Mac Bethad of Rosemarkie

Mac Bethad (fl. 1127 x 1131) is the first recorded High Medieval Bishop of Ross, a See then located at Rosemarkie.

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 to the Church of Dunfermline, confirming the previous rights of that church.^[1]

The charter is dated by its modern editor to 1128,^[2] but is more safely dated to the period between the years 1127 and 1131.^[3]

Notes

↑ Sir Archibald Lawrie, Early Scottish Charters Prior to A.D. 1153, (Glasgow, 1905), no. 74, p. 63.
↑ loc. cit.
↑ John Dowden, The Bishops of Scotland, ed. J. Maitland Thomson, (Glasgow, 1912), p. 209.

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

Religious titles
Preceded by ?	Bishop of Ross fl. 1127 x 1131	Succeeded by Symeon

Bishops of Ross

Pre-Reformation Bishops of Ross Mac Bethad of Rosemarkie Symeon of Rosemarkie Gregoir of Rosemarkie Reinald Macer Andreas de Moravia§ Robert I Robert II Matthew Robert de Fyvie Adam de Darlington§ Thomas de Dundee Roger Alexander Stewart Alexander de Kylwos Alexander de Waghorn Thomas Lyell§ Gruffydd Young§ John Bullock Andrew Munro§ Thomas de Tulloch Henry Cockburn John Woodman William Elphinstone Thomas Hay John Guthrie John Fraser Robert Cockburn James Hay Robert Cairncross David Panter Henry Sinclair Post-Reformation Bishops of Ross Henry Sinclair John Lesley Alexander Hepburn David Lindsay Patrick Lindsay James Maxwell John Paterson Alexander Young James Ramsay

§ non-consecrated or titular bishops

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