- John de Carrick
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name = John de Carrick
other_names = John de Carrick
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birth_date = Probably, 1300s
birth_place =Carrick, Scotland
death_date = c. 1380
death_place =Scotland
occupation = Administrator,Bishop ,Canon law yer,Chancellor
title =Chancellor of Scotland
Bishop-elect of DunkeldFor the Australian Politician, see
John Carrick (Australian Politician) John de Carrick (d. c. 1380), a native of
Carrick, Scotland , was a 14th centuryChancellor of Scotland and Bishop-elect of Dunkeld. Although John's exact origins are obscure, he seems to have come from a branch of the old native comital family of Carrick. Later evidence suggests he was a graduate ofcanon law , but the university is not known.He was
Chancellor of thediocese of Glasgow by the early 1360s, during the episcopate of William Rae (1339-1367), and held Moffatparish church inAnnandale as aprebend . In political circles, he was associated with Archbald the Grim,Lord of Galloway ; perhaps with the latter's assistance, he rose in royal service during the 1360s, as Clerk of the Wardrobe, Keeper of thePrivy Seal and then in 1370Chancellor of Scotland . Despite the death ofDavid II of Scotland and accession ofRobert II of Scotland in 1371, John remained Chancellor.In 1370 he was given the royal nomination to fill the vacant see of Dunkeld, which was free because of the death of
John Luce that year. He failed, however, to secure papal approval, and the Pope instead providedMichael de Monymusk to the Bishopric. Carrick continued in royal service until 1377, after which it appears he was allowed to retire on the revenues of theburgh ofLanark . His death can probably be placed in 1380.References
*Dowden, John, "The Bishops of Scotland", ed. J. Maitland Thomson, (Glasgow, 1912)
*MacQueen, Hector L., "Carrick, John (d. 1380/81)", in the "Oxford Dictionary of National Biography", Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/54154 , accessed 19 Feb 2007]
*Watt, D.E.R., "Fasti Ecclesiae Scotinanae Medii Aevi ad annum 1638", 2nd Draft, (St Andrews, 1969)
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