[RESIGNATION OF THE BISHOP OF BANGOR.] A.D. 1236. ANN. CAMB., in an.-Frater Anianus prædicavit de Cruce in West-Wallia. [p. 82, ed. Williams.] A.D. 1236. Resignation of Cadwgan or Martin Bishop of Bangor. BRUT Y TYWYSOG., in an.-Y ulwydyn honno y gellygawd y nawvet Gregori Bap Gadwgawn Escob Bangor oe Escobawt, ac y kymerwyt yn enrydedus yny crefyd gwynn ymanachlawc Dor, ac yno y bu varw ac y cladwyt. [p. 324, ed. Williams.] That year Pope Gregory the Ninth released Cadwgan the Bishop of Bangor from his diocese, and he was honourably received into the white religious society in the monastery of Dor; and there he died and was buried. [ib., p. 325.] MADOX, Formul.-Notum sit omnibus sanctæ Matris Ecclesiæ filiis præsentibus et futuris, quod ego Caducanus Dei gratia Episcopus, minister quondam Bangornensis, in ultima et libera voluntate mea professionem meam feci domino Stephano de Wygornia abbati de Dora, omni propter Deum renuncians proprietati. Dedi insuper et bona voluntate mea contuli, pro salute animæ meæ, dicto monasterio de Dora omnia quæcunque habui, sive in libris sive in equis sive omnino in aliqua re, sine omni reclamacione aliquorum aliorum, in perpetuum. In hujus rei testimonium hiis litteris nostris patentibus sigillum nostrum apposuimus. [PP. 302, 303; and in Br. Willis, Bangor, Append. IV. pp. 186, 187.] A.D. 1236. March 15. Viterbo. Gregory IX. to the Bishop, Archdeacon, and Dean, of Worcester. Determine the Welsh sees and ford diocese. Venerabilis frater noster Herefordensis Episcopus boundaries of the nobis humiliter supplicavit, ut cum inter eum ex parte those of Here- una, et venerabiles fratres nostros Menevensem, Landavensem, et de Sancto Asaph Episcopos ex altera, super finibus suorum Episcopatuum, quos certi limites non distinguunt, aliquando altercatio sit exorta, remedio super hoc dignaremur occurrere salutari, ut hac occasione suboriri de cætero inter eos dissensionis materiam b contingat. Illius ergo exemplo, Qui pacis et non afflictionis consilia cogitat, super hoc providere volentes, Discretioni vestræ mandamus, quatinus, prædictis Episcopis convocatis, et deliberatione cum viris providis et discretis præhabita diligenti, eosdem [WELSH BISHOP CONSECRATED ELSEWHERE THAN AT CANTERBURY.] Episcopatus studeatis auctoritate nostra discretione prævia limitare. Quod si non omnes, tu frater Episcope, etc. Datum Viterbii, idibus Martii anno nono. [Vatican papers, Brit. Mus. Addit. MSS. 15353, P. 345-] Before A.D. 1239. Nunnery of Llanllugan in Montgomery founded. [Grant thereto by Hugh or Howel Bishop of S. Asaph, Llanelwy Oct. 10, 1239, in Br. Willis, S. Asaph, Append. III., from Lib. Rub. Assav. ; and see Dugd. Mon. V. 735.] [A.D. 1240. Boxgrave or Canterbury.] Security given by Edmund Archbishop of Canterbury to the Convent of Canterbury respecting the Consecration of Howel II., Bishop of S. Asapha. Right of Chap Universis sanctæ matris Ecclesiæ filiis ad quos præsens ter of Canter- scriptum pervenerit, EDMUNDUS CANTUARIENSIS ARCHIbury, that suffraEPISCOPUS, etc. Cum per libertatem Ecclesiæ Cantuagan Bishops should be con- riensis suffraganei ejusdem sine consensu Capituli Cansecrated at Can- tuariensis alibi quam in ecclesia Cantuariensi nullatenus terbury and not elsewhere, not to debeant consecrari: ne consecratio venerabilis fratris consecration of be prejudiced by H. de Sancto Assaph Episcopi in ecclesia de Boxgrave a H. of S. Asaph nobis celebrata dictæ Ecclesiæ in posterum possit vel at Boxgrave. debeat præjudicare, consecrationem ipsam in eodem loco de consensu Capituli Cantuariensis fuisse celebratam præsentibus literis nostris protestamur. [Wharton, De Episc. Assav. Append. I., and Br. Willis, S. Asaph, Append. IV.; from Reg. Cant.] VOL. I. Hh [TEMPORALTIES OF LLANDAFF "SEDE VACANTE" BELONG TO THE CROWN.] "A like "Cautio" from Edmund, for consecrating the first Howel or Hugo at Reading in 1235, with one to the same effect from that Howel himself, are in the Canterbury archives, according to Wharton, De Episc. Assar. And one from Richard of Canterbury A.D. 1230, "de consecrat. Eliæ Landav. Episcopi extra eccles. Cantuar." (sc. Dec. 1, 1230, at Merton), is mentioned in Wharton's MSS., Lambeth 582, no. 97: and another from John of Canterbury A.D. 1280 for consecrating Thomas Beck of S. David's (at Lincoln upon October 6), dated Aug. 1, 1280, ib., no. 96: and two to the same effect and of A.D. 1256, respectively from Dean and Chapter of Llandaff, thanking the Canterbury Chapter for a like licence in the case of William of Radnor, elect of Llandaff, consecrated at S. Paul's Jan. 7, 1257, and from William of Radnor himself, ib., nos. 98, 99; and another from Griffin, elect of Bangor A.D. 1306, consecrated actually upon March 26, 1307, at Carlisle, but described in this document as to be consecrated in the church of S. Mary" in prato" at Leicester, ib., no. 101. A.D. 1240. May 15. Gloucester. [Treaty of peace and homage between Henry III. and David "Princeps Norwalliæ et dominus de Aberfrau," on the Tuesday before S. Dunstan, 24 Henry III., at Gloucester; who] "se submiserunt arbitrio venerabilium patrum O. Sancti Nicholai in carcere Tulliano diaconi Cardinalis Apostolica sedis legati, Wigorn. et Norwich. Episcoporum, et nobilis viri R. Comitis Pictaviæ et Cornubiæ fratris ipsius domini Regis, et Johannis de Monemue, ex parte ipsius domini Regis; et venerabilis patris Episcopi de Sancto Asaph, Idenenet Vaghan, et Eynguan Vaghan, ex parte præfati David," etc. [Rymer, I. 239, 240; Warrington, App. 588, 589.] A.D. 1241. Claim by the Crown to the Temporalties af Llandaff," sede vacante," as against the Lords of Glamorgan. I. ABBREV. PLACIT. Idem [sc. G. Marescall Com. Penbrok.] summonitus fuit eodem die et loco, ad ostendendum, si quod jus habet in custodia Landavensis Ecclesiæ vacantisa; et ad illud prosequendum si voluerit. Et Comes venit, et dicit quod nichil juris clamat in prædicta custodia nomine suo, nisi racione terrarum Ricardi de Clare in Glamorgan; quarum custodiam dominus Rex ei vendidit usque ad plenam etatem prædicti Ricardi, unde ipse habet cartam domini Regis. Et unde dicit, quod prædictus Ricardus et alii Barones in provincia illa, vacante sede illius Episcopatus et cujuslibet alterius, debent singuli ipsorum habere custodiam terrarum quæ de ipsis tenentur, salva solummodo domino Regi dignitate Crocie. Et ideo provisum est, quod rotuli cancellariæ queruntur: et si inveniatur quod dominus Rex vendidit Comiti prædictam custodiam, habeat eam secundum quod ei illam vendidit; et si Comes plus sibi attraxerit quam dominus Rex ei vendidit, dominus [TEMPORALTIES OF LLANDAFF SEDE VACANTE" BELONG TO THE CROWN.] Rex perquiret se versus eum. Præterea provisum fuit, quod, si domino Regi placuerit, fiat inquisicio in partibus Marchiæ per vicarios et ballivos ipsius domini Regis, si Barones Marchiæ, vacantibus sedibus Episcopatuum, debeant habere custodiam terrarum Episcopatus que de ipsis tenentur, ita quod domino Regi nichil accrescat nisi solummodo dignitas Crocie b. [25 H. III. Rot. 17 in dorso, p. 109 a. ed. 1811.] • Bishop Elias died May 6, 1240 (Ann. Theokesb.), but his actual successor was not consecrated until 1245. "Gulielmus de Christi Ecclesia," elected Bishop of Llandaff after the death of Elias de Radnor (3 id. Maii 1240), resigned sometime before 1244; in which year a Congè d'Eslire issued for the see as vacant "per resignationem Gul. de Christi Ecclesia" (Pat. 28 Hen. III. memb. 3), and his successor W. de Burgo had the Royal Assent July 17, 1244. There is no record of the consecration of Will. of Christ Church. The Excheq. Domesday Chron. (Arch. Camb., 3rd Series, VIII. 279) omits the important word, but states that De Burgo was elected, "cassata W. de Christi Ecclesia" [sc. electione], and in mentioning E. de Radnor's death, adds, "cui successit Will. de Burgo." There are three letters of Will, of Christ Church to Ralph Bishop of Chichester, calendared in the 5th Report of the Deputy Keeper of the Public Records, 1844 (p. 79, nos. 775-777), which shew him to have been employed upon the King's business in Wales. In the additions to the Owston Lib. Landav., there is an account, in Norman French, of the successive Lords of Glamorgan, who held the temporalties of Llandaff, "sede vacante:" drawn up in the 15th century, and already quoted above on A.D. 1126. It is there asserted, after the passage there quoted, that Robert of Gloucester held them between Urban and Uchtred (1134-1140); and William his son, between Uchtred and Nicolas (1148), and again on the death of Nicolas in 1183, in which year William also died himself. It is not stated to whom they then devolved, from 1183 to the consecration of William of Saltmarsh in 1186: but between William of Saltmarsh and Henry of Abergavenny (1191-1193), they were held by John "de Morteyn" (i. e. [afterwards]. King John), in right of his wife Isabella youngest daughter of William of Gloucester; between Henry (who "fist les XIIIJ. prouendres," i. e. prebends) and William of Goldclive (1218, 1219), and again on the death of William in Feb. 1230, by Gilbert de Clare Earl of Gloucester, who had inherited the Earldom and Lordship through the second daughter of William, and who himself died in 1230: and then by Richard de Clare, Gilbert's son, a minor and ward of Henry III., until the consecration of Elias de Radnor in December 1230: by Gilbert le Mareschal Earl of Pembroke as guardian of Earl Richard, between Elias and William de Burgo (1240-1245) and by Richard de Clare in his own right, between W. de Burgo and John de la Ware (1253, 1254), and again between John de la Ware and William de Radnor (1256, 1257): lastly, by Gilbert de Clare, Richard's son and heir, between Will. de Radnor and Will. de Breuse (1265. 1266), and between Will. de Breuse and John of Monmouth (1287-1297). If this statement be correct, the King must have conceded, not only his particular right of wardship sold to Gilbert Earl of Pembroke, but his general right. But at any rate, Edward I. certainly claimed and vindicated the right of the Crown, in the interval before Bishop John of Monmouth: see below under A.D. 1290, 1295. II. ANNAL. DE THEOKESB., in an. 1243.-Vacante sede Landavensi, et mortuo Mauricio Archidiacono ejusdem loci, agente etiam domino Rege in transmarinis, Ricardus de Clare dominus de Glamorgan auctoritate dominationis suæ dedit Archidiaconatum dicti loci Ra, dulfo de Novo Castro, quibusdam canonicis consentientibus, quibusdam non; qui aliquandiu illum tenuit et proventibus gaudebat. Sed processu temporis per Regios procuratores in Anglia substitutus est alius et installatus, quod prædictus Radulfus patienter sustinuit, [TEMPORALTIES OF LLANDAFF" SEDE VACANTE" BELONG TO THE CROWN.] nolens aliquam movere controversiam propter dominum suum dictum Ricardum de Clare, qui nondum suscepit saisinam terræ suæ in Anglia. Dictus vero Archidiaconus ordinavit quemdam vicarium in Capella Sancti Johannis de Kardif, ob cujus gravamen R. de Derby, tunc Prior dicti loci, præsentiam domini Papæ appellavit, et ad tuitionem appellationis suæ Capitulum Cantuariæ. Et Henricus Prior noster dictum locum adivit, ut dictam tuitionem ad judices impetraret, circa festum Sancti Michaelis. [131 Luard.] A.D. 1241. Excommunication of David Prince of North Wales by Richard Bishop of Bangor. MATT. PARIS., Hist. Angl. (in an. 1241).—[David broke faith with the Bishop by keeping his brother Gryffydd in prison,] propter quod facinus Episcopus iste recessit a Wallia, ipso David excommunicato a. [p. 569, Wats 1640.] a David surrendered Gryffydd to King Henry III. before Michaelmas 1241 (M. Paris, îb.). A.D. 1241. Aug. 29. Bishops of Bangor and S. Asaph guarantee the submission of David to Henry III. I. MATT. PARIS., Hist. Angl. (in an. 1244).—[David, Prince of North Wales, binds himself to set free his brother Gryffydd, and also to other terms of submission to Henry III., and that he will render to Henry "omnia homagia quæ dominus Johannes Rex pater suus habuit et quæ dominus Rex de jure habere debet, et specialiter omnium nobilium Wallensium," etc. etc., "apud Alnetum juxta fluvium Elvey de Sancto Asapho in festo Decollationis S. Johannis Baptistæ anno prædicti domini Regis Henrici vigesimo quinto.] ......... Et ad omnia firmiter tenenda ego David juravi super crucem sanctam quam coram me feci deportari. Venerabilis etiam pater Howelusa, Episcopus de Sancto Asapho, ad petitionem meam firmiter promisit, in ordine suo, quod hæc omnia prædicta faciet et procurabit modis quibus poterit observari. Edenevet siquidem Wangan [Vaughan] per præceptum meum illud idem juravit super crucem prædictam. Actum ut supra b. Præterea concessi pro me et hæredibus meis, quod si ego vel hæredes mei contra pacem domini Regis vel hæredum suorum vel contra articulos prædictos aliquid attentaverimus, tota hæreditas nostra domino Regi et hæredibus suis incurratur. De quibus omnibus et singulis supposui me et hæredes meos |