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Adam de Darlington ''Derlingtun(died 1296) was a 13th-century
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churchman based in the
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. Adam's name occurred for the first time in a
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document datable between 1255 and 1271, where he was named as the Precentor of
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. 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 Robert de Fyvie lso de Fyvin(d. 1292 × 1295) was a prelate based in the Kingdom of Scotland in the last quarter of the 13th century. Perhaps coming from Fyvie in Formartine, from a family of Teesdale origin, Robert was Archdeacon of Ross and ...
, who may have been descended from the area. After the death of Bishop Robert, sometime between 17 November 1292 and 18 November 1295, two elections were conducted by the
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of Ross: one elected Precentor Adam and the other elected
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.Watt, ''Fasti Ecclesiae'', p. 267. Darlington travelled to the papal curia, but on or before 18 November, resigned his right to Dundee. He did however obtain a bishopric, becoming
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. On 26 April 1296, as Precentor of Ross he was provided to the Caithness diocese, vacant since the death of
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in 1291, and consecrated by Hugh Aycelin,
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. He was not to be bishop long however, perhaps not even long enough to visit his new bishopric. He died at
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some time before 17 December 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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* 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) {{DEFAULTSORT:Darlington, Adam De 13th-century births 13th-century Scottish Roman Catholic bishops 1296 deaths Bishops of Caithness Bishops of Ross (Scotland) People from County Durham