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. Before attaining Glasgow, he had previously been the

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and a papal

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. In the summer of 1259, after the quashing of the election of

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provided John to the

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, and he was consecrated soon after at the Roman court without any consultation with the Glasgow canons. His election was opposed by King

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, who sent a protest to

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. The pope refused to revoke the decision, but promised to make John render

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to the king. Bishop John arrived in Scotland in the year 1260. When the mother of the king,

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, fled from her second husband John de Brienne (a.k.a. Jean d'Acre), the Grand Butler of the King of France and the son of John de Brienne,

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, Bishop John was used by King Alexander to reconcile them. Bishop John was one of the witnesses to the

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on 2 July 1266. However, his good relations with the king did not make up for the resentment felt by the Glasgow canons at an outside appointee, and John eventually resigned his see in 1267, and went to France. He died at

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the following year, and was buried there.

References

* Dowden, John, ''The Bishops of Scotland'', ed. J. Maitland Thomson, (Glasgow, 1912) {{DEFAULTSORT:Cheyam, John de 13th-century births 1268 deaths Bishops of Glasgow 13th-century Scottish Roman Catholic bishops Burials in France English chaplains Catholic chaplains Archdeacons of Bath