David Beaton
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David Beaton was Archbishop of St Andrews and the last Scottish cardinal prior to the Reformation.
David Beaton
19th-century engraving of Cardinal Beaton
Statue of Cardinal David Beaton, Scottish National Portrait Gallery
Beaton saw himself as a devoted servant of the Crown. These royal arms are from his apartments in St. Andrews Castle, Fife.
Archbishop of St Andrews
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The Bishop of St. Andrews was the ecclesiastical head of the Diocese of St Andrews in the Catholic Church and then, from 14 August 1472, as Archbishop of St Andrews, the Archdiocese of St Andrews.
Saint Andrew depicted on a coat-of-arms of the burgh, now in the St. Andrews Museum