David the Scot (died c. 1138) was a

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cleric who was

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from 1120 to 1138. There is some doubt as to David's nationality, as he is variously described as Welsh or Irish. Many Irish men living outside Ireland at this time had the designation Scottus, which originally denoted an Irishman, not a Scottish person. He was master of the cathedral school of

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before 1110 - resting place of Irish missionary St. Kilian and St. Kilian's Abbey, Würzburg - and in that year accompanied the Emperor

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to Italy. He wrote an account of this expedition. He was elected Bishop of Bangor, at the instigation of

Gruffudd ap Cynan Gruffudd ap Cynan ( 1137), sometimes written as Gruffydd ap Cynan, was King of Gwynedd from 1081 until his death in 1137. In the course of a long and eventful life, he became a key figure in Welsh resistance to Norman rule, and was remembe ...

, king of

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, in 1120. The previous bishop,

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, had been expelled from his see by the Welsh, and deadlock between Gruffudd and the king of England concerning the choice of a new bishop had resulted in the

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being vacant for around twenty years. Gruffudd threatened to get the new Bishop consecrated in

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, but eventually King

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agreed to the appointment of David to the see on condition that he accepted the supremacy of Canterbury. David was consecrated by

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on 4 April 1120 at

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. David was responsible for the rebuilding of

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, the earliest surviving parts of which date to his episcopate. In this he was aided by a large grant of money from Gruffudd ap Cynan. David is last recorded in attendance at the deathbed of Gruffudd ap Cynan in 1137. It is thought that he may have returned to

as a monk shortly before his death.

References

John Edward Lloyd Sir John Edward Lloyd (5 May 1861 – 20 June 1947) was a Welsh historian, He was the author of the first serious history of the country's formative years, ''A History of Wales from the Earliest Times to the Edwardian Conquest'' (1911). Ano ...

(1911) ''The history of Wales from the earliest times to the Edwardian conquest'' (Longmans, Green & Co.)

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Notes on David at www.british-history.ac.uk
{{DEFAULTSORT:Scot, David the 1138 deaths Bishops of Bangor 12th-century Irish Roman Catholic priests 12th-century English Roman Catholic bishops Medieval Gaels Irish writers 12th-century travel writers Irish travel writers Year of birth unknown Medieval Scottish clergy

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