Medieval documentary register
Early bearers of the de Glasgu name
28 mapped documentary identities or relationship records, c.1175–1506. These records demonstrate personal and family-identifying use but do not prove one hereditary pedigree.
| Bearer | Date | Documentary place | Context | Assessment | Map precision |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Roger de Glasgu | c.1175–1199 | Glasgow | Witness to a Glasgow burgh and Clyde fishery charter; earliest secure direct bearer. | Secure single occurrence | City-level documentary context |
| Richard de Glasgu | probably late 12th century | Dublin | Dublin guild merchant admission; paid eight shillings. | Secure single occurrence | City-level documentary context |
| Robert de Glasgu | probably late 12th century | Dublin | Dublin guild merchant admission immediately after Richard; their relationship is unproved. | Secure single occurrence | City-level documentary context |
| Robert de Glascu | 1200 | England — Dadinton unidentified | Named in an English royal plea-roll notice concerning men said to have been present at a robbery. | Secure printed occurrence; identity with the Dublin Robert unproved | Country-level representative point; Dadinton not securely identified |
| Gilbert or Gilibertus de Glascu | before 1222/23 | Dublin | Dublin guild merchant admission; paid eight shillings. | Secure single occurrence | City-level documentary context |
| Robert de Glasgu | 1229×1236 | Dunkeld | Clerk in the household of Gilbert, bishop of Dunkeld. | Secure in a fifteenth-century transumpt; identity with other Roberts unproved | Institutional settlement point; charter location not treated as residence |
| Robert de Glascu, father of Alexander | 1238/39 | Dublin | Relationship-only guild record: Glasgow attaches to Robert, not Alexander. This Robert may overlap another early Robert. | Secure family-identifying use; not an additional direct working identity | City-level documentary context |
| Robert de Glascu | 30 January 1248/49 | Kippax | Witness to a Durham episcopal ordinance issued at Kippax. | Secure occurrence; office not stated | Settlement-level event point |
| John de Glasgu | 2 February 1259 | St Andrews | Chaplain of Bishop Gamelin of St Andrews; probably also a Dunipace witness. | One secure occurrence and one probable additional occurrence | Institutional settlement point; not asserted as residence |
| Hugh de Glasgw | c.1283 | Rottenrow, Glasgow | Witness to a Rottenrow quitclaim in an act already repeatedly located in Glasgow. | Secure reading; date assigned rather than internal | Street-level documentary context |
| Alexander, son of Richard the messenger of Glasgow | 1283 | Glasgow | Principal in a burgage exchange and receipt; his deceased father Richard was messenger of Glasgow. Not counted as a hereditary Glasgow bearer. | Secure father-son statement; possible local identity candidate for the escheator | City-level burgage-property context |
| Alexander, son of Richard the former constable of Glasgow | 1283 | Glasgow | Neighbouring landholder in the companion exchange; his property bordered the exchanged burgage formerly held by deceased Cristiana Briane. Keep separate from Richard the messenger's son unless another record supplies a bridge; the acts do not prove the families unrelated. | Secure father-son statement; surname transmission not established | City-level adjoining-property context |
| Alexander de Glasgu / de Glasgow | 7 March 1289/90 | Southern Scotland — royal Exchequer context | Royal escheator south of the Forth. A mutilated, unsealed receipt records £6 13s. 4d. transmitted from Sir Alexander Balliol to Thomas de Clenhil for a fee due at Pentecost 1288. Bain's old locator is Chapter House (Scots Documents), Box 94, No. 5; Stevenson I, p. 125. | High confidence name; identity with Richard the messenger's son is possible but unproved | Regional representative point; residence and receipt location unstated |
| Master Walter de Glasgu | c.1291 | Melrose | Educated witness in Melrose charter material. | Secure single occurrence | Institutional settlement point; not asserted as residence |
| John of Glasgow | 7 January 1299 | Holyrood, Edinburgh | Member of the Holyrood community swearing fealty to Edward I. | Secure single occurrence; identity with Gamelin's chaplain unproved | Specific institutional context |
| Richard of Glasgow | 3 July 1312 | Arbroath | Monk of Arbroath. | Secure single occurrence | Specific monastic context |
| William de Glasgow / de Glascou | 1315–1322 | Corbridge | Priest instituted as vicar of Corbridge and later a deed witness. | Secure repeated personal byname function | Parish settlement point |
| Adam de Glasgeu | probably 14th century | Berwick-upon-Tweed | Burgess of Berwick granting land at Hiddeslaw in the tenement of Bondington. | Secure name; date broad and assigned | Settlement-level property context |
| John de Glasgu | 1343 | Scotland — Exchequer account location unstated | Paid 7s. 6d. concerning the board of royal servants; office unknown. | Secure single occurrence | Country-level representative point |
| Master John de Glasgow | 1377–before 1419 | Glasgow | Chancellor of Dunkeld, cleric and legal proctor with repeated personal byname use. | Strong extended career reconstruction; some component identifications remain probable | First secure documentary event point; career spanned several institutions |
| Matthew de Glasgu | 20 December 1384 | Kelso institutional association | Papal petitioner for a benefice in the gift of Kelso Abbey. | Secure calendar entry | Institutional representative point; requested benefice unspecified |
| William de Glasgu, priest | 1394 | Kelso / Kilwinning institutional association | Two petitions for benefices in the gifts of Kelso and Kilwinning abbeys. | Probable repeated personal use; separate from the physician | One of two institutional representative points; residence unproved |
| John de Glasgu, father of Malcolm | 1394 | Perth | Named as Malcolm's father in an Exchequer payment rendered at Perth. | Secure family-identifying construction | Account-rendering location; residence unproved |
| William, physician de Glasgu | 1395–1397 | Linlithgow | Royal customs remission and later royal gift. | Secure repeated personal identifier | Customs-account event point; residence unproved |
| John de Glasgu | 1447–1455 | Glasgow | Glasgow burgess and witness in two burgh property acts. | Secure repeated personal name | City-level property-act context |
| John Glasgw | 1475–1479/80 | Stirling | Witness to two Stirling property and endowment acts. | Secure repeated unprefixed form; not merged with the Glasgow burgess | Settlement-level property-act context |
| Alan Glasgw | killed before 26 February 1495 | Jedburgh | Homicide victim named in a remission produced at the Jedburgh justice ayre. | Secure printed occurrence; original manuscript form still to be checked | Justice-ayre record point; place of death and residence unstated |
| John de Glasgow alias Smith | 28 April 1506 | Glasgow High Street | Joint acquirer with Sir Allan Smith of a four-shilling annual rent sold by Agnes, daughter and heir of Robert Watson; Allan's property was the northern boundary. The catalogue's malformed `Watsonm` needs checking. No kinship or occupation is stated, and the complete acquisition and survivorship terms remain unread. | Secure catalogue-level dual identification; full instrument unread | Street-level property context |