Also known as:
Bishop of Ross, John Leslie;
Latin: Joannes Leslaeus
LESLEY, JOHN. - Scottish bishop and historian, b. 29 Sept. 1527, d. in a convent near Brussels on 31 May 1596. A priest, doctor of law at the Sorbonne in 1553, a zealous defender of Catholicism against the Protestants.
In 1561 he brought Mary Stuart back to Scotland, and she appointed him professor of canon law at Aberdeen, then senator of the college of justice. Bishop of Ross in 1565, and an intrepid supporter of Mary Stuart, he was a prisoner of Elizabeth, queen of England (1568-1573), then exiled to the Netherlands and France, where in 1593 he became bishop of Coutances. His activity was notable as a reorganizer of the laws of Scotland, in 1566, and as a scholar, especially in the De origine moribus et rebus gestis Scotorum, in 10 books, which comes down to 1562.
BIBL. The list of L.'s works is in F. W. Bateson, The Cambridge bibliography of english literature, I, Cambridge 1940, p. 905.
Saitta, Armando. “Lesley, john.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VII, col. 1201. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1951. https://azioneromana.com/article/lesley-john.
MLA
Saitta, Armando. “Lesley, john.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VII, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1951, col. 1201. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/lesley-john.
BibTeX
@incollection{ec7_lesley_john,
author = {Saitta, Armando},
title = {Lesley, john},
booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
volume = {VII},
pages = {1201},
note = {Cited by column},
publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
address = {Città del Vaticano},
year = {1951},
url = {https://azioneromana.com/article/lesley-john}
}
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