Matthew (bishop of Aberdeen)

Matthew (died 1199) was a 12th-century churchman residing in Scotland. He is the first man known to have held the position of Archdeacon of St Andrews, his first known ecclesiastical post. He occurs in this office in a document which can be dated to some point between August 1147 and June 1152. Bishop Edward, Bishop of Aberdeen, died in 1172 and Archdeacon Matthew was elected as the successor. He was consecrated on 2 April 1172.

Matthew was the principal prelate in charge of the consecration of John the Scot at Holyrood Abbey on 15 June 1180. Matthew maintained his links with Fife, appearing in numerous charters relating to that province. He had a brother named Odo who was the dapifer ("steward") of Ernald, Bishop of St Andrews (1160–63). His family may have been the one that eventually took the locative surname "de Kininmund" (or variants). He died on 20 August 1199 and was succeeded by John, the prior of Kelso Abbey.

References

Dowden, John, The Bishops of Scotland, ed. J. Maitland Thomson, (Glasgow, 1912), pp. 99–100
Innes, Cosmo, Registrum Episcopatus Aberdonensis: Ecclesie Cathedralis Aberdonensis Regesta Que Extant in Unum Collecta, Vol. 1, (Edinburgh, 1845), pp. xx-i
Keith, Robert, An Historical Catalogue of the Scottish Bishops: Down to the Year 1688, (London, 1924), pp. 104–5
Watt, D.E.R., Fasti Ecclesiae Scotinanae Medii Aevi ad annum 1638, 2nd Draft, (St Andrews, 1969), pp. 1, 304

Religious titles
Preceded by Uncertain	Archdeacon of St Andrews between 1147 and 1152–1172	Succeeded by Walter de Roxburgh
Preceded by Edward	Bishop of Aberdeen 1172–1199	Succeeded by John
Legal offices
Preceded by Donnchad II, Earl of Fife	Justiciar of Scotia between 1172–1199 with Donnchad II, Earl of Fife (c. 1172–1199) Gille Brigte, Earl of Strathearn (c. 1172–1199)	Succeeded by Donnchad II, Earl of Fife

Bishops of Aberdeen

Bishops of Mortlach	Beóán of Mortlach Donercius Cormac of Mortlach Nechtan of Aberdeen

Pre-Reformation	Nechtan of Aberdeen Edward of Aberdeen Matthew John of Kelso Adam de Kald Matthew the Scot Gilbert de Stirling Radulf de Lamley Peter de Ramsay Richard de Potton Hugh de Benin Henry le Chen Walter Herok Alexander de Kininmund (elder) William de Deyn John de Rait Alexander de Kininmund (younger) Adam de Tyninghame Gilbert de Greenlaw Henry de Lichton Ingram Lindsay Thomas Spens Robert Blackadder William Elphinstone James Ogilvie Robert Forman Alexander Gordon Gavin Dunbar George Learmond William Stewart William Gordon

Church of Scotland	David Cunningham Peter Blackburn Alexander Forbes Patrick Forbes Adam Bellenden David Mitchel Alexander Burnet Patrick Scougal George Haliburton

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