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1236
20 H. III.

Howel was elected, but it does not appear on what day he was consecrated.

1237
21 H. III.

Richard, archdeacon of Bangor, received the royal assent to his election 3rd July 1237^[1]. He is generally supposed to have succeeded in 1240 and to have been consecrated in 1250, but those dates are incorrect, as shewn by the date of the royal assent; moreover, in a letter to the Pope he asserts, " se episcopatum Bangorense plusquam triginta annos rexisse;" and as his successor Anian was consecrated in 1267, it is impossible that he could have succeeded later than 1237. The license to elect a bishop in the room of Richard is dated 8th Nov. 1267^[2], and

1267
52 H. III.

Anian, archdeacon of Anglesey, was elected, and received the royal assent to his election 12th Dec. 1267^[3], on which day the temporalities were restored to him^[3]: he also made his profession of obedience to Boniface archbishop of Canterbury in that month^[4]. The time of his death is uncertain, but he was alive 26th May 1305^[5].

Caducan (possibly archdeacon of Bangor in 1291) is made to succeed Anian, by Godwin in 1306 and by Le Neve in 1303, but there is no evidence extant to prove that a bishop of that name presided over the see of Bangor at that time.

1307
35 Edw. I.

Griffin ap Yerward was consecrated at Carlisle by cardinal Peter De Spano 26th March 1307, because his consecration could not conveniently take place at Canterbury^[6]. He died on Sunday next before the feast of St. Philip and St. James [27th May] 1309^[7].

1. Pat. 20 Hen. III. m. 5.
2. Pat. 52 Hen. III. m. 36.
3. Ibid. m. 33.
4. Reg. Cantuar.
5. Claus. 33 Edw. I. m. 12. in dorso.
6. Reg. Ebor. Greenf. 1306—7 Licencia concessa domino Griffino Bangor, ecclesiae electo et confirmato ut extra ecclesiam Cantuar. consecrari valeat; dat. v Id. Marc. 1306. Reg. Hen. Prioris Cantuar.
7. Litt. in Turr. Lend. S. 121.