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that Andrew Stewart be given the now vacant see of Caithness. The Pope agreed, and on 14 December 1517, Andrew Stewart became Bishop of Caithness. Thereafter...

Stewart (bishop of Moray) (1442–1501), Scottish prelate and administrator Andrew Stewart (bishop of Caithness, died 1517), Bishop of Caithness and Treasurer...

Huntly. Andrew Stewart, Bishop of Caithness. Lady Jean (or Janet) Stewart, married by contract dated 31 August 1507, James Arbuthnott of Arbuthnott. He had...

Bishop of Caithness was the ecclesiastical head of the Diocese of Caithness, one of Scotland's 13 medieval bishoprics. The first referenced bishop of...

The next governor in 1488 was Sir James Dunbar. In 1507 Andrew Stewart, Bishop of Caithness carried out improvements after the castle had been assaulted...

of Badenoch Illegitimate sons Stewart of Atholl David Stewart, Earl of Strathearn Walter Stewart, Earl of Atholl Alan Stewart, 4th Earl of Caithness David...

(1410–1480), 1st Earl of Caithness (1455–1476), last Earl (Jarl) of Orkney (1434–1470 de facto, –1472 de jure), 2nd Lord Sinclair and 11th Baron of Roslin was a...

Archdeacon of Caithness was the only archdeacon in the Diocese of Caithness, acting as a deputy of the Bishop of Caithness. The following is a list of known...

of Orkney and Caithness 1457–1460: George Shoreswood, Bishop of Brechin 1460–1482: Andrew Stewart, 1st Lord Avandale 1482–1483: John Laing, Bishop of...

1390) was King of Scots from 1371 to his death in 1390. The son of Walter Stewart, 6th High Steward of Scotland, and Marjorie, daughter of King Robert the...

Baronet had been instigated to do so by Andrew Stewart who was the Bishop of Caithness. William Sutherland, 7th of Duffus made strenuous effort's to avenge...

Bishop of Caithness, who was then high treasurer and who also acted as chamberlain of Sutherland. It was not until December 1512 that possession of the...

Alexander Stewart, Earl of Buchan, called the Wolf of Badenoch (1343 – July 1394), was a Scottish royal prince, the third son of King Robert II of Scotland...

officers and men were principally natives of Caithness, it was at first called the Caithness Fencibles; but the Prince of Wales having granted permission that...

Bishop of Caithness and Provost of Dumbarton College. On 6 January 1579 Lord Lennox married Elizabeth Stewart, daughter of John Stewart, 4th Earl of Atholl...

government of Scotland, the Privy Council of Scotland. The full title of the post was Lord High Treasurer, Comptroller, Collector-General and Treasurer of the...

first wife Catherine Sinclair, daughter of William Sinclair, Earl of Orkney and Earl of Caithness. The marriage of his parents was dissolved in 1478 and...

Walter Stewart, 1st Earl of Atholl (b. 1360 – d. 1437), married Margaret Barclay, Lady of Brechin, of Clan Barclay Alan Stewart, 4th Earl of Caithness (d...

substantially rebuilt by Bishop Andrew Stewart (1482–1501), whose coat of arms is placed on the central pillar. Bishop Andrew was the half-brother of King James II...

built around 1500 as the home of the bishops of Caithness. Bishop Robert Stewart gifted the castle to John Gordon, 11th Earl of Sutherland in 1557. In 1570...