Bower, Walter

Bower, Walter

▪ Scottish historian
born 1385, Haddington, Lothian [now in East Lothian], Scotland
died 1449

      author of the Scotichronicon, the first connected history of Scotland, which expands and continues the work of John Of Fordun.

      Bower probably entered the church at St. Andrews and became abbot of Inchcolm, an island in the Firth of Forth, in 1417, after which he was named in papal and royal records, notably as an unsuccessful claimant of the abbacy of Holyrood (1420), an opponent of peace with England (1432), and an auditor for Parliament.

      Begun in 1441, the Scotichronicon was finished in 1447, the last date it mentions. In addition to Fordun's work, Bower relied upon the chronicles of Andrew of Wyntoun (Wyntoun, Andrew of). First printed in 1722 from late 15th-century manuscripts, the Scotichronicon exists in several copies, that at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, being apparently the author's manuscript. It was edited and translated by D.E.R. Watt (1997–98).

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