Tour Scotland 4K travel video, with Scottish music, of the Robert Blacader Memorial stained glass window on ancestry, genealogy, family history visit to the Cathedral in Glasgow. This Scottish cathedral is also called the High Kirk of Glasgow or St Kentigern's or St Mungo's Cathedral, is today part of of the Church of Scotland. 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. Archbishop Robert Blackadder died on 28 July 1508, while en route to Jerusalem on pilgrimage. Robert was the younger brother of Patrick Blackadder of Tulliallan, a middling Fife laird. 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. The following year, 1465, he graduated as licentiate. In 1471 King James III of Scotland sent him as a messenger to Pope Paul II. It was probably while at Rome that Robert secured from the pope the abbacy of Melrose in the Borders. He was elected as bishop of Aberdeen sometime in 1480. Archbishop Robert was one of the leading figures of the regime of King James IV. Robert was involved in a number on embassies of James' behalf, including embassies to England, France, Italy, and Spain. In September 1491 he went to France with Patrick Hepburn, 1st Earl of Bothwell and the Dean of Glasgow to renew the Auld Alliance.[3] He then travelled on to the Court of the Sforza in Milan, where the Madonna Bona showed him the sights. On 24 August 1495 he arrived at the court of King Ferdinand II of Aragon and Queen Isabella I of Castile. A letter, dated 12 September that year, was written by these monarchs to the pope urging that Archbishop Robert be made Cardinal. Nothing seems to have come of it. Blackadder was back in Scotland by Christmas but returned to Spain the following spring. His business was obtaining a bride for his king. The same business also took him to France. However, it was in England that a bride was eventually obtained, Margaret Tudor, the daughter of King Henry VII of England.
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