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ST. ASAPH.

1186
32 Hen. II.
Reiner[1], consecrated, according to Wikes, in 1186[2]. He was present at the synod holden 19th Oct. 1200[3]; and there was a bishop of St. Asaph, whose initial was R, who was alive in 1219 and 1223. If this be the same prelate who died in 1224[4], he must have been bishop thirty-eight years.

1225
10 Hen. III.
Abraham was consecrated bishop of St. Asaph in 1225[5], and died about 1233[6]. A congé d'élire addressed to the archdeacon and chapter of St. Asaph, issued 4th Feb. 1233[7], in pursuance of which,

1233
18 Hen. III
Hugh, a monk of the order of Friars Preachers, was chosen. The royal assent was given to his election 11th April 1233[8], and he was consecrated at Reading 17th June 1235[9]. He witnessed a charter to the monastery of Basingwerk, dated at Coleshill on the Feast of St. James (25th July) 1240[10]; and 30th Aug. 1241 he was a surety for David prince of Wales[11]. The exact date of his death has not been ascertained; but he was succeeded by

1242
26 Hen. III.
Howel ap Ednevet, who was consecrated at Boxgrave in 1242[12]. He died at Oxford, where he was buried, in 1247[13].

  1. Ralph de Diceto (in Ymag. Hist.) calls him William. "Willielmus etiam Prior ipsa die (10th Aug. 1186) consecratus est Episcopus Sancti Assavi." col. 630.
  2. Chron. Wikes, p.33.
  3. Rad. de Diceto, col. 707.
  4. Annal. Theok.
  5. Annal. Wigorn. p. 487.
  6. Sanè Ephraim Episcopum Laneluensem anno 1234, obiisse Chronicon Wallense à Pouelo editum tradit ; quod quidem nomen pro Abrahamo, errore facili positumvidetur. Whart.de Epis. Assav. p. 316.
  7. Pat. 17 Hen. III. m. 6.
  8. Pat. 18 Hen. III. m. 15.
  9. Reg. Cantuar.
  10. Printed in Monast. vol. i. p. 721. original edition.
  11. Pat. 25 Hen.III. m. 1. dorso.
  12. He could not have been consecrated by archbishop Edmund, as the Canterbury Register asserts, for that prelate died in 1240. The same Register commits a still greater anachronism in stating that Howel was consecrated with Robert Grosthead: that bishop was certainly consecrated by archbishop Edmund, but the ceremony was performed 3rd June 1235, seven years before the election of Howel ap Ednevet.
  13. Annal. Wigorn. 493.