Simon of Dunblane

Simon
Bishop of Dunblane
Church Roman Catholic Church
See Diocese of Dunblane
In office 1168 × 11781195 × 1198
Predecessor Laurence
Successor Jonathan
Orders
Consecration unknown
Personal details
Born unknown
unknown
Died 1194 × 1198

Simon (d. 1194 × 1198) is the third known 12th century Bishop of Dunblane. Nothing is known of Simon's background as there are numerous Simons in Scotland in this period, both native and foreign. There is a Symon de Liberatione who witnessed a charter of King William the Lion and whom Watt and Murray suggested may have been the later Bishop of Dunblane,[1] while there was in the same decade a local landholder and ecclesiastical patron in the diocese of Dunblane called Simón son of Mac Bethad.[2]

Simon's name occurs as Bishop of Dunblane alongside Simon de Tosny, Bishop of Moray, and Hugh, Bishop of St Andrews, in a charter dated to 1178, though Watt and Murray believed at this stage he was only bishop-elect.[3] This is because two unnamed Scottish bishops were consecrated at the Third Lateran Council in March 1179, and candidates for these bishops are otherwise short in supply.[4]

He witnessed a charter of King William to Arbroath Abbey datable between 1178 and September 1184.[5] He witnessed a charter of Melrose Abbey datable to between 1180 and 1198.[6] He issued his own charter to Arbroath Abbey between 1189 and 1196, in which he gave certain rights pertaining to the church of Abernethy to the abbey.[7] His issued a charter around 1190 granting the church of Inchaffray to "Isaac and his successors", Isaac being one of the pre-Augustinian monks.[8]

His last appearance is as a witness to a charter of Gille Brigte, Mormaer of Strathearn, to what became Inchaffray Abbey, dated to either 1194 or 1195.[9] His successor Jonathan appears as Bishop in an Arbroath document which must have been issued between 1194 and March 1198.[10]

Notes

  1. Barrow (ed.), Acts of William I, p. 228; Watt & Murray, Fasti Ecclesiae, p. 99.
  2. Fraser (ed.), Registrum monasterii S. Marie, pp. 313-4.
  3. Bruce (ed.), Liber Cartarum Prioratus, p. 147; Dowden, Bishops, p. 194; Watt & Murray, Fasti Ecclesiae, p. 99.
  4. Watt & Murray, Fasti Ecclesiae, p. 99.
  5. Barrow (ed.), Acts of William I, p. 253.
  6. Dowden, Bishops, p. 194.
  7. Cockburn, Medieval Bishops, p. 29.
  8. Lindsay & Thomson (eds.), Charters of Inchaffray, p. 1; Cockburn, Medieval Bishops, p. 29; Neville, 'Native Lordship, p. 169.
  9. Lindsay & Thomson (eds.), Charters of Inchaffray, pp. 1-2; Neville, Native Lordship, p. 132 gives 1194.
  10. Lindsay & Thomson (eds.), Charters of Inchaffray, p. 1; Watt & Murray, Fasti Ecclesiae, p. 99.

References

Religious titles
Preceded by
Laurence
Bishop of Dunblane
1168 × 11781194 × 1198
Succeeded by
Jonathan
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