Túathal is the ninth
Bishop of St Andrews
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. He is mentioned in the bishop-list of the later medieval historian
Walter Bower
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as the successor of Bishop
Máel Dúin. Túathal's name, like his immediate predecessor Máel Dúin's, is known from other sources. A charter preserved in the ''Registrum of the Priory of St. Andrews'', although probably translated into
Latin
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from
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at a later date, records a grant of the lands and church of
Scoonie by Bishop Túathal (Tuadal) of St. Andrews to the Céli Dé of
Loch Leven.
[Sir Archibald Lawrie, ''Early Scottish Charters Prior to A.D. 1153'', (Glasgow, 1905), charter no. VII., pp. 7, 234.] Bower says that Túathal ruled as bishop for four years; as his successor Máel Dúin is known to have died in 1055, this would put his episcopate at roughly between the years 1055/6 and 1059/60. Túathal's immediate successor was the famous Bishop
Fothad II.
Notes
References
*
Anderson, Alan Orr, ''Early Sources of Scottish History: AD 500–1286'', 2 Vols, (Edinburgh, 1922), vol. i
*
Bannerman, John, "MacDuff of Fife," in A. Grant & K.Stringer (eds.) ''Medieval Scotland: Crown, Lordship and Community, Essays Presented to G.W.S. Barrow'', (Edinburgh, 1993), pp. 20–38
*Lawrie, Sir Archibald, ''Early Scottish Charters Prior to A.D. 1153'', (Glasgow, 1905)
*MacQueen, John, MacQueen, Winifred &
Watt, D. E. R. (eds.), ''Scottichronicon by Walter Bower in Latin and English'', Vol. 3, (Aberdeen, 1995)
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