Adam Bothwell, Lord of Session, was a Scottish clergyman, judge, and politician. He served as Bishop of Okney (1559), Commendator of Holyrood House (1570), Extraordinary Lord of Session (1563-4), and as an Ordinary Lord of Session (1565). He was also a Member of the Privy Council.
Bothwell was a Commissioner to the marriage of Mary, Queen of Scots with Francis, the Dauphin of France. He later conducted the marriage of Mary to the Earl of Bothwell (1567), crowned the infant James VI (1567), and accompanied the Regent Moray to the Conference of York and Westminster in 1568.
Bothwell converted to Protestantism at the Reformation. He was briefly imprisoned at Stirling Castle in 1578. He held charters of the baronies of Alhammer or Whitekirk (1587-8) and Brighouse, in the Sherrifdom of Linlithgow (1592).
Bothwell was a Commissioner to the marriage of Mary, Queen of Scots with Francis, the Dauphin of France. He later conducted the marriage of Mary to the Earl of Bothwell (1567), crowned the infant James VI (1567), and accompanied the Regent Moray to the Conference of York and Westminster in 1568.
Bothwell converted to Protestantism at the Reformation. He was briefly imprisoned at Stirling Castle in 1578. He held charters of the baronies of Alhammer or Whitekirk (1587-8) and Brighouse, in the Sherrifdom of Linlithgow (1592).
Adam Bothwell, Lord of Session, was a Scottish clergyman, judge, and politician. He served as Bishop of Okney (1559), Commendator of Holyrood House (1570), Extraordinary Lord of Session (1563-4), and as an Ordinary Lord of Session (1565). He was also a Member of the Privy Council.
Bothwell was a Commissioner to the marriage of Mary, Queen of Scots with Francis, the Dauphin of France. He later conducted the marriage of Mary to the Earl of Bothwell (1567), crowned the infant James VI (1567), and accompanied the Regent Moray to the Conference of York and Westminster in 1568.
Bothwell converted to Protestantism at the Reformation. He was briefly imprisoned at Stirling Castle in 1578. He held charters of the baronies of Alhammer or Whitekirk (1587-8) and Brighouse, in the Sherrifdom of Linlithgow (1592).
Bothwell was a Commissioner to the marriage of Mary, Queen of Scots with Francis, the Dauphin of France. He later conducted the marriage of Mary to the Earl of Bothwell (1567), crowned the infant James VI (1567), and accompanied the Regent Moray to the Conference of York and Westminster in 1568.
Bothwell converted to Protestantism at the Reformation. He was briefly imprisoned at Stirling Castle in 1578. He held charters of the baronies of Alhammer or Whitekirk (1587-8) and Brighouse, in the Sherrifdom of Linlithgow (1592).
Inscription
Here lies interred a most noble man
Lord ADAM BOTHWELL,
Bishop of Orkney And Zetland;
Commendator of the Monastery of the
Holy Cross, Senator of the College of Justice,
and one of the Lords of his Majesty’s Privy Council;
who died in the 67th year of his age,
23rd day of the month of August,
in the year of our Lord 1593
(Translation from Latin, John Petrie, 1818)
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