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Richard de Potton

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Potton's episcopate is rather obscure, though his few years in charge seem to have been very significant ones for the history of the bishopric. He is said in one account to have united the churches of St Mary's and St Machar's into one
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Registrum Episcopatus Aberdonensis: Ecclesie Cathedralis Aberdonensis Regesta Que Extant in Unum Collecta
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noted that, although an Englishman, he took an oath of fidelity to King
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An Historical Catalogue of the Scottish Bishops: Down to the Year 1688
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Two different dates have been given for his death.
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Fasti Ecclesiae Scotinanae Medii Aevi ad annum 1638
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Index

English
bishop
Potton
Bedfordshire
England
Peter de Ramsay
Bishop of Aberdeen
John of Fordun
Alexander III of Scotland
bishopric
cathedral
Crimond
prebend
Walter Bower
Hugh de Benin
Dowden, John
Innes, Cosmo
Watt, D.E.R.
Peter de Ramsey
Bishop of Aberdeen
Hugh de Benin
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Bishops of Aberdeen
Beóán of Mortlach
Donercius
Cormac of Mortlach
Nechtan of Aberdeen
Nechtan of Aberdeen

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