Mac Bethad (
fl. 1127 x 1131) is the first recorded
High Medieval Bishop of Ross, a
See then located at
Rosemarkie
Rosemarkie ( sco, Rossmartnie, from gd, Ros Mhaircnidh meaning "promontory of the horse stream") is a village on the south coast of the Black Isle peninsula in Ross-shire ( Ross and Cromarty), northern Scotland.
Geography
Rosemarkie lies a qu ...
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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
David I or Dauíd mac Maíl Choluim ( Modern: ''Daibhidh I mac haoilChaluim''; – 24 May 1153) was a 12th-century ruler who was Prince of the Cumbrians from 1113 to 1124 and later King of Scotland from 1124 to 1153. The youngest son of Mal ...
to the Church of
Dunfermline, confirming the previous rights of that church.
The charter is dated by its modern editor to 1128, but is more safely dated to the period between the years 1127 and 1131.
[John Dowden, ''The Bishops of Scotland'', ed. J. Maitland Thomson, (Glasgow, 1912), p. 209.]
Notes
References
*Dowden, John, ''The Bishops of Scotland'', ed. J. Maitland Thomson, (Glasgow, 1912)
*Lawrie, Sir Archibald, ''Early Scottish Charters Prior to A.D. 1153'', (Glasgow, 1905)
External links
Dauvit Broun's list of 12th century Scottish Bishops
11th-century births
12th-century deaths
Bishops of Ross (Scotland)
Medieval Gaels from Scotland
12th-century Scottish Roman Catholic bishops
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