- Adam de Lanark
infobox bishopbiog
name = Adam de Lanark
religion=Roman Catholic Church
See =Diocese of Galloway
Title =Bishop of Galloway
Period = 1363–1378
consecration = beforeJanuary 2 ,1364
Predecessor = Thomas
Successor =Thomas de Rossy
post = | ordination = before 1355
bishops = none
date of birth = unknown
place of birth = ProbablyScotland (Lanark ?)
date of death = 1378
place of death =Avignon Adam de Lanark O. P. (died 1378) was a 14th century Scottish Dominican
friar andprelate . Possibly from aLanark burghess family, he was a Dominican and a priest by 1356, and by 1364 is being styled "Magister", indicating the completion of a longuniversity education .Watt, "Biographical Dictionary", p. 325.] He first appears in the sources, c. 1355/6 as aconfessor of KingDavid II of Scotland ; he retained this royal position through the 1350s and into the 1360s; Adam received a number of English safe-conducts (between May 1356 and August 1357) to visit King David, who for a time was a prisoner inEngland .Adam spent a great deal of time at the papal court in
Avignon ,France . He was there onJanuary 29 ,1359 , as aproctor forPatrick Leuchars ,Bishop of Brechin . He was sent there again at some point by the crown, receiving payment for this trip sometime between August 1362 and November 1364; he is not styled "bishop elect", meaning that this trip must have occurred before 1363. [Watt, "Biographical Dictionary", pp. 325-6.] In 1363, Adam de Lanark was electedBishop of Galloway and received papal provision to the vacant bishopric onNovember 17 ,1363 .Watt, "Fasti Ecclesiae", p. 130.] He was consecrated byJanuary 2 ,1364 . While seeking confirmation at the papal court, he probably presented a roll of petitions on behalf of King David II and did receive a number of faculties in order to grant dispensations in the bishopric of Galloway.Watt, "Biographical Dictionary", p. 326.]Bishop Adam's return to
Scotland is signalled by the grant of safe-conduct through England issued to him on February 20. Sometime beforeJanuary 25 ,1365 , he was in Galloway witnessing a charter ofThomas Fleming, Earl of Wigtown . He was a frequent attender of royal councils and parliaments until 1371, when his patron David II died and was replaced on the throne by David II's long-time rival, Robert Stewart,Earl of Strathearn , who becameRobert II of Scotland . Bishop Adam is thereafter a harder figure to trace, and little more is known about his activities besides the fact that he is said to have died at the papal court in Avignon during the vacancy of the papacy; that is, Bishop Adam died between the death ofPope Gregory XI onMarch 27 ,1378 and the consecration ofAvignon Pope Clement VII on the following October 31. [Dowden, "Bishops", p. 363; Watt, "Biographical Dictionary", p. 326; Watt, "Fasti Ecclesiae", pp. 130-1.]Notes
References
* Dowden, John, "The Bishops of Scotland", ed. J. Maitland Thomson, (Glasgow, 1912)
* Keith, Robert, "An Historical Catalogue of the Scottish Bishops: Down to the Year 1688", (London, 1924)
* Watt, D. E. R., "A Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Graduates to A. D. 1410", (Oxford, 1977)
* Watt, D. E. R., "Fasti Ecclesiae Scotinanae Medii Aevi ad annum 1638", 2nd Draft, (St Andrews, 1969)
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