Bishop Adam of Caithness, who had tried to enforce the payment of tithes in the Norse-influenced province, was seized by an angry mob and burned alive in his kitchen. Alexander II's response was swift and savage -- he marched north personally and had the ringleaders mutilated: hands and feet cut off. The affair illustrated both the continuing tensions between Norse-influenced Caithness and Scottish royal authority, and Alexander II's determination to enforce it. Pope Honorius III canonised Adam of Caithness.
Bishop Adam burned; rebels mutilated by royal order
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