Thomas de Rossy (Bishop of the Isles)

infobox bishopbiog
name = Thomas de Rossy


religion= Roman Catholic Church
See = Diocese of Mann and the Isles
Title = Bishop of Mann and the Isles
Period = 1331–1348
consecration = June 7 x June 10, 1331
Predecessor = Bernard
Successor = William Russell
post = Canon of Dunkeld | ordination =
bishops =
date of birth = unknown
place of birth = Scotland
date of death = September 20, 1348
place of death = Unknown

Thomas de Rossy (died 1348) was a fourteenth-century Scottish prelate. He appears in the historical record for the first time in 1331, when Pope John XXII provided him to succeed Bernard as Bishop of the Isles. [Watt & Murray, "Fasti Ecclesiae", p. 262.] At this stage, the papal sources name him as a canon of Dunkeld Cathedral. [Dowden, "Bishops", p. 282; Watt & Murray, "Fasti Ecclesiae", p. 262.]

Probably while at the papal curia, he was consecrated at some point between June 7 and June 10, 1331. [Watt & Murray, "Fasti Ecclesiae", p. 262.] The "Chronicles of Mann" states that Thomas de Rossy "was the first to exact from the churches of Mann twenty shillings for visitation dues", and that "he was also the first who exacted from the parochial rectors the tithes received by them from strangers engaged in the herring fishery". [Munch & Goss, [http://www.isle-of-man.com/manxnotebook/manxsoc/msvol22/p101.htm "Chronica regum Manniae", vol. i ] ; see also Dowden, "Bishops", p. 282.] His surname is known from a papal record dating to 1346, a record concerning the future of a benefice Thomas held before he was promoted to episcopal status. [Watt & Murray, "Fasti Ecclesiae", p. 262.]

According to the "Chronicle", after an episcopate of eighteen years, he died on September 20, 1348, and was buried at Scone. [Dowden, "Bishops", p. 282; Munch & Goss, [http://www.isle-of-man.com/manxnotebook/manxsoc/msvol22/p101.htm "Chronica regum Manniae", vol. i ] ; Watt & Murray, "Fasti Ecclesiae", p. 262.]

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