Radulf or Ralph was a
canon of the
Bishopric of Lincoln
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The present diocese covers the county of Lincolnshire and the unitary authority areas of North Lincolnshire and No ...
and also identified as Master Radulf de Leicester . Following the death of
Simon de Gunby,
Bishop of Moray
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, he was elected c. 1252 as the new bishop.
Radulf was one of at least three 12th and 13th century bishops of Moray to come from
Lincolnshire. He may have been the Radulf, also from
Lincoln, who appeared as a witness to a charter of Bishop Simon. There is no record of a
consecration
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, though that cannot be regarded as firm evidence that no consecration took place. Radulf may have died before his consecration or may have become a casualty of the disruption that was taking place during the minority of
Alexander III and which impacted on appointments to vacant bishoprics.
[Oram, ''Elgin Cathedral'', p. 31] In 1253 there was a new bishop by the name of
Archibald.
Notes
References
*
Dowden, John, ''The Bishops of Scotland'', ed. J. Maitland Thomson, (Glasgow, 1912)
*
Keith, Robert, ''An Historical Catalogue of the Scottish Bishops: Down to the Year 1688'', (London, 1924)
* Richard Fawcett and Richard Oram, ''Elgin Cathedral and the Diocese of Moray'', (Edinburgh, 2014)
*
Watt, D.E.R. & A. L. Murray, ''Fasti Ecclesiae Scotinanae Medii Aevi ad annum 1638'', Revised edition, (Edinburgh, 2003)
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Bishops of Moray
Clergy from Lincoln, England
13th-century Scottish Roman Catholic bishops