Turgot of Durham
Thorgaut or Turgot (sometimes, Thurgot) was Archdeacon and Prior of Durham, and the first English or Anglo-Norman Bishop of Saint Andrews (then called Cell Ríghmonaidh or Kilrymont).
Fleeing the Normans, Turgot became the teacher of Olaf Kyrre in Norway for a time before returning to be made prior of the Benedictine convent of Durham Cathedral, and he may have been the confessor of Margaret of Wessex, the second wife of Máel Coluim mac Donnchada, king of the Scots, and hence probably known to King Alexander I and Earl David (later David I) since childhood. Turgot may have been the author of the Vita Sancte Margarete, the hagiographical life of the queen, which was written for Matilda of Scotland[1].
According to Symeon of Durham, he was elected to the Bishopric in 1107. Two years later, he was consecrated by Thomas II, Archbishop of York. Turgot died at Durham on 31 August 1115.
[edit] Notes
- ^ "The Life Of St Margaret, Queen Of Scotland". http://mw.mcmaster.ca/scriptorium/margaret.html. Retrieved 14 March 2011.
[edit] References
- Dowden, John, The Bishops of Scotland, ed. J. Maitland Thomson, (Glasgow, 1912), pp. 1–3
- Dawson, Christopher, "Religion and the Rise of Western Culture", (Doubleday, 1950), pp. 100
- Veitch, Kenneth, "Replanting Paradise: Alexander I and the Reform of Religious Life in Scotland", in The Innes Review, 52, (Autumn, 2001), pp. 136–166
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| Preceded by Giric or Cathróe |
Bishop of Cell Rígmonaid (Saint Andrews) 1107–1115 |
Succeeded by Eadmer |
