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  Henry Wardlaw - LoveToKnow 1911
1440), Scottish prelate, was a son of Sir Andrew Wardlaw and a nephew of Walter Wardlaw (d.
Educated at the universities of Oxford and of Paris, Henry Wardlaw returned to Scotland about 1385, and owing to his influential connexions received many benefices in the Church.
Wardlaw's chief title to fame is the fact that he was the founder of the university of St Andrews, the first Scottish university.
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  Henry Wardlaw   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Educated at the universities of Oxford and of Paris, Henry Wardlaw returned to Scotland in about 1385, and his influential connections obtained him several church benefices.
Wardlaw's chief claim to fame is the fact that he was the founder of the University of St Andrews, the first university in Scotland.
He issued the charter of foundation in February 1411, and the privileges of the new seat of learning were confirmed by a bull of the Avignon Pope Benedict XIII, dated August 28, 1413.
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 Elizabeth, Lady Wardlaw - LoveToKnow 1911
ELIZABETH WARDLAW, Lady (1677-1727), reputed author of Hardyknute, second daughter of Sir Charles Halket, was born in April 1677.
She married in 1696 Sir Henry Wardlaw, Bart., of Pitreavie.
The ballad of Hardyknute, published in 1719 as an old poem, was supposed to have been discovered by her in a vault at Dunfermline, but no MS.
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 Henry Wardlaw
WARDLAW, HENRY, bishop of St Andrews, and founder of the university there, was descended from the Wardlaws of Torry, in Fife, and was nephew to Walter Wardlaw, bishop of Glasgow, who was created a cardinal by pope Urban VI., in the year 1381.
Notwithstanding this, Wardlaw was celebrated for his charity; and though he laboured to suppress the riotous living which had become so general in the kingdom, he was yet a man of boundless hospitality.
Wardlaw departed this life in his castle of St.Andrews, on the 6th day of April, 1440, and was buried in the church of that city, with great pomp and splendour, having held his dignified situation for nearly forty years.
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 Overview of Henry Wardlaw   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Born into a wealthy family, Wardlaw was educated at the Universities of Oxford and Paris.
Wardlaw was responsible for the restoration of St. Andrews Cathedral, but his most notable achievement was the foundation of St Andrews University, modelled on Paris, in 1411 (confirmed by Pope Benedict in 1413).
Wardlaw was buried in his cathedral at St Andrews.
www.geo.ed.ac.uk:81 /scotgaz/people/famousfirst1899.html   (201 words)

  
 MyClan.com : Armigerous Clan Wardlaw Home Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Wardlaw near Beauly was part of the lands of the Norman lord, John Bisset, perhaps as early as 1210.
His nephew, Henry Wardlaw, was also to become a bishop, and in 1410 he founded the University of St Andrews, obtaining a papal charter for it in 1413.
Sir Henry Wardlaw, chamberlain to Queen Anne, wife of James VI, acquired the lands of Pitreavie at the beginning of the seventeenth century.
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 Maxwell battle cry (Wardlaw)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The Wardlaws came frm Saxony in the 5th century and it is said that they held high positions in the law department of Saxon monarchs, and this is how they got their name.
Malcolm conferred on the Wardlaw nobles large estates in Galloway and in 1323 Henry Wardlaw married Mary Stewart, the daughter of James Stewart of Durisdeer.
Henry Wardlaw's father had married a sister of John Comyn of Galloway and they were all loyal to John Balliol (and Willam Wallace).
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 Henry Morton Wardlaw
Phillips very efficiently and dramatically sets up the blinding of Wardlaw, US Ambassador to Turkey, and his later installation in a New York City Penthouse where he poured over details of homicide investigations.
Wardlaw has a very promising beginning and I love the image of him brooding in his penthouse apartment with the sixty foot glass covered view in the backgound and "Ride of the Valkyrie" on the record player.
The fact is that while we are all familiar with the "third degree" scene and how what are now considered constitutional rights used to be violated, it is stunning to see it matter-of-factly done by the "good guys" in a novel even one published in 1942.
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 Dictionary of Meaning www.mauspfeil.net
Educated at the universities of university of Oxford Oxford and of university of Paris Paris, Henry Wardlaw returned to Scotland in about 1385, and his influential connections obtained him several church benefices.
He issued the charter of foundation in February 1411, and the privileges of the new seat of learning were confirmed by a bull of Antipope Benedict XIII the Avignon Pope Benedict XIII, dated August 28, 1413.
The university was to be "an impregnable rampart of doctors and masters to resist heresy."
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 Re: Sir Henry Wardlaw of Pitreavie
The Family of Wardlaw of Pitrivie is decended from Cuthbert Wardlaw of Balmule, a cadet of Torrie.
his son sir Henry Wardlaw of Pitrivie and Balmule was in high favour at court, and appointed in 1603 Chamberlin to Queen Anne of Scotland.
Re: Sir Henry Wardlaw of Pitreavie Sean Plowden-Wardlaw 6/27/02
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 Pitreavie Castle   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
A photocopy of the charter of confirmation of the grant of the lands of Pitreavie to Henry Wardlaw.
When all was over, the Wardlaws refused shelter or succour to the wounded, and in consequence of their infamous conduct that day, it was prophesied that they never more would prosper, but pass "like snaw off a dyke".
Henry Beveridge died In 1922, and shortly thereafter his widow and children moved into a smaller house which they had built on the edge of their estate, in "the Wilderness" (an area of Rosyth bounded by Queensferry Road and Woodside Road).
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 Scotland
Rosyth Castle in the navy shipyards at Rosyth, Dunfermline.
Bishop Henry Wardlaw was the nephew of Cardinal Walter Wardlaw, and founded the University of St. Andrews in 1411.
This Wardlaw stone is on the wall at Currie Kirk (church) where the Wardlaws went in the 1300's.
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 News Unlimited | Millennium
With King Henry IV in failing health, his robust son the Prince of Wales was taking an ever more active role in government.
In the event both factions reneged on their alliances, and Prince Henry was persuaded that military force alone could realise his ambitions in France.
To reinforce orthodox teaching, Bishop Henry Wardlaw established St Andrews University in 1411.
www.guardian.co.uk /Millennium/0,2833,311888,00.html   (550 words)

  
 wardlaw02
Sir Henry Wardlaw, 1st Bart of Pitreavie and Balmule (d 05.04.1637)
(29.03.1646) Elizabeth Wardlaw (dau of Sir Henry Wardlaw, 2nd Bart of Pitreavie)
Main source(s): BP1934 (Wardlaw, Bart of Pitreavie), BLG1952 (Wardlaw-Ramsay, formerly of Whitehill)
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 Wardlaw Family Genealogy Forum
Re: Wardlaws in Fife - Norma Gillich 8/30/07
Re: Sketch of Joseph Wardlaw ~ born in Ireland - Deborah Brownfield - Stanley 1/28/05
Re: Wardlaws of Fife, Scotland - Chastity Etheridge 12/09/05
genforum.genealogy.com /wardlaw   (3051 words)

  
 Wardlaw Family Genealogy Forum
Re: Sketch of Joseph Wardlaw ~ born in Ireland - Deborah Brownfield - Stanley 1/28/05
Re: Elma and Emma Wardlaw Ohio - Annette 8/12/01
Re: Elma and Emma Wardlaw Ohio - Annette 8/14/01
genforum.com /wardlaw   (2878 words)

  
 My Home Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
I do claim a familiarity and a love for anything to do with the Wardlaws as I have been studying them and working in genealogy for many years, and because I was born a Wardlaw in 1942.
For instance, the first Henry Wardlaw born in 1293 is #1, his wife Mary Stewart is #2 and on down.
I have sent an unbound copy of my book "Wardlaw Chronicle" to the Mormon Genealogy Library in Salt Lake City to be put on microfilm, and then to be hard-bound and put in their library there.
hometown.aol.com /ladath/WardBooks.html   (1040 words)

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