James Bane (or Ben or Bennet) (died 1332) was
Bishop of St. Andrews
The Bishop of St. Andrews ( gd, Easbaig Chill Rìmhinn, sco, Beeshop o Saunt Andras) was the ecclesiastical head of the Diocese of St Andrews in the Catholic Church and then, from 14 August 1472, as Archbishop of St Andrews ( gd, Àrd-easbaig ...
for a brief period in the early 14th century. In his earlier career, James had been a
canon of
Aberdeen
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and
prebendary of
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.
James rose to the position of
Archdeacon
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of St. Andrews, one of the most senior positions within the diocese. He was appointed one of the ambassadors to France along with
Thomas Randolph, 1st Earl of Moray
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,
Robert Keith the Marischal of Scotland, Adam de Moravia and Walter de Twynham in 1326 to renew the
Auld Alliance with the signing of the
Treaty of Corbeil (1326)
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.
[Michel, vol. I, p. 55] Ten days after the death of Bishop
William de Lamberton
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in 1328, the
chapter held an election to fill the vacancy. James, although absent at the court of
Pope John XXII
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at Avignon, stood against Alexander de Kyninmonth, Archdeacon of
Lothian
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, and won. However, before news of his victory reached Avignon, Pope John, who had previously reserved his right to do so, had already provided James to the see. James was
consecrated
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, sometime in the same year, by
Bertrand de Turre,
Bishop of Frascati.
In the aftermath of the
Battle of Dupplin Moor
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on 12 August 1332, after roughly two years back in Scotland as chief-bishop of the
kingdom
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, James fled to
Flanders
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. He met his death at
Bruges
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in the same year. The bishopric then lay vacant for over nine years, due to the turmoil of repeated invasion from England and civil war within Scotland. The
prior
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and the
chapter of the
see
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had actually chosen a man called William Bell,
dean of
diocese of Dunkeld
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, but William Bell resigned all rights deriving from the election to
Pope Benedict XII
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. William Landallis, rector of Kinkel in the diocese of Aberdeen, was appointed to the bishopric by Benedict on 18 February 1342.
References
Notes
Sources
*
Dowden, John, ''The Bishops of Scotland'', ed. J. Maitland Thomson, (Glasgow, 1912)
*
Michel, F.X.,''Les Écossais en France, les Français en Écosse''II vols. London 186
(in French)
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13th-century births
1332 deaths
Bishops of St Andrews
14th-century Scottish Roman Catholic bishops