Nicholas Otterbourne or Otterburn (c.1400–1462) was a Scottish churchman and official,
clerk register of Scotland and a diplomat.
Life
Otterbourne is mentioned on 9 January 1450 as
Master of Arts
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, canon of
Glasgow Cathedral
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, and official of
Lothian; on 20 March 1450 as secretary to
James II of Scotland, and in 1454 as clerk of the rolls. He was one of those who had been sent in February 1448 to France on a confidential mission in connection with the king's marriage. On 3 November 1450 he had a warrant of safe-conduct for three months to pass into France; on 3 June 1455 a warrant from the king of England for a safe-conduct to England for four months; and on 11 May 1456 a warrant for three months. On 13 July 1459 he had a safe-conduct, with others, into England to confer with English commissioners at
Newcastle upon Tyne
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.
Works
He is stated to have been the author of ''Epithalamium Jacobi II, Lib. 1.''
Notes
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15th-century Scottish Roman Catholic priests
1462 deaths
Year of birth unknown
Medieval Scottish diplomats
15th-century diplomats
Year of birth uncertain
Vicars of St Giles' Cathedral