Gilbert de Greenlaw (1354–1421) was a medieval

Bishop of Aberdeen The Bishop of Aberdeen (originally Bishop of Mortlach, in Latin Murthlacum) was the ecclesiastical head of the Diocese of Aberdeen, one of Scotland's 13 medieval bishoprics, whose first recorded bishop is an early 12th-century cleric named Nec ...

and Bishop-elect of St. Andrews. He was a Licentiate in the

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, and had been a

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of Bishopric of Moray by the late 1370s, before being provided by

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the church of Liston in the Bishopric of St. Andrews in 1379. By the later 1380s, he was in the

diocese of Aberdeen Diocese of Aberdeen was one of the 13 (14, after 1633) dioceses of the Scottish church, before the abolition of the episcopacy in 1689. Early history A see was founded in 1063 at Mortlach by Blessed Beyn. The earliest mention of the See of ...

. In 1389, he was elected to hold the bishopric of Aberdeen, a position to which he was consecrated in 1390. Gilbert subsequently went on to hold the position of Chancellor of Scotland for many years, albeit in an interrupted manner. Gilbert was subsequently postulated to the more prestigious bishopric of St. Andrews after the death of Walter de Danyelston, its previous Bishop-elect. However,

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quashed the postulation, and chose

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in his stead. Gilbert, then, remained Bishop of Aberdeen, and died in 1421.

References

*Dowden, John, ''The Bishops of Scotland'', ed. J. Maitland Thomson, (Glasgow, 1912) 1354 births 1421 deaths University of Paris alumni Bishops of Aberdeen Bishops of St Andrews Lord chancellors of Scotland 14th-century Scottish Roman Catholic bishops 15th-century Scottish Roman Catholic bishops Kingdom of Scotland expatriates in France {{Scotland-reli-bio-stub