Giric, if he is the ''Gregorius'' of

Walter Bower Walter Bower (or Bowmaker; 24 December 1449) was a Scottish canon regular and abbot of Inchcolm Abbey in the Firth of Forth, who is noted as a chronicler of his era. He was born about 1385 at Haddington, East Lothian, in the Kingdom of Scot ...

, is the eleventh alleged

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. This ''Gregorius'' is mentioned in the bishop-list of

as the successor of Bishop Fothad II. Bower's most recent editors commented that "there is no evidence to prove that any bishop of St Andrews was consecrated between 1093 and 1109". In the late 1990s, the

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historian Dauvit Broun, by looking through the manuscripts afresh, recovered the previously unknown last 20% of Version-A of the ''St. Andrews Foundation Legend'', a text composed at the turn of the 11th and 12th centuries. In it, a few of the contemporary church's leading men are named, and one of these is "Archbishop Giric".''ibid.'', pp. 111-113 It is known that Turgot of Durham was elected to the bishopric in 1107, and so Giric may have been in office anytime between 1093, the death-date of his predecessor, and 1107. Bower's list has Giric as one of four bishops who died as "bishops-elect" between the episcopates of Fothad II and Turgot. The other "bishops-elect" were men called Cathróe,

Eadmer Eadmer or Edmer ( – ) was an English historian, theologian, and ecclesiastic. He is known for being a contemporary biographer of his archbishop and companion, Saint Anselm, in his ''Vita Anselmi'', and for his ''Historia novorum in ...

and Godric.

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References

*Broun, Dauvit, "Recovering the Full Text of Version A of the Foundation Legend", in Simon Taylor (ed.) ''Kings, Clerics and Chronicles in Scotland, 500–1297'', (Dublin, 2000), pp. 108–14 *Dumville, David N., "St Cathróe of Metz and the Hagiography of Exoticism," in ''Irish Hagiography: Saints and Scholars'', ed. John Carey et al. (Dublin, 2001), pp. 172–188 *MacQueen, John, MacQueen, Winifred & Watt, D.E.R. (eds.), ''Scottichronicon by Walter Bower in Latin and English'', Vol. 3, (Aberdeen, 1995) {{DEFAULTSORT:Giric 11th-century births 12th-century deaths Bishops of St Andrews Medieval Gaels from Scotland 11th-century Scottish Roman Catholic bishops 12th-century Scottish Roman Catholic bishops