James Ogilvie [Ogilvy] was a late medieval Scottish

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 prelate

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. After the death of William Elphinstone

William Elphinstone

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 (died October 24, 1514), the bishopric of Aberdeen

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 became vacant. Ogilvy was nominated for the vacancy by John Stewart, Duke of Albany. At Rome

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 however, Pope Leo X

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 provided Robert Forman

Robert Forman

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 to the vacant see, while the canon

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s of Aberdeen elect Alexander Gordon

Alexander Gordon (d. 1518)

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, allegedly under pressure from the latter's cousin Alexander Gordon, 3rd Earl of Huntly

Alexander Gordon, 3rd Earl of Huntly

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It was because of this that Ogilvie resigned his rights to this bishopric

Diocese

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, and in compensation, became Commendator-Abbot of Dryburgh. During the early days of his commendatorship, it was recorded that he was a canon of the diocese of Aberdeen

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 and the parson of Kinkell. Ogilvie held the commendatorship for merely three years, dying on May 30, 1518.