Document 4/32/105 (Moray Reg., no. 127a)
- Description
- Robert, bishop of Ross, the dean of the church of Ross and the prior of Beauly, deputy executors of the Abbot of Deer, sole judge-delegate in the dispute between Bishop Archibald of Moray and Sir William of Fenton, lord of Beaufort in The Aird (‘le Hard’) and Cecilia his spouse, write to the dean of Christianity of Inverness, the rector of Lundechty (i.e., Dunlichity, INV) and the vicar of Wardlaw (now Kirkhill, INV), informing them that the bishop, the dean and the prior had personally placed Bishop Archibald of Moray in corporeal possession of the church of Kiltarlity (INV) on 27 Sept. 1279, and with apostolic authority, publicly denounced anyone who might presume to impede the bishop taking up possession. The dean, rector and vicar are directed to travel with their chaplains to Beaufort Castle (INV) and threaten Sir William and Cecilia with excommunication and ecclesiastical interdict.
- Firm date
- 26 March 1280
- Dating Notes
- Morrow of the Annunciation of Blessed Mary, 1280
- Place date (modern)
- Kinloss
- Place date (document)
- Kinloss
- Related Place
- Kinloss
- Source for Data Entry
- Moray Registrum, no. 127a [contained in an inspection by Archibald, bishop of Moray, dated 18 Aug. 1280]
- Trad. ID
- Moray Reg., no. 127a
- Calendar number
- 4/32/105
- Charter type
- Brieve
- Language
- Latin
- Notes
- Ferguson, Medieval Papal Reps., App. I, no. 152
Cooper, Select Scottish Cases, no. 67
Beauly Charters, 68-9