James Chisholm (bishop)
James Chisholm | |
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Dean of Aberdeen (1482–1487) |
James Chisholm (died c. 1545),
Cromlix in Dunblane parish, Strathearn, having moved from the Scottish Borders.[1] In his early years as a clergyman, he was a chaplain to King James III of Scotland; the king apparently sent him to Rome for some time.[1]
In 1482, after the resignation of Richard Forbes, James Chisholm became
Dean of Aberdeen.[2] From 1482 too, James was claiming to have received papal provision as Dean of Moray, an office he never seems to have gained possession of.[3] He was still claiming the title when he was provided as Bishop of Dunblane on 31 January 1487.[4] Chisholm was consecrated at an unknown date that fell between 11 July 1487 and 28 January 1488.[5]
Chisholm's long episcopate saw, among other things, the disastrous
William Chisholm (I); on 6 June 1526, Pope Clement VII provided William to the bishopric.[7] James however retained the fruits of the see – possession and control of its resources – with a right to return if he chose; he bore the style "administrator of Dunblane" for some time after, possibly until his death, though such a style is attested only once, on 26 March 1534).[8]
That was James' last appearance in contemporary sources. James Chisholm's death cannot be dated with certainty, but it is likely that he died in the year 1546; he was certainly dead by 20 January 1546.[9]
Notes
- ^ a b Cockburn, Medieval Bishops. p. 177.
- ^ Watt & Murray, Fasti Ecclesiae, p. 11.
- ^ Watt & Murray, Fasti Ecclesiae, p. 286.
- ^ Watt & Murray, Fasti Ecclesiae, pp. 102, 286.
- ^ Watt & Murray, Fasti Ecclesiae, p. 102.
- ^ Cockburn, Medieval Bishops, pp. 180–92.
- ^ Cockburn, Medieval Bishops, p. 192; Watt & Murray, Fasti Ecclesiae, p. 102.
- ^ Cockburn, Medieval Bishops, p. 192; Dowden, Bishops, p. 207.
- ^ Cockburn, Medieval Bishops, p. 193; Watt & Murray, Fasti Ecclesiae, p. 102.
References
- Cockburn, James Hutchison(1959), The Medieval Bishops of Dunblane and their Church, Dunblane: Society of Friends of Dunblane Cathedral
- Dowden, John (1912), Thomson, John Maitland (ed.), The Bishops of Scotland : Being Notes on the Lives of All the Bishops, under Each of the Sees, Prior to the Reformation, Glasgow: James Maclehose and Sons
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