David de Bernham

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| see = Diocese of St Andrews

| term = 1240–1253

| predecessor = William de Malveisin

| successor = Abel de Golynn

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David de Bernham (died 1253) was Chamberlain of King Alexander II of Scotland and subsequently, Bishop of St Andrews. He was elected to the see in June 1239, and finally consecrated, after some difficulties, in January 1240. He died at Nenthorn in 1253 and was buried at Kelso.{{cite journal |last1=Hardy |first1=James |title=An Account of Simprin, Berwickshire |journal=History of the Berwickshire Naturalists' Club |date=1879 |volume=8 |page=295 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XgxBAQAAMAAJ&q=david%20de%20bernham |access-date=12 Oct 2022}} One interesting feature of his life which has left a written record is the fact that as bishop of St Andrews he consecrated a long list of churches in his diocese. These churches are listed by name, together with the dates on which they were consecrated, in the 1240s, in a 13th-century Pontifical now in the Bibliothèque National, Paris (B.N. Latin 1218).

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Election and consecration

On 3 June 1239 David de Bernham was elected Bishop of St Andrews, and on 22 January following was consecrated by the Bishops of Glasgow, Caithness, and Brechin. He at once set about a visitation of his large Diocese, that extended along the East Coast from the Tweed to the Dee; and the Paris Manuscript is the Service Book used for Dedications, while it also contains the roll of his Church Dedications, which were carried on till near the time when his Episcopate closed in 1253.{{sfn|de Bernham|1885|page=[https://archive.org/details/pontificaleeccle00cath/page/n27/mode/2up xxi]}}

Details of his dedications

In his first year, De Bernham was in the southern part of his See, and dedicated Churches at Lasswade on 7 May, Perth (a predecessor of today's St John's Kirk) about a week after, and North Berwick on 8 July. In 1241, also, he was for the most part in the South, in the Counties of Berwick and Haddington, but he first dedicated St Ninian's, near Stirling, on 16 August, and after three months came northwards again, and has Consecrations at Forteviot in Perthshire, and Kinnettles in Forfarshire, the latter on 11 November. The following year is one of great Episcopal activity, and the only time open for attendance at a Provincial Council held in Perth was from near the middle of June to the middle of July. But in the Spring of this year he held a Synod at Musselburgh, where some Canons were enacted. Early in the Spring (14 March) he is at Mid-Calder, to the west of the Pentlands, and two days after dedicates St Cuthbert's, under the shadow of the Castle, in Edinburgh.{{sfn|de Bernham|1885|page=[https://archive.org/details/pontificaleeccle00cath/page/n27/mode/2up xxi]}}

References

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{{cite journal |last1=Ash |first1=Marinell |title=David Bernham, Bishop of St Andrews, 1239-1253 |journal=The Innes Review |date=June 1974 |volume=25 |issue=1 |pages=3–14 |doi=10.3366/inr.1974.25.1.3 |url=https://www.euppublishing.com/doi/10.3366/inr.1974.25.1.3|url-access=subscription }}
{{cite book |last1=de Bernham |first1=David |title=The pontifical offices used by David de Bernham, Bishop of S. Andrews |date=1885 |publisher=Pitsligo Press |location=Edinburgh |url=https://archive.org/details/pontificaleeccle00cath/page/n3/mode/2up}}{{PD-notice}}
{{cite journal |last1=Dowden |first1=John |title=NOTES ON THE SUCCESSION OF THE BISHOPS OF ST. ANDREWS FROM A.D. 1093 TO A.D. 1571. I |journal=Journal of Theological Studies |date=1904 |volume=4 |issue=16 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/journaltheologi07unkngoog/page/n630/mode/2up 603]-604 |url=https://archive.org/details/journaltheologi07unkngoog}}
{{cite book |last1=Dowden |first1=John |title=The Bishops of Scotland, being notes on the lives of all the Bishops, under each of the Sees, prior to the Restoration |date=1912 |publisher=Maclehose |location=Glasgow |pages=[https://archive.org/details/bishopsofscotlan00dowdrich/page/14/mode/2up 14]-15 |url=https://archive.org/details/bishopsofscotlan00dowdrich}}
{{cite ODNB|title=Bernham, David of|last=Duncan|first=A. A. M.|id=50015|author-link=Archie Duncan (historian)|date=2004}}
{{cite book |last1=Easson |first1=D. E. |date=1944|title=The dedications of Bishop David de Bernham |publisher=Scottish Church History Society |pages=[https://archive.org/details/rschsv08p2easson/mode/2up 97]-113 |url=https://archive.org/details/rschsv08p2easson}}
{{cite journal |last1=Lamont-Brown |first1=Raymond |title=St Andrews, Berwickshire, Berwick: a skein of medieval links |journal=History of the Berwickshire Naturalists' Club |date=1990 |volume=45 |issue=pt1 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/historyofberwick4511berw/page/10/mode/2up?q=david+de+bernham 10]-11 |url=https://archive.org/details/historyofberwick4511berw}}
{{cite book |last1=Lockhart |first1=William |title=The Church of Scotland in the thirteenth century; the life and times of David de Bernham of St. Andrews (Bishop) A.D. 1239 to 1253 |date=1892 |publisher=W. Blackwood |location=Edinburgh |pages=[https://archive.org/details/churchofscotland00lock/page/16/mode/2up 17]-24 |url=https://archive.org/details/churchofscotland00lock}}
{{cite book |last1=Lyon |first1=C. J. |title=History of St. Andrews, episcopal, monastic, academic, and civil, comprising the principal part of the ecclesiastical history of Scotland, from the earliest age till the present time |date=1843 |publisher=W. Tait |location=Edinburgh |pages=[https://archive.org/details/historyofstandre01lyon/page/110/mode/2up 110]-116 |url=https://archive.org/details/historyofstandre01lyon}}
{{cite book |last1=Mann |first1=Horace K. |title=The lives of the popes in the early middle ages |date=1925 |publisher=K. Paul |location=London |pages=[https://archive.org/details/livesofpopesinea0013mann/page/386/mode/2up 387]-389 |volume=13 |url=https://archive.org/details/livesofpopesinea0013mann}}
{{cite web |title=David of Bernham, bishop of St Andrews (d.1253) |url=https://www.poms.ac.uk/record/person/432 |website=PoMS |ref=no. 432}}
{{cite news |last1=Southern |first1=Keiran |title=Family finds 15th century gold coins while pulling weeds in garden |url=https://www.independent.ie/entertainment/family-finds-15th-century-gold-coins-while-pulling-weeds-in-garden-39843810.html |agency=Independent.ie |date=9 December 2020}}

{{succession box | title=Bishop of St Andrews
(Cell Rígmonaid) | before=William de Malveisin
Galfred de Liberatione (failed postulation) | after=Robert de Stuteville (unconsecrated)
Abel de Golynn (consecrated)| years=1239/40–1253}}

Category:1253 deaths

Category:Bishops of St Andrews

Category:13th-century Scottish Roman Catholic bishops

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Category:Lord high chamberlains of Scotland