Dúghall of Lorne

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Dúghall of Lorne
Roman Catholic Church
SeeDiocese of Dunblane
In office1380–1403
PredecessorAndrew Magnus
SuccessorFionnlagh MacCailein
Orders
Consecration12 September 1380 × 13 February 1381
Personal details
Bornunknown
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Died1403

Dúghall of Lorne [or de Ergadia] (died 1403) was a late 14th century and early 15th century

Robert Stewart, Earl of Fife (after 1398, Duke of Albany), before becoming Bishop of Dunblane
. He held the bishopric of Dunblane until his death in 1403.

Biography

Background and early career

Dúghall was from the diocese of Argyll.[1] His surname is given variously as de Lorne (of Lorne) or as de Ergadia (of Argyll), the surnames used by the higher-ranking members of the MacDúghaill kindred and the old lords of Argyll; he was certainly a kinsman of John Gallda, the MacDúghaill Lord of Argyll who died sometime between 1371 and 1388.[1] He was misidentified in Wood's Peerage (and those using that work thereafter) as a son of Sir John Drummond of Stobhall, the ballie of the abthen of Dull; this would have made him a brother of Anabella Drummond, wife and queen to King Robert III of Scotland.[2] He is styled Petri in a few sources, meaning perhaps that his father's name was Peadar (or Peter), though this is far from certain as that name was unusual at the time anywhere in Scotland.[1]

On 30 March 1364 Dúghall was granted a

Lismore Cathedral by the end of the decade, and Dúghall is found as a canon and prebendary of the diocese of Argyll by 11 March 1380.[1]

The papal bull confirming the erection of this new prebend did not come however until 5 May that year, shortly before Dúghall became bishop of the neighbouring

King Robert II of Scotland.[1] At Avignon on 2 June 1380, he presented a roll of petitions on the Fife's behalf to the pope.[1]

Bishop of Dunblane

Dunblane Cathedral, seat (cathedra) of the Bishop of Dunblane.

On 12 September 1380, while still at Avignon, he was provided by

Pope Clement VII to the bishopric of Dunblane; this provision apparently followed an earlier election.[7] He had almost certainly received consecration by 11 October but his consecration had certainly occurred by 13 February 1381.[8] On the latter date he was back in the Kingdom of Scotland, witnessing a charter of David Stewart, Earl of Strathearn, brother of the earl of Fife.[9]

Thereafter notice of Bishop Dúghall in the surviving sources is limited. He is next found on 1 October 1392 witnessing two charters of

Pope Benedict XIII on 1 August 1396.[10]

The last ever notice of Dúghall occurs in a charter of the lord of Byres, wherein Dúghall appears along with the Duke of Albany and Walter Trail, Bishop of St Andrews; the charter can be dated between 1398 (creation of the Duchy of Albany) and 1401 (the death of Walter Trail).[10] It is not known for certain that he is dead until 10 September 1403, when his successor Fionnlagh MacCailein was provided as the new Bishop of Dunblane.[13] It is likely his death occurred not long before the last date.[10] A papal letter of 27 April 1413 claimed that he had granted a dispensation in order to allow Elizabeth de Danielston to marry Robert de Maxwell.[14] There are indications that Bishop Dúghall may have increased the number of canons at Dunblane Cathedral, but this is very far from certain.[15]

Notes

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i Watt, Dictionary, p. 359.
  2. ^ See Dowden, Bishops, p. 205, n. 1; Cockburn, Medieval Bishops, pp. 114–5, repeats this mistake.
  3. ^ Cockburn, Medieval Bishops, p. 115; Watt, Dictionary, p. 359.
  4. ^ Burns (ed.), Papal Letters, p. 45; Watt, Dictionary, p. 359.
  5. ^ Burns (ed.), Papal Letters, pp. 45–6; Watt, Dictionary, p. 359.
  6. ^ Burns (ed.), Papal Letters, p. 45.
  7. ^ Burns (ed.), Papal Letters, p. 49; Watt & Murray, Fasti Ecclesiae, p. 101; Cockburn, Medieval Bishops, p. 114, mistakenly says 20 September.
  8. ^ Watt, Dictionary, pp. 359–60; Watt & Murray, Fasti Ecclessiae, p. 101; for 11 October, see papal mandate addressed to the Abbot of Cambuskenneth, the Archdeacon of Dunkeld and the Official of the diocese of St Andrews, Burns (ed.), Papal Letters, pp. 49–50.
  9. ^ Dowden, Bishops, p. 205; Watt, Dictionary, p. 360.
  10. ^ a b c d Watt, Dictionary, p. 360.
  11. ^ McGurk (ed.), Papal Letters, p. 29.
  12. ^ Burns (ed.), Papal Letters, pp. 46–7.
  13. ^ Burns (ed.), Papal Letters, p. 107; Watt, Dictionary, p. 360; Watt & Murray, Fasti Ecclesiae, p. 102.
  14. ^ Burns (ed.), Papal Letters, pp. 270–1.
  15. ^ Cockburn, Medieval Bishops, p. 117.

References

  • Burns, Charles (ed.), Papal Letters to Scotland of Clement VII of Avignon, 1378—1394, (Edinburgh, 1976)
  • Cockburn, James Hutchison
    , The Medieval Bishops of Dunblane and Their Church, (Edinburgh, 1959)
  • Dowden, John, The Bishops of Scotland, ed. J. Maitland Thomson, (Glasgow, 1912)
  • McGurk, Francis (ed.), Calendar of Papal Letters to Scotland of Benedict XIII of Avignon, 1394-1419, (Edinburgh, 1976)
  • Watt, D. E. R., A Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Graduates to A. D. 1410, (Oxford, 1977)
  • Watt, D. E. R., & Murray, A. L., Fasti Ecclesiae Scotinanae Medii Aevi ad annum 1638, Revised Edition, (Edinburgh, 2003)
Religious titles
Preceded by Bishop of Dunblane
1380–1403
Succeeded by