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John Ireland

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Johannes de Irlandia
Born:
c. 1435
Died:
c. 1500
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John Ireland (born c. 1435—died c. 1500) was a Scottish writer, theologian, and diplomatist, whose treatise The Meroure of Wyssdome is the earliest extant example of original Scots prose. Ireland left the University of St. Andrews without taking a degree and attended the University of Paris (licentiate, 1460). He lived in France until 1483–84, becoming a doctor of theology and being sent on several diplomatic missions by Louis XI. On Louis’s death he returned to Scotland and became private chaplain to James III. He was rector of Yarrow and sat in the Scottish parliament. When James died in 1488, he ...(100 of 136 words)

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