Fothad II of Cennrígmonaid

Fothad II of Cennrígmonaid

Fothad II, Bishop of Cennrígmonaid was the bishop of Cennrígmonaid, (1059–1093) equivalent to modern St. Andrews, for most of the reign of King Máel Coluim III mac Donnchada (1058–1093). Alternative spellings include "Fodhoch", "Fothach" and "Foderoch", and "Fothawch" (by Andrew of Wyntoun). A "Modach filius Malmykel" is mentioned in a grant, dated 1093, as the bishop of St. Andrews. The text is from the "Registrum of the Priory of St. Andrews", and is a later translation from Gaelic. This bishop is certainly the same as Fothad II, which means Fothad's father was a man named Máel Míchéil. [See Sir Archibald Lawrie, "Early Scottish Charters Prior to A.D. 1153", (Glasgow, 1905), s.v. XI, pp. 9-10, with notes on pp. 239-40; for details about the "Registrum of the Priory of St. Andrews", see John Bannerman, "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]

According to Andrew of Wyntoun, Fothad performed the marriage ceremony between King Máel Coluim and the woman who would be his second wife, Margaret. [John Macqueen, Winifred MacQueen, & D.E.R. Watt, (eds.), "Scottichronicon by Walter Bower in Latin and English", Vol. 3, (Aberdeen, 1995), p. 463, n. 27.] An early 12th century archdeacon of York claimed that Fothad, on the instructions of Queen Margaret, had submitted to the Archbishop of York, [see Alan Orr Anderson, "Scottish Annals from English Chroniclers: AD 500-1286", (London, 1908), republished, Marjorie Anderson (ed.) (Stamford, 1991), p. 131, n. 2.] although modern historians are usually inclined to doubt this. [e.g. Marjorie Ogilvie Anderson, "St. Andrews before Alexander I, in G.W.S. Barrow (ed.), "The Scottish Tradition", (Edinburgh, 1994), p. 4.]

He was influential enough for his death in 1093 to be noticed by the "Annals of Ulster", which calls him "Fothud ardepscop Alban" (i.e. "Fothad, High Bishop [Archbishop?] of Scotland"). [AU 1093.2, [http://www.ucc.ie/celt/published/G100001A/text664.html text] & [http://www.ucc.ie/celt/published/T100001A/text663.html English translation] ; see also Alan Orr Anderson, "Early Sources of Scottish History: AD 500-1286", 2 Vols, (Edinburgh, 1922), vol. ii., p. 49]

His immediate successor, according to the bishop list of Walter Bower, was Giric; [MacQueen "et al.", "op. cit.", p. 345.] but the next consecrated bishop we know about from other sources is Turgot. The obvious question is, did the bishopric really lie vacant for a decade and a half, did Bower or his source invent Giric, or did Giric actually succeed? The former options hardly seem probable in the context.

Notes

References

*Anderson, Alan Orr, "Early Sources of Scottish History: AD 500-1286", 2 Vols, (Edinburgh, 1922)
*Anderson, Alan Orr, "Scottish Annals from English Chroniclers: AD 500-1286", (London, 1908), republished, Marjorie Anderson (ed.) (Stamford, 1991)
*Anderson, Marjorie Ogilvie, "St. Andrews before Alexander I, in G.W.S. Barrow (ed.), "The Scottish Tradition", (Edinburgh, 1994), pp. 1-13
*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
*Barrow, G.W.S., "The Clergy of St. Andrews", in "The Kingdom of the Scots", 2nd Ed., (Edinburgh, 2003), pp. 187-202
*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)

External links

* [http://www.ucc.ie/celt/published/G100001A/text664.html Annals of Ulster s.a. 1093]
** [http://www.ucc.ie/celt/published/T100001A/text663.html English Translation]


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