Robert Forman (died 1530) was a late medieval
Scottish
Scottish usually refers to something of, from, or related to Scotland, including:
*Scottish Gaelic, a Celtic Goidelic language of the Indo-European language family native to Scotland
*Scottish English
*Scottish national identity, the Scottish ide ...
churchman. He was the son of one Janet Blackadder and her husband, a
Berwickshire landowner named Nicholas Forman of Hatton. Sometime before 11 February 1500, he was made
Precentor of Glasgow. He was
Dean of Glasgow from 1505, a position he would hold until his death. Between 1506 and 1511 he was also in possession of the
Chancellor
Chancellor ( la, cancellarius) is a title of various official positions in the governments of many nations. The original chancellors were the of Roman courts of justice—ushers, who sat at the or lattice work screens of a basilica or law cou ...
ship of the
diocese of Moray.
After the death of
William Elphinstone (d. 24 October 1514), the
bishopric of Aberdeen
Diocese of Aberdeen was one of the 13 (14, after 1633) dioceses of the Scottish church, before the abolition of the episcopacy in 1689.
Early history
A see was founded in 1063 at Mortlach by Blessed Beyn. The earliest mention of the See of ...
became vacant. At
Rome Pope Leo X provided Forman to the vacant see. However, the
canons of Aberdeen prepared to elect a successor. According to
John Spottiswoode,
Alexander Gordon, 3rd Earl of Huntly, pressured the canons to elect his own cousin, also
Alexander Gordon, a man who was at that time the
Precentor of
Moray
Moray () gd, Moireibh or ') is one of the 32 local government council areas of Scotland. It lies in the north-east of the country, with a coastline on the Moray Firth, and borders the council areas of Aberdeenshire and Highland.
Between 1975 ...
. Forman was persuaded by his brother
Andrew Forman,
Archbishop of St Andrews, to yield his claim to Gordon upon the promise of the next vacancy.
[Dowden, ''Bishops of Scotland'', pp. 135-6; Innes, ''Registrum'', pp. li-ii.]
He never, however, obtained any other bishopric. He died as Dean of Glasgow on 19 November 1530.
Notes
References
*
Dowden, John, ''The Bishops of Scotland'', ed. J. Maitland Thomson, (Glasgow, 1912)
*
Innes, Cosmo, ''Registrum Episcopatus Aberdonensis: Ecclesie Cathedralis Aberdonensis Regesta Que Extant in Unum Collecta'', Vol. 1, (Edinburgh, 1845)
* Keith, Robert, ''An Historical Catalogue of the Scottish Bishops: Down to the Year 1688'', (London, 1924)
* McGladdery, C. A., "Forman, Andrew (c.1465–1521)", in the ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, 200
, Retrieved 1 May 2007*
Watt, D.E.R., ''Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae Medii Aevi ad annum 1638'', 2nd Draft, (St Andrews, 1969)
{{DEFAULTSORT:Forman, Robert
15th-century births
1530 deaths
Bishops of Aberdeen
People from Berwickshire
Roman Catholic deans