Gregory of Brechin
Gregory Gregoir | |
|---|---|
| Bishop of Brechin | |
 Brechin Cathedral with "Irish" round tower | |
| See | Brechin |
| In office | 1218–1242x1246 |
| Predecessor | Hugh |
| Successor | Albin |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 12th century unknown |
| Died | 1242 x 1246 unknown |
| Previous post(s) | Archdeacon of Brechin |
Gregory of Brechin (died 1242x1246) was a 13th-century prelate based in the Kingdom of Scotland.
Gregory's name appears for the first time in an
consecration on 15 December 1218.[2]
Gregory is found as a papal judge-delegate in 1219, 1224 and 1225.[3] He was present at the royal council in Forfar in 1225, and at Dundee in 1230.[3] He appears in another Arbroath document dating to 1242, his last appearance in contemporary sources.[4]
During Gregory's time
Céli Dé, governed until at least the early part of Gregory's episcopate by a prior named Máel Brigte (Mac Léoit, "MacLoud").[5] The old abbots of Brechin were in the process of becoming the secular Mac in Aba (filius Abbe, "MacNab") lords of Glen Esk.[6] Soon after Gregory's death these priests "by change of name" came to be "styled as canons".[7] Gregory may have been responsible for this nominal change.[8]
Gregory died sometime between his last appearance in 1242, and 1246 when the papacy mandated the confirmation of his successor Albin.[9]
Notes
- ^ a b Watt, Fasti Ecclesiae, p. 72
- ^ Watt, Fasti Ecclesiae, pp. 53, 72
- ^ a b Dowden, Bishops, p. 175
- ^ Dowden, Bishops, p. 175; Watt, Fasti Ecclesiae, p. 53
- ^ Barrow, "The Lost Gàidhealtachd", p. 112
- ^ Barrow, "The Lost Gàidhealtachd", p. 113
- ^ Cowan and Easson, Medieval Religious Houses, p. 47
- ^ Watt, Fasti Ecclesiae, p. 57
- ^ Watt, Fasti Ecclesiae, p. 53
References
- ISBN 1-85285-052-3
- Cowan, Ian B.; Easson, David E. (1976), Medieval Religious Houses: Scotland With an Appendix on the Houses in the Isle of Man (2nd ed.), London and New York: Longman, ISBN 0-582-12069-1
- Dowden, John (1912), Thomson, John Maitland (ed.), The Bishops of Scotland : Being Notes on the Lives of All the Bishops, under Each of the Sees, Prior to the Reformation, Glasgow: James Maclehose and Sons
- ISSN 0143-9448