Radulf (bishop-elect)

Radulf (fl. 1223–1226) is an obscure churchman in early 13th-century Scotland, elected as Bishop of Dunblane some time between 1223 and 1225.[1] The first of only two notices of his existence occurs in an Arbroath Abbey deed where he is styled "Radulf elect of Dunblane"; the document can be dated to 1223–1225.[2] On January 12, 1226, Pope Honorius III instructed the Bishop of St Andrews, the Bishop of Moray and the Bishop of Caithness, to enjoin a new election for the bishopric of Dunblane, as "R. elected Bishop of Dunblane" had resigned in the Pope's presence a short time before.[3] There are no clues as to Radulf's career after that. The Cathedral chapter of the diocese elected one Osbert in his place.[4] Cockburn suggested Radulf was probably a Frenchman who had immigrated to Scotland, who got elected Bishop, but decided he would rather stay in Continental Europe after he travelled there for consecration, perhaps being offered a better post there.[5]

Notes

  1. ^ Watt & Murrary, Fasti Ecclesiae, p. 99.
  2. ^ Dowden, Bishops, p. 195; Watt & Murray, Fasti Ecclesiae, p. 99.
  3. ^ Cockburn, Medieval Bishops, p. 40; Dowden, Bishops, p. 196; Watt & Murray, Fasti Ecclesiae, p. 99-100.
  4. ^ Watt, Fasti Ecclesiae, p. 99.
  5. ^ Cockburn, Medieval Bishops, p. 41.

References

  • Cockburn, James Hutchison (1959), The Medieval Bishops of Dunblane and their Church, Dunblane: Society of Friends of Dunblane Cathedral 
  • Dowden, John (1912), Thomson, John Maitland, ed., The Bishops of Scotland : Being Notes on the Lives of All the Bishops, under Each of the Sees, Prior to the Reformation, Glasgow: James Maclehose and Sons 
  • Watt, D. E. R.; Murray, A. L., eds. (2003), Fasti Ecclesiae Scotinanae Medii Aevi ad annum 1638, The Scottish Record Society, New Series, Volume 25 (Revised ed.), Edinburgh: The Scottish Record Society, ISBN 0-902054-19-8, ISSN 0143-9448 
Religious titles
Preceded by
Abraham		 Bishop of Dunblane
(elect)
1223 × 1225–1226		 Succeeded by
Osbert

Pre-Reformation Bishops of Dunblane
"M. de Dunblan" · Laurence of Dunblane · Simon of Dunblane · Jonathan of Dunblane · Abraham of Strathearn · Radulf (bishop-elect) · Osbert of Dunblane · Clement of Dunblane · Robert de Prebenda · William · Alpín of Strathearn · Nicholas of Arbroath · Nicholas de Balmyle · Richard de Pontefract · Roger de Balnebrich · Maurice of Inchaffray · William de Cambuslang · Walter de Coventre · Andrew Magnus · Dúghall of Lorne · Fionnlagh MacCailein · William Stephani · Michael Ochiltree · Walter Stewart · Robert Lauder · John Herspolz · John Spalding · James Chisholm · William Chisholm (uncle)
Italics indicate non-consecrated or titular bishops.

Post-Reformation Bishops of Dunblane
William Chisholm (uncle) · William Chisholm (nephew) · Andrew Graham · George Graham · Adam Bellenden · James Wedderburn · Robert Leighton · James Ramsay · Robert Douglas