- Gilbert de Greenlaw
infobox bishopbiog
name = Gilbert de Greenlaw
religion=Roman Catholic Church
See =Diocese of Aberdeen
Title =Bishop of Aberdeen
Period = 1390–1421
consecration = 1390
Predecessor =Adam de Tyningham
Successor =Henry de Lichton
post = | ordination =
bishops = Bishop-elect of St Andrews
date of birth = 1354
place of birth = North-eastScotland .
date of death = 1421
place of death = ProbablyAberdeen Gilbert de Greenlaw (1354 – 1421) was a medieval
Bishop of Aberdeen and Bishop-elect of St. Andrews. He was aLicentiate in theArts , and had been a canon of Bishopric of Moray by the late 1370s, before being provided byAvignon Pope Clement VII the church ofListon in the Bishopric of St. Andrews in 1379. By the later 1380s, he was in thediocese of Aberdeen . In 1389, he was elected to hold the bishopric of Aberdeen, a position to which he was consecrated in 1390. Gilbert subsequently went on to hold the position ofChancellor of Scotland for many years, albeit in an interrupted manner. Gilbert was subsequently postulated to the more prestigious bishopric ofSt. Andrews after the untimely death ofWalter de Danyelston , its previous Bishop-elect. However,Avignon Pope Benedict XIII quashed the postulation, and choseHenry Wardlaw in his stead. Gilbert, then, remained Bishop of Aberdeen, and died in 1421.References=
*Dowden, John, "The Bishops of Scotland", ed. J. Maitland Thomson, (Glasgow, 1912)
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