Document 2/144/64 (Theiner, no. 203)
- Description
- Pope Alexander IV commands the bishop-elect of Aberdeen and the prior of the Friars Preachers, Aberdeen, in confirmation of what has been done by Otho, Cardinal of St Mary’s in Via Lata, to examine witnesses as to the birth of Morgan, whom William of Mar succeeded in the earldom of Mar, and make order accordingly, the decision as to the earldom being reserved to the king. Alan Durward, brother-in-law of the king of Scotland, claims the said earldom, on the ground that William’s ancestors, Morgan and Donnchad, were of illegitimate birth. He obtained papal letters addressed to the bishop of Brechin, and his colleague, to hear the cause, but they remitted the process to the pope, who committed it to cardinal Otho, before whom the opposite party produced certain letters under a papal bull, containing the tenor of the letter to the said bishop, which William had obtained to the abbot of Jedburgh and his colleagues, if such was their tenor, as had been inserted in the second letters, are said to have been declared false by the pope. But, on the continued litigation of the parties, the cardinal, on Alan’s proctor being unable to produce the original of the letters which he asserted on oath was in Scotland, with consent of both parties, cancelled the letters and processes on both sides, granting licence to the parties to obtain (papal) letters on the matter in question.
- Firm date
- 4 October 1257
- Dating Notes
- 4 non. Oct., pontifical year 3
- Place date (modern)
- Viterbo
- Place date (document)
- Viterbii
- Related Place
- Viterbo
- Source for Data Entry
- Theiner, Monumenta, no. 203
- Trad. ID
- Theiner, no. 203
- Calendar number
- 2/144/64
- Charter type
- Papal letter
- Language
- Latin