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Alexander de Kininmund (died 1344)

Scottish churchman

Scottish churchman

Alexander de Kininmund (died 1344) was a 14th-century Scottish churchman. The first mention of Alexander occurs when, as a canon of Dunkeld he is one of three ambassadors sent by King Robert I of Scotland to Avignon in 1320. The purpose of this embassy was to present a letter to Pope John XXII known as the Declaration of Arbroath. As a papal chaplain and lawyer, he was well qualified to argue the Scottish cause, and Barrow makes a strong case that he was, in fact the author of the document.

Biography

He became Archdeacon of Lothian in 1327, and by 1329 held a prebend in the diocese of Brechin; he is also a papal chaplain and an auditor of the papal palace at Avignon.

In that year, after the death of Henry le Chen, Walter Herok was elected Bishop of Aberdeen and travelled to Avignon to receive consecration from Pope John XXII. However, Walter died there, apparently before receiving consecration and Alexander, a papal servant from Scotland, was provided to the now vacant see without any consultation of the chapter of Aberdeen.

Alexander was back in Scotland by 29 March 1330, when he attended a parliament of King David II of Scotland. Four years later, on 12 February 1334, he was present at the parliament of the usurper-king Edward Balliol. He died sometime before 13 September 1344.

Notes

References

  • Dowden, John, The Bishops of Scotland, ed. J. Maitland Thomson, (Glasgow, 1912)
  • Innes, Cosmo, Registrum Episcopatus Aberdonensis: Ecclesie Cathedralis Aberdonensis Regesta Que Extant in Unum Collecta, Vol. 1, (Edinburgh, 1845)
  • Keith, Robert, An Historical Catalogue of the Scottish Bishops: Down to the Year 1688, (London, 1924)
  • Watt, D.E.R., Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae Medii Aevi ad annum 1638, 2nd Draft, (St Andrews, 1969)
  • Barrow, Geoffrey W. S., Robert Bruce and the Community of The Realm of Scotland, (Edinburgh 1988)

before= William de Eaglesham | title=Archdeacon of Lothian | years=1327–1329 | after= William Comyn before= Walter Herok | title=Bishop of Aberdeen | years=1329–1343 x 1344 | after= William de Deyn

References

  1. Dowden, ''Bishops of Scotland'', p. 111.
  2. Barrow, ''Robert Bruce and the Community of The Realm of Scotland'', pp305-308.
  3. Watt, ''Fasti Ecclesiae'', p. 310.
  4. Dowden, ''Bishops of Scotland'', p. 110; Watt, ''Fasti Ecclesiae'', p. 2.
  5. Dowden, ''Bishops of Scotland'', pp. 110-1.
  6. Dowden, ''Bishops of Scotland'', p. 111; Innes, ''Registrum Episcopatus Aberdonensis'', p. xxxviii.
  7. Mortlach]], [[Aberdeen]], [[Fetternear Palace. Fetternear]] and [[Rayne, Aberdeenshire. Rayne]]; Aberdeen and Fetterneir were said to have been completed.Innes, ''Registrum Episcopatus Aberdonensis'', p. xxxviii.
  8. Dowden, ''Bishops of Scotland'', p. 112; Watt, ''Fasti Ecclesiae'', p. 2.
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