# Patrick Panter

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**Patrick Panter**[\[a\]](#endnote_a) (born c. 1470 - 1519) Scottish churchman and principal secretary to [James IV of Scotland](/source/James_IV_of_Scotland) and the infant [James V](/source/James_V).

## Life

Panter was born around 1470 at the village of Newmanswells near [Montose](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Montose&action=edit&redlink=1). He was educated in Paris. On his return, without taking holy orders, he became Rector of [Fetteresso](/source/Kirkton_of_Fetteresso) in the [Mearns](/source/Kincardineshire) and Vicar of [Kilmany](/source/Kilmany) in Fife. Panter was also the Preceptor of the Hospital of St Mary in Montrose in 1507. James IV first made him the teacher of his illegitimate son [Alexander Stewart](/source/Alexander_Stewart_(Archbishop_of_St_Andrews)), and shortly afterwards his first secretary. Alexander went to Italy with [Erasmus](/source/Erasmus), and Panter became tutor to the king's brother, the [Earl of Moray](/source/James_Stewart%2C_1st_Earl_of_Moray_(1501_creation)).

As rewards, ecclesiastical titles piled up, and next Panter became Archdeacon and Chancellor of [Dunkeld](/source/Dunkeld), and Archdeacon of [Moray](/source/Moray) in 1509. He exchanged some of these livings to become Rector of [Tannadice](/source/Tannadice%2C_Angus) in [Angus](/source/Angus%2C_Scotland) in 1510. In 1513 he became [Abbot of Cambuskenneth](/source/Abbot_of_Cambuskenneth). Panter hoped to become Preceptor of [Torphichen](/source/Torphichen), and [Henry VIII of England](/source/Henry_VIII_of_England) wrote to [Leo X](/source/Leo_X) in his favour, but it was not to be.[1] Panter held a papal dispensation for holding these church appointments while still not a priest, on account of his duties as royal secretary.[2]

In 1510, Panter was made Customar General of Scotland. In 1511 James IV wrote to the Pope mentioning that only letters for Scotland with Panter's countersignature could be trusted. In 1513 he donned armour at the [Battle of Flodden](/source/Battle_of_Flodden) and directed the field artillery, even helping to fire the guns. In May 1515 the [Duke of Albany](/source/John_Stewart%2C_Duke_of_Albany) identified him as a Douglas supporter and he was imprisoned on the Isle of [Inchgarvie](/source/Inchgarvie). Soon Panter gained the Duke's confidence and he was included in a diplomatic mission to Paris in July 1517. Panter fell ill and remained in Paris where he died two years later.

[David Panter](/source/David_Panter), secretary to [Mary, Queen of Scots](/source/Mary%2C_Queen_of_Scots) and [John Lesley](/source/John_Lesley), [Bishop of Ross](/source/Bishop_of_Ross_(Scotland)), was his illegitimate son.[3] David's mother was Margaret Crichton, an illegitimate daughter of William Crichton, [Lord Crichton](/source/Lord_Crichton) and [Margaret Stewart](/source/Princess_Margaret_Stewart_of_Scotland), James IV's aunt.[4]

Panter restored the Hospital of St. Mary in [Montrose](/source/Montrose%2C_Angus) and was its Preceptor. Carved panels bearing his family heraldry, originally from the Hospital, which were discovered in re-use in a private house in Montrose in the 19th century, are displayed in the [National Museum of Scotland](/source/National_Museum_of_Scotland) in Edinburgh. They are among the most important and well-preserved examples surviving from the relatively small corpus of late medieval Scottish woodwork.[5]

## Nephew

A nephew of Patrick, [William Lamb](/source/William_Lamb_alias_Paniter) adopted his uncle's surname and later wrote *Ane Resonyng*, a propaganda work addressing the issues of the war of the [Rough Wooing](/source/Rough_Wooing).

## Notes

- a Alternatively spelled 'Paniter' or 'Painter'

## Sources

- William Fraser ed., *The Cartulary of Cambuskenneth, Registrum Monasterii S. Marie de Cambuskenneth* (Grampian Club, 1872), pp. lxii-lxxxvii.

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** Hay, Denys ed., *Letters of James V* (HMSO, 1954), p. 17.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** Hay, Denys ed., *Letters of James V* (HMSO, 1954), pp. 58-59.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** Mackie & Spilman ed., *The Letters of James IV* (Edinburgh, 1953), pp. xxxviii-xxxiv, no. 360.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** *Accounts of the Lord High Treasurer*, vol. 10 (Edinburgh, 1913), p. lxxx.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-5)** *Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries Scotland*, vol. 73, p. 325.

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