Archdeacon Of Aran

1 recorded holder. ← all offices

The succession the rolls themselves record for this office, earliest first — a finding aid drawn from the roll text, not an authoritative fasti. Spelling variants of one holder now fold together where the volumes' own printed indexes attest them (“Burghers” and “Burghersh” are one man when the editors say so); the opposite case — one name hiding two men — is proposed from the same indexes and from matched identities, and separates only after human confirmation. Until then a shared name lists as one holder, and the list can be checked against printed succession lists (Fasti / VCH).

1. William de Testa 1307 ×20
   • 1307-03-15 — Mandate to Humphrey de Waleden, keeper of the archbishopric of Canterbury, at the request of pope Clement, to deliver the archbishopric, with the issues receive…
   • 1307-03-15 — Grant to Masters William Testa, archdeacon of Aran, in the church of Comminges (Conrenarum), and Peter Amalvini, canon of Bordeaux, notwithstanding the prohibit…
   • undated — To William de Thorritest, one of the king's clerks, who holds by papal dispensation the rectories of Kneshale, Walington, Fonstone, and Doderhulle, in the dioce…
   • undated — To the same. Indult to spend seven years with a companion in the study of civil law, while holding their benefices. To the same. Dispensation to retain bis bene…
   • undated — To the bishop of Worcester and Master William Testa, archdeacon of Aran, and three others named. Mandate to 4 CLEMENT V. 65 collect Holy Land tenths, legacies, …
   • undated — The like indult. Concurrent mandate as above. To William Testa, archdeacon of Aran, in the church of Comminges, and Garsias Arnaldi de Gallens, canon of Auch.
   • undated — Confirmation of the collation of the rectory of Shoreham and the canonry and prebend of Wingham, in the dioceses of Rochester and Canterbury, made by William Te…
   • undated — The like to Jobn de Sandale. To Hugh de Pentris. He was successively succentor of Wells, value 8 marks, and holding a canonry and bursal prebend of the same, re…

Ordered by the first date each holder appears with the office — where a holder is undated they sort last. Dates are the roll entries' own, not tenure dates.
Cite: “archdeacon of Aran”, Reading the Rolls, https://readingtherolls.com/office/archdeacon-of-aran, accessed 2026-07-25. Derived from the printed calendars of the medieval English royal records.