Gregoir of Rosemarkie
Gregoir [Gregory, Gregorius] (died 1195) is the third known 12th century Bishop of Ross, an episcopal see then based at Rosemarkie.
Gregoir | |
|---|---|
| Bishop of Ross | |
| Church | Roman Catholic Church |
| See | Diocese of Ross |
| In office | 1161–1195 |
| Predecessor | Symeon |
| Successor | Reinald Macer |
| Personal details | |
| Born | unknown unknown |
| Died | 1195 |
Biography
According to the Chronicle of Melrose, Gregoir was consecrated by Ernald, Bishop of St Andrews acting as a Papal legate, in 1161.[1]
He occurred in a document of Scone Abbey in either 1163 or 1164, namely in "the eleventh year of Malcolm", the year ending 23 May 1164.[2] He witnessed a charter issued at Inverness by King William the Lion, datable to between 1172 and 1174, confirming a gift of land made by Simon de Tosny, Bishop of Moray, to a hermit in Inverness-shire.[3] Little more is known of his episcopate.
The Chronicle of Melrose reported his death in 1195, and the election of his successor Reinald Macer in March of that year.[4] The English chronicler Roger of Howden gave his death-date for the same year, and added that it fell in the month of February.[5]
Notes
- Anderson, Early Sources, vol. ii, p. 247; Dowden, Bishops, p. 209; Watt, Fasti Ecclesiae, p. 266.
- Dowden, Bishops, p. 209.
- Barrow (ed.), Acts of William I, no. 142.
- Anderson, Early Sources, p. 343; Watt, Fasti Ecclesiae, p. 266.
- Dowden, Bishops, p. 210.
References
- Anderson, Alan Orr, Early Sources of Scottish History, 2 vols, (Edinburgh, 1922)
- Barrow, G. W. S. (ed.), The Acts of William I (Regesta Regum Scottorum vol. ii), (Edinburgh, 1971)
- Dowden, John, The Bishops of Scotland, ed. J. Maitland Thomson, (Glasgow, 1912)
- Keith, Robert, An Historical Catalogue of the Scottish Bishops: Down to the Year 1688, (London, 1924)
- Watt, D. E. R., Fasti Ecclesiae Scotinanae Medii Aevi ad annum 1638, 2nd Draft, (St Andrews, 1969)