Category Archives: Clergy

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Mark Ker c.1522-1584 Abbot of Newbattle

The second son of a wealthy Borders family, the Kers of Cessford, Mark Ker was appointed the abbot of Newbattle Abbey. He was able to take advantage of the Reformation, quickly embracing the new Protestant religion and taking ownership of the abbey and its sizeable estates when the Roman Catholic Church was outlawed. Ker’s son, also named Mark, was created the Earl of Lothian, and the line has subsequently become the Marquesses of Lothian.

Total size approximatley 12 x 9.1/2 inches

Engraved by R.Roberts

Price £22.00

Ref:3674

Leopold Karl von Kollonitsch

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Leopold Karl von Kollonitsch, also spelt Collonicz, Colonitz, Kollonitz,Kolonits, and Kolonić, called in Hungarian Kollonich Lipót 1631-1707, was a cardinal of the Holy Roman Church, Archbishop of Kalocsa and later of Gran, or Esztergom, and Primate of Hungary. Also a count of the Holy Roman Empire, he was a leading figure of the Hungarian Counter-reformation.
As an imperial minister, Kollonitsch was responsible for reorganizing the new Hungarian territories conquered from the Ottoman Empire and later ceded at the Treaty of Karlowitz. He was said to have gained over one hundred thousand converts to Rome from Orthodox Christianity.

Subject gender: Male
Artist: Christoph Weigel the Elder 1654-1725

Size 30 x 19 cms

Price £28.00

Ref:3506

William Laud 1573-1645 Archbishop of Canterbury

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Laud prospered under the patronage of the Duke of Buckingham and was appointed Archbishop of Canterbury in 1633. He supported the political and religious policies of Charles I and carried out Strafford’s policy of ‘Thorough’ in ecclesiastical affairs, working for uniformity of doctrine and practice. His attempt to impose uniformity on the church provoked armed resistance in Scotland. Parliament impeached and imprisoned him in 1640-1 and he was beheaded in 1645.

Artist: Sir Anthony Van Dyck

Size 16 x 10 cms

Price £10.00

Ref: 3111

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