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Walter de Baltrodin

13th-century Scottish bishop

Field	Value
type	Bishop
name	Walter de Baltrodin
title	Bishop of Caithness
church	Roman Catholic Church
see	Diocese of Caithness
term	1263–1270
predecessor	William
successor	Nicholas
consecration	1263
birth_date	early or mid-1200s
birth_place	Pitroddie, Gowrie, Scotland
death_place	Dornoch (probably), 1270

Walter de Baltrodin (Baltroddi; Baltroddie; died 1270) was a 13th-century Scottish bishop.

Origin and education

If his name can be taken as a guide, he came from "Baltrodin" – Baltroddie (Pitroddie) – in Gowrie. Although it is not known which university or universities he attended, he had achieved a Master's Degree by 1259 and was later a Doctor of Canon Law.

Career

He held canonries in the dioceses of Aberdeen and Caithness when, in 1263, he was elected Bishop of Caithness.

As is usual with bishops of Caithness, very little is known about Walter's episcopate. It is known he received a subsidy from the king taken from the profits of justice in the province. According to Clan Mackay tradition, Aodh Mór MacAoidh (or Iye Mackay), married a daughter of Bishop Walter, acquiring 12 davochs of land at Durness.

Death

Bishop Walter died sometime in the year 1270. His death was followed, after some delay, by the election of Nicholas, Abbot of Scone.

Notes

References

Crawford, Barbara E., "Baltroddi, Walter of (d. 1270)", in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 , accessed 20 Feb 2007
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., Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae Medii Aevi ad annum 1638, 2nd Draft, (St Andrews, 1969)

References

Crawford, "Baltroddi, Walter of (died 1270)".
Crawford, "Baltroddi, Walter of (d. 1270)"; Keith, ''Historical Catalogue'', p. 210.
The [[decree]] of [[election]] was presented to [[Pope Urban IV]] by Roger de Castello, a canon of Aberdeen. The election was declared contrary to canon law, but the Pope took into account the poverty of the diocese of Caithness with the costs of the journey to Rome from such a distant diocese, and delegated the authority to judge the fitness of Walter to the [[Bishop of Dunkeld. Bishops of Dunkeld]], [[Bishop of Brechin. Brechin]] and [[Bishop of Ross (Scotland)
Crawford, "Baltroddi, Walter of (d. 1270)"; Dowden, ''Bishops of Scotland'', p. 226; Keith, ''Historical Catalogue'', p. 210; Watt, ''Fasti Ecclesiae'', p. 58.
Dowden, ''Bishops of Scotland'', p. 226; Watt, ''Fasti Ecclesiae'', p. 58.

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