Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Hugo de Benhyem or Hugh Benham (d. 1282) was bishop of Aberdeen; he succeeded Richard Pottock in the see in 1272. After his election he went to Rome, and was consecrated by Pope Martin IV. Shortly after his return to Scotland he was made arbiter of a dispute about tithes between the clergy and the laity of the kingdom, and in a provincial council held at Perth was successful in effecting an arrangement of the difference. He died in 1282 at Loch Goul (now called Bishops Loch, in the parish of New Machar), where the bishops had their lodging before the canonry was erected. Boethius ascribes his death to sudden suffocation from catarrh, but according to another tradition he was slain in an ambuscade. He was the author of Provincialium Statutorum Sanctiones and Novæ Episcoporum Prærogativæ.. }
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- Hugo_de_Benhyem abstract "Hugo de Benhyem or Hugh Benham (d. 1282) was bishop of Aberdeen; he succeeded Richard Pottock in the see in 1272. After his election he went to Rome, and was consecrated by Pope Martin IV. Shortly after his return to Scotland he was made arbiter of a dispute about tithes between the clergy and the laity of the kingdom, and in a provincial council held at Perth was successful in effecting an arrangement of the difference. He died in 1282 at Loch Goul (now called Bishops Loch, in the parish of New Machar), where the bishops had their lodging before the canonry was erected. Boethius ascribes his death to sudden suffocation from catarrh, but according to another tradition he was slain in an ambuscade. He was the author of Provincialium Statutorum Sanctiones and Novæ Episcoporum Prærogativæ.".