Ingram Lindsay

infobox bishopbiog
name = Ingram Lindsay


religion= Roman Catholic Church
See = Diocese of Aberdeen
Title = Bishop of Aberdeen
Period = 1441–1458
consecration = 1441
Predecessor = Henry de Lichton
Successor = Thomas Spens
post = Precentor of Moray| ordination =
bishops =
date of birth = Late 1300s or early 1400s
place of birth = Scotland.
date of death = death date|1458|8|24|mf=y
place of death = Aberdeen

Ingram Lindsay [Ingeram de Lindesay] , Doctor in Canon Law, was a 15th century Scottish cleric. Despite being of illegitimate birth - one of several sons of an unmarried nobleman and an unmarried girl - he nevertheless managed in the end to pursue a successful ecclesiastical career.

Pope Martin V provided him as Archdeacon of Dunkeld on January 21, 1421, but this was unsuccessful; [Watt, "Fasti Ecclesiae", p. 120.] likewise he was Dean of the Collegiate Church of Dunbar in 1422, but only for a year or under. [Watt, "Fasti Ecclesiae", p. 354.] Ingram was in possession of the church of "Kynnore" (Kinnoir), a Moray prebend, by 1430, and possessed a canonry and prebend in the diocese of Brechin and a vicarage in the diocese of Glasgow when he was made Precentor of Elgin Cathedral in 1431, a position he held until 1441. [Watt, "Fasti Ecclesiae", p. 223.] He had also briefly been Chancellor of Moray between 1430 and 1431. [Watt, "Fasti Ecclesiae", p. 227.]

It was in 1441 that Ingram attained the peak of his career, being elected Bishop of Aberdeen by the chapter; he was confirmed in this position by Pope Eugenius IV on April 28. [Watt, "Fasti Ecclesiae", p. 3.] Not too much can be said about Ingram's episcopate. Among other things, Bishop Ingram is known to have put a stone roof on Aberdeen Cathedral, paved its floor with free stone and added the churches of Monymusk and Ruthven to the cathedral prebends. [Dowden, "Bishops of Scotland", p. 123; Keith, "Historical Catalogue", p. 111.] He is said to have fallen out with the king, James II of Scotland, by refusing to accommodate James' wish that some benefices be bestowed on certain royal followers. [Keith, "Historical Catalogue", p. 111.] Ingram died at Aberdeen on August 24 1458. [Keith, "Historical Catalogue", p. 111; Watt, "Fasti Ecclesiae", p. 227.] Bishop Ingram was an active scholastic theologian, and is known to have written various theological and biblical commentaries. [Dowden, "Bishops of Scotland", p. 124.]

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References

* Dowden, John, "The Bishops of Scotland", ed. J. Maitland Thomson, (Glasgow, 1912)
* Keith, Robert, "An Historical Catalogue of the Scottish Bishops: Down to the Year 1688", (London, 1924)
* Watt, D.E.R., "Fasti Ecclesiae Scotinanae Medii Aevi ad annum 1638", 2nd Draft, (St Andrews, 1969)