Maurice of Inchaffray

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Maurice blessing the Scottish army at Bannockburn.

Maurice (

Roger de Ballinbreich had also been elected by the chapter; both of these men were overlooked by the Pope in Maurice's favour.[4]

Maurice has achieved some popular fame because of his role as an early supporter of King

St Fillan, but for safety left the actual arm of the saint in the monastery. The arm-bone, however, miraculously made its own way to the battlefield where it helped bring the Scots victory.[8]

His later career is largely unrecorded. He died in the 1340s, definitely before 23 October 1347, when William de Cambuslang, his successor as Bishop of Dunblane, was consecrated.

Notes

  1. ^ Ian B. Cowan, & David E. Easson, Medieval Religious Houses: Scotland With an Appendix on the Houses in the Isle of Man, (London, 1976), 108.
  2. ^ Ibid, p. 102.
  3. ^ James Hutchison Cockburn, The Medieval Bishops of Dunblane and Their Church, (Edinburgh, 1959), pp. 54, 90.
  4. ^ D. E. R. Watt, Fasti Ecclesiae Scotinanae Medii Aevi ad annum 1638, 2nd Draft, (St Andrews, 1969), p. 76.
  5. ^ G. W. S., Barrow, Robert Bruce and the Community of the Realm of Scotland, (Edinburgh, 1988), p. 60.
  6. ^ Chris Brown, Robert the Bruce: A Life Chronicled, (Stroud, 2004), p. 9.
  7. ^ Barrow, Robert Bruce, p. 200.
  8. ^ Cockburn, Medieval Bishops of Dunblane, 93.

References

  • Barrow, G. W. S., Robert Bruce and the Community of the Realm of Scotland, (Edinburgh, 1988)
  • Brown, Chris, Robert the Bruce: A Life Chronicled, (Stroud, 2004)
  • Cockburn, James Hutchison
    , The Medieval Bishops of Dunblane and Their Church, (Edinburgh, 1959)
  • Cowan, Ian B. & Easson, David E., Medieval Religious Houses: Scotland With an Appendix on the Houses in the Isle of Man, (London, 1976)
  • Watt, D. E. R., Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae Medii Aevi ad annum 1638, 2nd Draft, (St Andrews, 1969)
Religious titles
Preceded by
Adam
Prior of Inchmahome
1297 x 1309
Succeeded by
Crístin
Preceded by
Thomas
Abbot of Inchaffray
1303 x 1305–1322
Succeeded by
Crístin
Preceded by Bishop of Dunblane
1319 x 1322–x 1347
Succeeded by