Thomas de Rossy (bishop of the Isles)

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Thomas de Rossy
Canon of Dunkeld

Thomas de Rossy (died 1348) was a fourteenth-century

Probably while at the

papal curia, he was consecrated at some point between 7 and 10 June 1331.[3] The Chronicles of Mann states that Thomas de Rossy "was the first to exact from the churches of Mann twenty shillings for visitation dues", and that "he was also the first who exacted from the parochial rectors the tithes received by them from strangers engaged in the herring fishery".[4] His surname is known from a papal record dating to 1346, a record concerning the future of a benefice Thomas held before he was promoted to episcopal status.[5]

According to the Chronicle, after an episcopate of eighteen years, he died on 20 September 1348 and was buried at Scone.[6]

Notes

  1. ^ Watt & Murray, Fasti Ecclesiae, p. 262.
  2. ^ Dowden, Bishops, p. 282; Watt & Murray, Fasti Ecclesiae, p. 262.
  3. ^ Watt & Murray, Fasti Ecclesiae, p. 262.
  4. ^ Munch & Goss, Chronica regum Manniae, vol. i ; see also Dowden, Bishops, p. 282.
  5. ^ Watt & Murray, Fasti Ecclesiae, p. 262.
  6. ^ Dowden, Bishops, p. 282; Munch & Goss, Chronica regum Manniae, vol. i ; Watt & Murray, Fasti Ecclesiae, p. 262.

References

  • 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.
  • Munch, Peter Andreas; Goss, Alexander, eds. (1988). Chronica regum Manniae et Insularum: The Chronicle of Man and the Sudreys from the Manuscript Codex in the British Museum, with Historical Notes. Vol. i (Rev. ed.). Douglas: Manx Society.
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Religious titles
Preceded by Bishop of the Isles
1331–1348
Succeeded by
William Russell