Mac Bethad of Rosemarkie

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Mac Bethad (fl. 1127 x 1131) is the first recorded High Medieval Bishop of Ross, a See then located at Rosemarkie.

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He makes his only historical appearance as Macbeth Rosmarkensis Episcopus (i.e. "Mac Bethad, Bishop of Rosemarkie") in a list of witnesses to a charter granted by King David I of Scotland to the Church of Dunfermline, confirming the previous rights of that church. [1]

The charter is dated by its modern editor to 1128, [2] but is more safely dated to the period between the years 1127 and 1131. [3]

Notes

  1. ↑ Sir Archibald Lawrie, Early Scottish Charters Prior to A.D. 1153, (Glasgow, 1905), no. 74, p. 63.
  2. ↑ loc. cit.
  3. ↑ John Dowden, The Bishops of Scotland, ed. J. Maitland Thomson, (Glasgow, 1912), p. 209.

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Religious titles
Preceded by
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 Bishop of Ross
fl. 1127 x 1131		Succeeded by


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