Adam de Darlington

infobox bishopbiog
name = Adam de Darlington


religion= Roman Catholic Church
See = Diocese of Caithness
Title = Bishop of Caithness
Period = 1296
consecration = April 8, 1275
Predecessor = Alan de St Edmund
Successor = Andrew
post = Precentor of Ross (fl. 1255 × 1271) | ordination =
bishops = "Bishop of Ross" (elect)
(1292 × 1295)
date of birth = unknown
place of birth = unknown
date of death = April 29 × December 17, 1296
place of death = Siena, Tuscany, Italy

Adam de Darlington [Derlingtun] (died 1296) was a 13th century English churchman based in the Kingdom of Scotland. Adam's name occurred for the first time in a Moray document datable between 1255 and 1271, where he was named as the Precentor of Fortrose Cathedral. [Innes (ed.), "Registrum Episcopatus Moraviensis", p. 282; Watt, "Fasti Ecclesiae", p. 275.] He seems to have been introduced into the diocese of Ross, along with others from the north-east of England, by Bishop Robert de Fyvie, who may have been descended from the area. [Watt, "Dictionary", p. 208.]

After the death of Bishop Robert, sometime between November 17, 1292, and November 18, 1295, two elections were conducted by the cathedral chapter of Ross: one elected Precentor Adam and the other elected Thomas de Dundee.Watt, "Fasti Ecclesiae", p. 267.] Darlington travelled to the papal curia, but on or before November 18, resigned his right to Dundee.

He did however obtain a bishopric, becoming Bishop of Caithness. On April 26, 1296, as Precentor of Ross he was provided to the Caithness diocese, vacant since the death of Alan de St Edmund in 1291, and consecrated by Hugh Aycelin, Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia. [Dowden, "Bishops", p. 239; Watt, "Fasti Ecclesiae", p. 59.] He was not to be bishop long however, perhaps not even long enough to visit his new bishopric. He died at Siena some time before December 17, 1296, when Andrew, Abbot of Coupar Angus, was provided to the now vacant see of Caithness. [Dowden, "Bishops", p. 239; Watt, "Fasti Ecclesiae", pp. 59, 275.]

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References

* Dowden, John, "The Bishops of Scotland", ed. J. Maitland Thomson, (Glasgow, 1912)
* Innes, Cosmo Nelson, "Registrum Episcopatus Moraviensis; E Pluribus Codicibus Consarcinatum Circa A.D. Mcccc., Cum Continuatione Diplomatum Recentiorum Usque Ad A.D. Mdcxxiii", (Edinburgh, 1837)
* 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)