Thomas de Rossy (bishop of the Isles)

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.[1] At this stage, the papal sources name him as a canon of Dunkeld Cathedral.[2]

Thomas de Rossy
Bishop of Mann and the Isles
ChurchRoman Catholic Church
SeeDiocese of Mann and the Isles
In office1331–1348
PredecessorBernard
SuccessorWilliam Russell
Orders
ConsecrationJune 7 x June 10, 1331
Personal details
Bornunknown
Scotland
DiedSeptember 20, 1348
Unknown
Previous postCanon of Dunkeld

Probably while at the papal curia, he was consecrated at some point between June 7 and June 10, 1331.[3] 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".[4] 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.[5]

According to the Chronicle, after an episcopate of eighteen years, he died on September 20, 1348, and was buried at Scone.[6]

Notes
  1. Watt & Murray, Fasti Ecclesiae, p. 262.
  2. Dowden, Bishops, p. 282; Watt & Murray, Fasti Ecclesiae, p. 262.
  3. Watt & Murray, Fasti Ecclesiae, p. 262.
  4. Munch & Goss, Chronica regum Manniae, vol. i ; see also Dowden, Bishops, p. 282.
  5. Watt & Murray, Fasti Ecclesiae, p. 262.
  6. Dowden, Bishops, p. 282; Munch & Goss, Chronica regum Manniae, vol. i ; Watt & Murray, Fasti Ecclesiae, p. 262.

References
  • Dowden, John (1912), Thomson, John Maitland (ed.), The Bishops of Scotland : Being Notes on the Lives of All the Bishops, under Each of the Sees, Prior to the Reformation, Glasgow: James Maclehose and Sons
  • Munch, Peter Andreas; Goss, Alexander, eds. (1988), Chronica regum Manniae et Insularum: The Chronicle of Man and the Sudreys from the Manuscript Codex in the British Museum, with Historical Notes, i (Rev. ed.), Douglas: Manx Society
  • Watt, D. E. R.; Murray, A. L., eds. (2003), Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae Medii Aevi ad annum 1638, The Scottish Record Society, New Series, Volume 25 (Revised ed.), Edinburgh: The Scottish Record Society, ISBN 0-902054-19-8, ISSN 0143-9448
Religious titles
Preceded by
Bernard		 Bishop of the Isles
1331–1348		 Succeeded by
William Russell
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