John Bellenden

John Bellenden (flourished 1533–87) was a Scottish writer whose translation of Hector Boece’s Scotorum historiae had a profound influence on Scottish national feeling. Educated at the universities of St. Andrews (Scotland) and Paris, he was in the service of James V as clerk of accounts from the King’s earliest years and at his request translated the Historiae, which had just appeared in Paris (1526). It was published as The History and Chronicles of Scotland in...