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monk, now

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. He held the leadership of

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. According to

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, he was selected purely on merit and maintained his ascetic life after becoming a bishop. This apparently included increasing the

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by the chapter from episcopal dues and confirmed the grants made by his predecessor bishops. He also

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the murderers of

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(d. 1241). He died in the year 1247, sometime before 13 May when his successor

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received a papal mandate for consecration.

References

* Dowden, John, ''The Bishops of Scotland'', ed. J. Maitland Thomson, (Glasgow, 1912), pp. 103–4 * Innes, Cosmo, ''Registrum Episcopatus Aberdonensis: Ecclesie Cathedralis Aberdonensis Regesta Que Extant in Unum Collecta'', Vol. 1, (Edinburgh, 1845), p. xxiii * Keith, Robert, ''An Historical Catalogue of the Scottish Bishops: Down to the Year 1688'', (London, 1924), p. 107 * Watt, D.E.R., ''Fasti Ecclesiae Scotinanae Medii Aevi ad annum 1638'', 2nd Draft, (St Andrews, 1969), p. 1 * Watt, D.E.R. & Shead, N.F. (eds.), ''The Heads of Religious Houses in Scotland from the 12th to the 16th Centuries'', The Scottish Records Society, New Series, Volume 24, (Edinburgh, 2001), p. 4 {{DEFAULTSORT:Lamley, Radulf de 12th-century births 1247 deaths Abbots of Arbroath Bishops of Aberdeen 13th-century Scottish Roman Catholic bishops