David Martin (bishop)

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David Martin (also Martyn ) († March 9, 1328 ) was a Welsh clergyman. From 1293 he was Bishop of St Davids .

Origin and election as bishop

David Martin was the fifth son of Nicholas FitzMartin , the Anglo-Norman Lord of Cemais in Wales. His older brother William Martin inherited the family's estates in Wales and south-west England after their father's death in 1282. As a younger son, David Martin had become a clergyman and held other benefices as a canon at St David's Cathedral in Bratton Fleming and Ermington in Devon . In June 1293 he was elected bishop of the Welsh diocese of St Davids . King Edward I confirmed the election of Martin on July 28, 1293, but Canon Thomas de Goldesburgh , who had been elected by a minority in the cathedral chapter , appealed to the Archbishop of Canterbury against the election. On October 1, the prior of Canterbury, representing Archbishop Winchelsey, confirmed the legitimacy of Martin's election, having been elected by a clear majority of fourteen to six. On October 11th, the temporalities of the diocese were given to Martin . Goldesburgh had now appealed to the Curia against the election, so that Martin had to travel to Rome to enforce his claim there. In a letter in August 1295, Edward I recommended Pope Boniface VIII to appoint Martin bishop, but it was not until 1296 that the papal confirmation of the election of Martin took place. On September 30, 1296, Martin was ordained bishop in Rome by Hugues Aycelin , Cardinal Bishop of Ostia. At the beginning of 1297 he returned to England, where on January 24th the temporalia were handed over to him again.

Activity as bishop

Little is known about Martin's activity as a bishop. In March 1310 he was elected Lord Ordainer , a 21-member commission of magnates and clergy who were to work out a reform program for the government of King Edward II . After the execution of the royal favorite Piers Gaveston by opposition magnates in 1312, he conducted negotiations with the magnates in February 1313 on behalf of the papal envoy, the cardinals Arnaud Nouvel and Arnaud d'Aux . At the end of December 1317 he took part in a royal council meeting at Westminster , and on August 9, 1318 he testified with the Treaty of Leake , through which a compromise between Edward II and his main domestic opponent, the Earl of Lancaster , should be achieved.

Web links

  • ST DAVIDS: Bishops. In: MJ Pearson: Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1066-1300: Volume 9, the Welsh Cathedrals (Bangor, Llandaff, St Asaph, St Davids) , University of London, 2003, ISBN 1-871348-88-9 , pp. 45-50 ( British History Online )
  • Bishops of St Davids . In: Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1300–1541: Volume 11, the Welsh Dioceses (Bangor, Llandaff, St Asaph, St Davids) , ed. B Jones (London, 1965), p. 53 ( British History Online )

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Kathleen Edwards, The Social Origins and Provenance of the English Bishops during the Reign of Edward II . In: Transactions of the Royal Historical Society , Vol. 9 (1959), p. 58
  2. ↑ Seymour Phillips: Edward II . New Haven, Yale University Press 2010. ISBN 978-0-300-15657-7 , pp. 166
  3. ↑ John Roland Seymour Phillips: Aymer de Valence, earl of Pembroke, 1307-1324. Baronial politics in the reign of Edward II. Clarendon, Oxford 1972, ISBN 0-19-822359-5 , p. 58
  4. ↑ John Roland Seymour Phillips: Aymer de Valence, earl of Pembroke, 1307-1324. Baronial politics in the reign of Edward II. Clarendon, Oxford 1972, ISBN 0-19-822359-5 , p. 154
  5. ↑ John Robert Maddicott: Thomas of Lancaster, 1307-1322. A Study in the Reign of Edward II. Oxford University Press, Oxford 1970, p. 226
predecessor Office successor
Thomas Bek Bishop of St. Davids
1293-1328 		Henry Gower
personal data
SURNAME Martin, David
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Martyn, David
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Welsh clergyman, Bishop of St Davids
DATE OF BIRTH 13th Century
DATE OF DEATH March 9, 1328