516:. The dispute with the archdeacon Gilbert Forrester continued, Forrester's excommunication being renewed on 30 July 1448. Forrester tried to secure exemption from episcopal authority at the Roman court. Although Crannach resisted Forrester, the bishop-archdeacon dispute was to continue after Crannach's death. Crannach also attacked his dean, John de Lichton (Leighton) for inefficiency and immorality.
489:. In June 1430 Crannach obtained a license to visit his diocese by proxy, and only in March 1433 is he found once again in his diocese. From 1433 to 1436 there is an intense period of activity by the bishop, the extant records emphasizing the bishop's attempts to secure his revenues and property. There was a dispute with Gilbert Forrester, the
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Although largely absent from his diocese between 1436 and 1445, his presence is on record for
January 1439, February 1441, and February 1445. From 1445 onwards he appears settled in his diocese, and the evidence once again indicates Crannach's concern with securing the rights and privileges of his
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as a diplomat, counsellor and "household master of requests" . He headed an embassy to
Scotland in 1419 that resulted in a Scottish army being brought to France. He was still in the service of Charles, now king, when
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As a diocesan, Crannach was much absent, taking up residence in his diocese in three periods: 1429, 1433–1436, and from 1445 onwards. In 1429, he witnessed the foundation of a college of priests at
Brechin by
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Crannach was in Rome in 1424, probably in relation to his bishopric, provision to which was renewed in
Crannach's presence on 11 December 1424. Although his kinsmen and other agents were drawing revenue from the
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of
Brechin and nephew of the previous bishop. Forrester, who perhaps thought himself entitled to the episcopal office, is said to have assaulted the bishop in church, and was subsequently excommunicated by the
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speakers) and head of the
Scottish province therein. He served as representative of the university at a Paris ecclesiastical council, 30 November 1413, which debated and denounced the arguments of theologian
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of
Brechin from 1440 to sometime between 1453 and 1457, as well as dean of Dunblane (1430–1439 or 1440). His uncle, Adam de Crannach (also "de Aberdeen"), was also a prominent Augustistian, serving as
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Crannach's activities immediately following his translation to
Brechin are not clear, but he did not appear again in Scotland until May 1429. In December that year he departed to the papal court via
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Crannach's death in 1456, but this is incorrect. Crannach's last appearance in surviving contemporary sources is 17 November 1453. He was dead by 8 March 1454, when his successor
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in 1433, but this seems to have been done by his brother Robert de
Crannach. He helped negotiate the royal marriage between Scotland and France, and conducted James' daughter
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on 13 June 1436. He was at Bruges in July 1436, and at Rome between February and July 1437, again in 1440, and yet again from September to November 1442.
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on a mission to reverse a papal citation of Bishop Cameron, and while at the papal court in 1430 he and Cameron's other proctor, Thomas de Merton, were
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506:(Angus). He endowed a chaplaincy on 11 June 1451 for the benefit of his own soul, and for the soul of his former lord Walter Stewart, despite the
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430:. Crannach was consecrated at some point between October 1426 and October 1427. He was in Rome in 1426 as part of an embassy sent by the
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and Master of Arts in May 1406. He was regent of the Arts between 1406 and his departure from the university in 1417. The famous
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due to Cameron's failure to pay the money due for confirmation of the bishopric; the excommunication was lifted in 1432.
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and probably had yet to visit the diocese even in June 1426.
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of Brechin. His third brother, Robert de Crannach, was
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