Nicholas of Brechin

Nicholas
Bishop of Brechin
See Brechin
In office 12971298
Predecessor William de Kilconquhar
Successor John de Kininmund
Personal details
Born unknown
unknown
Died 1298 (likely)
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Previous post Sub-Dean of Brechin

Nicholas (died c. 1298) was a Scottish churchman and prelate active at the end of the 13th century. While holding the office of sub-dean of Brechin Cathedral, he got provided bishop of Brechin by Pope Boniface VIII on 21 January 1297.[1]

A concurrent mandate was sent, significantly, to John Balliol, King of the Scots rather than Edward I.[2]

He was consecrated on the same day by Giovanni Boccamazza, Cardinal-Bishop of Tusculum.[3]

Bishop Nicholas is known only from papal documents, and his episcopate was short.[4] Although there is no date for Nicholas' death, he had died by 1 June 1298, when his successor John de Kininmund was appointed Brechin bishop.[2]

He is the first known holder of the office of sub-dean of Brechin, though not necessarily the first; holders of this office are poorly recorded, the next known holder being the mid-14th-century William de Forres.[5]

Catholic Church titles
Preceded by
William de Kilconquhar
Bishop of Brechin
12971298
Succeeded by
John de Kininmund

Notes

  1. Watt and Murray, Fasti Ecclesiae, pp. 54, 69 for short discussion where this date is favoured, but some editors have preferred to date document to 26 January 1296; c/f Dowden, Bishops, p. 178
  2. 1 2 Watt and Murray, Fasti Ecclesiae, p. 54
  3. Dowden, Bishops, p. 178
  4. Dowden, Bishops, pp. 17879
  5. Watt and Murray, Fasti Ecclesiae, p. 69

References

  • Dowden, John (1912), Thomson, John Maitland, ed., The Bishops of Scotland : Being Notes on the Lives of All the Bishops, under Each of the Sees, Prior to the Reformation, Glasgow: James Maclehose and Sons 
  • Watt, D. E. R.; Murray, A. L., eds. (2003), Fasti Ecclesiae Scotinanae Medii Aevi ad annum 1638, The Scottish Record Society, New Series, Volume 25 (Revised ed.), Edinburgh: The Scottish Record Society, ISBN 0-902054-19-8, ISSN 0143-9448 
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