John of Whithorn
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John (d. 1209) was a medieval Bishop of Galloway. His first appearance as bishop-elect is at the coronation of Richard, Cœur de Lion as King of the English at Westminster Abbey on September 3, 1189.[1] He was consecrated at Pipewell Abbey, Northamptonshire, on Sunday September 17, 1189.[2]
The consecration was performed by Archbishop of Dublin, the Archbishop of Trier, and the Bishop of Annaghdown, and took place despite the fact that there was a formal vacancy in the Archbishopric of York; Geoffrey Plantagenet was Archbishop-elect of York at the time, and John in fact ordained him as a priest, despite the opposition of the Archbishop of Canterbury, who wished to use the opportunity to force York to make obedience to Canterbury as Primate.[3]
During his ten year episcopate he appeared often in England as a suffragan of the Archbishop of York, for instance, accompanying the archbishop to a church council held by King Richard in 1191.[4] In Scotland, he witnessed one charter of Alan of Galloway and was appointed a judge-delegate by the papacy in a patronage-related dispute in the diocese of Glasgow.[5] He was said to have become a canon at Holyrood Abbey in 1206.[6] The Chronicle of Melrose reported his death under the year 1209.[7]
[edit] Notes
- ^ Oram, Lordship of Galloway, p. 180; Watt, Fasti Ecclesiae, p. 128.
- ^ Dowden, Bishops, p. 355; Watt, Fasti Ecclesiae, p. 128.
- ^ Dowden, Bishops, p. 355; Oram, Lordship of Galloway, p. 180.
- ^ Oram, Lordship of Galloway, p. 181.
- ^ Dowden, Bishops, p. 355.
- ^ Dowden, Bishops, p. 355; Watt, Fasti Ecclesiae, p. 128; source reported by Watt is Chron. Bower, i. 520.
- ^ Watt, Fasti Ecclesiae, p. 128.
[edit] References
- Dowden, John, The Bishops of Scotland, ed. J. Maitland Thomson, (Glasgow, 1912)
- Keith, Robert, An Historical Catalogue of the Scottish Bishops: Down to the Year 1688, (London, 1924)
- Oram, Richard, The Lordship of Galloway, (Edinburgh, 2000)
- Watt, D. E. R., Fasti Ecclesiae Scotinanae Medii Aevi ad annum 1638, 2nd Draft, (St Andrews, 1969)
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Bishop of Galloway 1189–1209 |
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