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. His background is unclear, perhaps coming from a burgess family of Stirling; he emerges in 1228 as the newly elected

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had turned down his own election in order to become

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, the latter made by Donnchadh, Earl of Mar. He also settled a dispute with the

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in 1239.

References

* Dowden, John, ''The Bishops of Scotland'', ed. J. Maitland Thomson, (Glasgow, 1912), p. 103 * Innes, Cosmo, ''Registrum Episcopatus Aberdonensis: Ecclesie Cathedralis Aberdonensis Regesta Que Extant in Unum Collecta'', Vol. 1, (Edinburgh, 1845), p. xxii-iii * Keith, Robert, ''An Historical Catalogue of the Scottish Bishops: Down to the Year 1688'', (London, 1924), pp. 106–7 * Watt, D.E.R., ''Fasti Ecclesiae Scotinanae Medii Aevi ad annum 1638'', 2nd Draft, (St Andrews, 1969), p. 1 {{DEFAULTSORT:Stirling, Gilbert de 1239 deaths Bishops of Aberdeen People from Stirling 13th-century Scottish Roman Catholic bishops Year of birth unknown