M. de Dunblan

M. de Dunblan is the way the first known Bishop of Dunblane is written in a copy of a papal bull of Pope Adrian IV preserved in England; the bull dates to 1155.^[1]

The papal bull was addressed to the bishops of Scotland ordering them to submit to the metropolitan authority of the Archbishop of York; the copyist made two other mistakes in the initials of bishops, so it is not totally reliable.^[2]

Cockburn speculated that M. might stand for Máel Ísu;^[3] it is very unlikely that M. was a mistake for La., standing for Laurence the successor of M. at Dunblane.^[4]

Notes

^ Cockburn, Medieval Bishops, p. 6; Dowden, Bishops, p. 193; Watt & Murray, Fasti Ecclesiae, p. 99.
^ Cockburn, Medieval Bishops, p. 6; Dowden, Bishops, p. 193.
^ Cockburn, Medieval Bishops, p. 6
^ Dowden, Bishops, p. 193, n. 1.

References

Cockburn, James Hutchison, The Medieval Bishops of Dunblane and Their Church, (Edinburgh, 1959)
Dowden, John, The Bishops of Scotland, ed. J. Maitland Thomson, (Glasgow, 1912)
Watt, D. E. R., & Murray, A. L., Fasti Ecclesiae Scotinanae Medii Aevi ad annum 1638, Revised Edition, (Edinburgh, 2003)

Religious titles
Preceded by -	Bishop of Dunblane 1155 × 1161–1165 × 1178	Succeeded by Laurence

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[1] Cockburn, Medieval Bishops, p. 6; Dowden, Bishops, p. 193; Watt & Murray, Fasti Ecclesiae, p. 99.

[2] Cockburn, Medieval Bishops, p. 6; Dowden, Bishops, p. 193.

[3] Cockburn, Medieval Bishops, p. 6

[4] Dowden, Bishops, p. 193, n. 1.

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