Mary II

• 1689-1692: In commission
• 1692–1696: John Hay, 1st Marquess o Tweeddale
• 1696–1702: Patrick Hume, 1st Yerl o Marchmont

Anne

• 1702–1704: James Ogilvy, 1st Yerl o Seafield
• 1704–1705: John Hay, 2nt Marquess o Tweeddale
• 1705–1707: James Ogilvy, 1st Yerl o Seafield

References

Soorces

• Cowan, Samuel, The Lord Chancellors of Scotland Edinburgh 1911. [1]