Nicol Mac Flann () was archbishop-elect of Tuam. Mac Flann appears to have been a kinsman of a previous

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Flann Mac Flainn Flann Mac Flainn was fifth Archbishop of Tuam, 1250–1256. Life He was chancellor of Tuam, and sub-deacon to the pope when he was elected archbishop about May 1250; the royal assent was given on 27 May, and seisin was granted on 25 July, but Mac ...

(1250–56). Mac Flann was elected

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before 20 October 1283, but never consecrated. His elected predecessor,

Malachias Hibernicus Malachy of Ireland (fl. 1279–1300), also known as Malachias Hibernicus, was a theologian and Archbishop of Tuam in 1280. He was a friar of the Franciscan convent of Limerick and was elected Archbishop of Tuam, though never officially installed. ...

, was never installed. It was not until September 1286 that

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Stephen de Fulbourn Stephen de Fulbourn (died 3 July 1288) was an English-born cleric and politician in thirteenth-century Ireland: he was Justiciar of Ireland, and Archbishop of Tuam 1286–88. He was a member of the Order of Knights Hospitallers. Biography A nat ...

, became the new archbishop. The surname is now rendered McLynn or Glynn in

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References

* http://www.ucc.ie/celt/published/T100005C/ * https://archive.org/stream/fastiecclesiaehi04cottuoft#page/n17/mode/2up {{DEFAULTSORT:Mac Flainn, Nicol Archbishops of Tuam 13th-century Roman Catholic bishops in Ireland Christian clergy from County Galway

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