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
Church	Roman Catholic Church
See	Diocese of Mann and the Isles
In office	1331–1348
Predecessor	Bernard
Successor	William Russell
Previous post(s)	Canon of Dunkeld
Orders
Consecration	7 June x 10 June 1331
Personal details
Born	Unknown Scotland
Died	20 September 1348 Unknown

Probably while at the papal curia, he was consecrated at some point between 7 and 10 June 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 20 September 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. Vol. 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