Alexander de Lawedre

Alexander de Lawedre (c. 1396 – 11 October 1440, Edinburgh) was for the last five months of his life Bishop of Dunkeld, where he had previously been Archdeacon.

There is confusion amongst writers and copyists with his parentage, with some giving him as a son of Alan de Lawedre of Haltoun. However a contemporary Supplication and, later, Keith, give him as "brother-german" to William de Lawedre, Bishop of Glasgow. Alexander Lauder was a son of Sir Robert de Lawedre of Edrington (d.1425) by his spouse Annabella.

In 1413, he was still a student of Canon Law at the University of Paris, but was permitted to hold two incompatible benefices. In 1416 he had graduated with a B.C.L. at which time he held the perpetual vicarage of Roxburgh, and the Archdeaconry of Dunkeld, when he was collated to the church at Ratho, under the patronage of the Forresters, one of whom had married (before 1408) Sir Alexander Lauder of Haltoun, Knt. By 1418 he was recorded as a Licentiate in Canon Law. In a supplication recorded at Rome on 2 December 1420 it states: 'Nova proviso' (new provision) by (formerly, before his deposition), Peter de Luna (Avignon Pope Benedict XIII) who gave His mandate of provision of the parish church of Ratho, Diocese of St. Andrews, to Alexander de Lawedre, subdeacon of the said diocese, brother of the Bishop of Glasgow, Licentiate in Decrees of Paris and Archdeacon of Dunkeld, who obtained peaceable possession of same.

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