Andrew of Wyntoun
aliases
Andrew Wyntown
Andrew of Wyntoun (c. 1350 – c. 1425), was a Scottish poet, a canon and prior of Loch Leven on St Serf's Inch and later, a canon of St. Andrews.
Wyntoun is most famous for his completion of an eight-syllabled metre entitled, Orygynale Cronykil of Scotland, which contains an early mention of Robin Hood; it is also cited by the Oxford English Dictionary as the earliest work in English to use the word "Catholic": "He was a constant Catholic;/All Lollard he hated and heretic." Wyntoun wrote the Chronicle at the request of his patron, Sir John of Wemyss, whose representative, Mr. Erskine Wemyss of Wemyss Castle, Fife, possessed the oldest extant manuscript of the work. The subject of the Chronicle is the history of Scotland from the mythical period to the death of Robert Stewart, Duke of Albany in 1420.…more
Wyntoun is most famous for his completion of an eight-syllabled metre entitled, Orygynale Cronykil of Scotland, which contains an early mention of Robin Hood; it is also cited by the Oxford English Dictionary as the earliest work in English to use the word "Catholic": "He was a constant Catholic;/All Lollard he hated and heretic." Wyntoun wrote the Chronicle at the request of his patron, Sir John of Wemyss, whose representative, Mr. Erskine Wemyss of Wemyss Castle, Fife, possessed the oldest extant manuscript of the work. The subject of the Chronicle is the history of Scotland from the mythical period to the death of Robert Stewart, Duke of Albany in 1420.…more
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