John of Whithorn
John of Whithorn (died 1209) was the 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 3 September 1189.[1] He was consecrated at Pipewell Abbey, Northamptonshire, on Sunday 17 September 1189.[2]
The consecration was performed by the 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 John 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 believed to have become a canon at Holyrood Abbey in 1206.[6] The Chronicle of Melrose reported his death under the year 1209.[7]
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.
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 Scoticanae Medii Aevi ad annum 1638, 2nd Draft, (St Andrews, 1969)
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- Gille Aldan
- Christian of Whithorn
- John of Whithorn
- Walter of Whithorn
- Gilbert of Glenluce
- Odo Ydonc§
- Henry of Holyrood
- Thomas de Kirkcudbright
- Simon de Wedale
- Michael MacKenlagh
- Thomas MacDowell§
- Adam de Lanark
- Oswald of Glenluce§
- Ingram de Ketenis§
- Thomas de Rossy
- Elisaeus Adougan
- Gilbert Cavan§
- Thomas de Buittle
- Alexander Vaus
- Thomas Spens
- Thomas Vaus§
- Ninian Spot
- George Vaus
- James Beaton
- David Arnot
- Henry Wemyss
- Andrew Durie
- Alexander Gordon
- Post-Reformation bishops of Galloway, 1560–1689
- Alexander Gordon
- John Gordon
- Roger Gordon§
- George Gordon
- Vacant (1588–1605)§
- Gavin Hamilton
- William Couper
- Andrew Lamb
- Thomas Sydserf
- Vacant (1638–1661)§
- James Hamilton
- John Paterson
- Arthur Rose
- James Aitken
- John Gordon
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