| Type: | Bishop |
| Nicholas | |
| Bishop of Brechin | |
| See: | Brechin |
| Term: | 1297 - 1298 |
| Successor: | John de Kininmund |
| Birth Date: | unknown |
| Birth Place: | unknown |
| Death Date: | 1298 (likely) |
| Death Place: | unknown |
| Previous Post: | Sub-Dean of Brechin |
Nicholas (died c. 1298) was a Scottish churchman and prelate active at the end of the 13th century. While holding the office of sub-dean of Brechin Cathedral, he got provided bishop of Brechin by Pope Boniface VIII on 21 January 1297.[1]
A concurrent mandate was sent, significantly, to John Balliol, King of the Scots rather than Edward I.[2]
He was consecrated on the same day by Giovanni Boccamazza, Cardinal-Bishop of Tusculum.[3]
Bishop Nicholas is known only from papal documents, and his episcopate was short.[4] Although there is no date for Nicholas' death, he had died by 1 June 1298, when his successor John de Kininmund was appointed Brechin bishop.[2]
He is the first known holder of the office of sub-dean of Brechin, though not necessarily the first; holders of this office are poorly recorded, the next known holder being the mid-14th-century William de Forres.[5]