Walter Trail

{{Infobox Christian leader | type = | honorific_prefix = | name = | honorific_suffix = | title = [[Bishop of St Andrews]] | image = | image_size = | alt = | caption = | native_name = | native_name_lang = | church = [[Roman Catholic Church]] | archdiocese = | province = | metropolis = | diocese = [[Archdiocese of St Andrews|St Andrews]] | see = | appointed = 29 November 1385 | elected = | term = | enthroned = | began = | term_start = | quashed = | ended = 1401 | term_end = | predecessor = [[Stephen de Pa]] | successor = [[Thomas Stewart (bishop of St Andrews)|Thomas Stewart]] | opposed = | other_post = | ordination = | ordained_by = | consecration = | consecrated_by = | cardinal = | rank = | created_cardinal_by = | birth_name = | birth_date = | birth_place = | baptised = | baptized = | death_date = 1401 | death_place = [[St Andrews]], [[Kingdom of Scotland|Scotland]] | buried = | nationality = | religion = | residence = | parents = | spouse = | children = | occupation = | previous_post = | profession = | alma_mater = | signature = | coat_of_arms = | motto = | resting_place_coordinates = | education = | signature_alt = | coat_of_arms_alt = | feast_day = | venerated = | saint_title = | beatified_date = | beatified_place = | beatified_by = | canonized_date = | canonized_place = | canonized_by = | attributes = | patronage = | shrine = | suppressed_date = | other = | module = | module2 = | retired = | laicized = }}{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2022}} '''Walter Trail''' (died 1401; also spelled '''Trayl''')<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1OqdBAAAQBAJ&q=trayl&pg=PT44|title=The Mammoth Book of British Kings and Queens|first=Mike|last=Ashley|date=7 June 2012|publisher=Little, Brown Book Group|isbn=9781472101136 |via=Google Books}}</ref> was a late 14th-century [[bishop of St. Andrews]].

He appears as an official in the [[Bishop of Glasgow|Bishopric of Glasgow]] in 1378, as a [[Magister Artium]] and a [[Licentiate (degree)|licentiate]] in [[Canon law|canon]] and [[Civil law (common law)|civil law]]. In 1380, he had a [[doctorate]] in canon and civil law, as well as being a [[Pope|Papal]] [[chaplain]] and [[auditor]]. In this year, [[Avignon Pope Clement VII|Pope Clement VII]] (an "[[antipope|anti-Pope]]") granted him the [[deanery]] of the [[Bishop of Dunkeld|Bishopric of Dunkeld]]. He became treasurer of the Bishopric of Glasgow in either 1381 or 1382. On 29 November 1385, the Pope provided him to the vacant Bishopric of St. Andrews, vacant because of the capture and death of the previous bishop-elect, [[Stephen de Pa]].

Trail was an active bishop, and ardent defender of the rights of the church within [[Scotland]]. He constructed the [[castle]] at St. Andrews. It was there that he died in 1401.

==References== *[[John Dowden|Dowden, John]], ''The Bishops of Scotland'', ed. J. Maitland Thomson, (Glasgow, 1912) {{reflist}} {{s-start}} {{s-rel}} {{succession box | title=[[Bishop of St Andrews|Bishop of St Andrews (Cill Rìmhinn)]] | before=[[Stephen de Pa]] (unconsecrated) [[William de Landallis]]| after=[[Thomas Stewart (bishop of St Andrews)|Thomas Stewart]], [[Walter de Danyelston]] and [[Gilbert Greenlaw]] (all unconsecrated) [[Henry Wardlaw]]| years=1385–1401}} {{s-end}} {{Bishops of St Andrews}}

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