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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.

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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.

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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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