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Walter Trail Bishop of St Andrews Church Roman Catholic Church Diocese St Andrews Appointed 29 November 1385 Predecessor Stephen de Pa Successor Thomas Stewart Personal details Died 1401 (1402) St Andrews, Scotland

**Walter Trail** (died 1401; also spelled **Trayl**)[1] was a late 14th-century [bishop of St. Andrews](/source/Bishop_of_St._Andrews).

He appears as an official in the [Bishopric of Glasgow](/source/Bishop_of_Glasgow) in 1378, as a [Magister Artium](/source/Magister_Artium) and a [licentiate](/source/Licentiate_(degree)) in [canon](/source/Canon_law) and [civil law](/source/Civil_law_(common_law)). In 1380, he had a [doctorate](/source/Doctorate) in canon and civil law, as well as being a [Papal](/source/Pope) [chaplain](/source/Chaplain) and [auditor](/source/Auditor). In this year, [Pope Clement VII](/source/Avignon_Pope_Clement_VII) (an "[anti-Pope](/source/Antipope)") granted him the [deanery](/source/Deanery) of the [Bishopric of Dunkeld](/source/Bishop_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](/source/Stephen_de_Pa).

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

## References

- [Dowden, John](/source/John_Dowden), *The Bishops of Scotland*, ed. J. Maitland Thomson, (Glasgow, 1912)

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** Ashley, Mike (7 June 2012). [*The Mammoth Book of British Kings and Queens*](https://books.google.com/books?id=1OqdBAAAQBAJ&q=trayl&pg=PT44). Little, Brown Book Group. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [9781472101136](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/9781472101136) – via Google Books.

Religious titles Preceded by Stephen de Pa (unconsecrated) William de Landallis Bishop of St Andrews (Cill Rìmhinn) 1385–1401 Succeeded by Thomas Stewart, Walter de Danyelston and Gilbert Greenlaw (all unconsecrated) Henry Wardlaw

v t e Bishops and archbishops of St Andrews Known pre-Norman era bishops Cellach I Fothad I Máel Ísu I Cellach II Máel Muire Máel Ísu II Ailín Máel Dúin Túathal Fothad II Giric Cathróe Scoto-Norman era bishops Turgot of Durham Eadmer Robert of Scone Ernald Richard the Chaplain Hugh the Chaplain John Scotus Roger de Beaumont Geoffrey de Liberatione William de Malveisin David de Bernham Robert de Stuteville Abel de Gullane Gamelin William Wishart William Fraser William de Lamberton James Bane William Bell William de Landallis Stephen de Pa Walter Trail Thomas Stewart Walter de Danielston Gilbert de Greenlaw Henry Wardlaw James Kennedy Patrick Graham Pre-Reformation archbishops Patrick Graham William Scheves James Stewart, Duke of Ross Alexander Stewart John Hepburn Cardinal Innocenzo Cybo Andrew Forman James Beaton Cardinal David Beaton John Hamilton Gavin Hamilton Post-Reformation archbishops John Douglas Patrick Adamson George Gledstanes John Spottiswoode James Sharp Alexander Burnet Arthur Rose Afterwards, see also: Episcopal Archbishops of St Andrews, Bishops of St Andrews, Dunkeld and Dunblane (etc.) & Roman Catholic Archbishops of St Andrews and Edinburgh (etc.)

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