He appears again in a Brechin document dating either 1256x1261 or 1267.[1] His surname de Crachin, unknown to historians such as John Dowden, occurs in National Library of Scotland MS 34.6.24 fo. 377, the underlying text of which dates 1246 x 1266.[2]
Between 1269 and 1275 he was elected bishop of Brechin.[3] He had died by 24 May 1275 (date of mandate for his successor's provision).[4] The Chronica Extracta says that he died, still merely "elect" (i.e. not having received consecration) at the Second Council of Lyons, though there is uncertainty among modern writers about the reliability of this extract.[5]
The Chronica described him as "a man in all things praiseworthy, but of harsh voice".[6]
Dowden, John (1912), Thomson, John Maitland (ed.), The Bishops of Scotland : Being Notes on the Lives of All the Bishops, under Each of the Sees, Prior to the Reformation, Glasgow: James Maclehose and Sons
Watt, D. E. R.; Murray, A. L., eds. (2003), Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae Medii Aevi ad annum 1638, The Scottish Record Society, New Series, Volume 25 (Revised ed.), Edinburgh: The Scottish Record Society, ISBN0-902054-19-8, ISSN0143-9448
