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ANDREW FORMAN (c. 1465-1521)

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Originally appearing in Volume V10, Page 668 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ANDREW See also:FORMAN (c. 1465-1521)  , Scottish ecclesiastic, was educated at the university of St See also:Andrews and entered the service of See also:King See also:James IV. about 1489 . He soon earned the favour of this king, who treated him with See also:great generosity and who on several occasions sent him on important embassies to the See also:English, the See also:French and the papal courts . In 15o1 he became See also:bishop of See also:Moray and in See also:July 1513 See also:Louis XII. of See also:France secured his See also:appointment as See also:archbishop of See also:Bourges, while See also:pope See also:Julius II. promised to make him a See also:cardinal . In 1514 during a See also:long See also:absence from his own See also:land See also:Forman was nominated by Pope See also:Leo X. to the vacant archbishopric of St Andrews and was made papal See also:legate in See also:Scotland, but it was some See also:time before he secured See also:possession of the see owing to the attempts of See also:Henry VIII. to subject Scotland to See also:England and to the efforts of his rivals, Gavin See also:Douglas, the poet, and See also:John See also:Hepburn, See also:prior of St Andrews, and their sup-porters . Eventually, however, he resigned some of his many benefices, the holding of which had made him unpopular, and through the See also:good offices of the See also:regent, John See also:Stewart, See also:duke of See also:Albany, obtained the coveted archbishopric and the primacy of Scotland . Afterwards he was one of the See also:vice-regents of the See also:kingdom and he died on the r rth of See also:March 1521 . As archbishop he issued a See also:series of constitutions which are printed in J . See also:Robert-son's See also:Comilla Scotiae (1866) . Mr See also:Andrew See also:Lang (See also:History of Scotland, vol. i.) describes Forman as "the See also:Wolsey of Scotland, and a fomenter of the See also:war which ended at See also:Flodden." See the See also:biography of the archbishop which forms vol. ii. pf The Archbishops of St Andrews, by J . Herkless and R . K . See also:Hannay (19o9) .

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