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Gilbert I, Prior of St Andrews

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Gilbert I
Born12th century
Diedc. 1198
OccupationAugustinian prior
TitlePrior of St Andrews

Gilbert (died c. 1198) was a 12th-century Augustinian canon. Active in Scotland, he may have been of Anglo-Norman origin.

Gilbert was a canon of St Andrews Cathedral Priory when he became prior of St Andrews in either 1196 or 1197, succeeding Prior Walter who had resigned because of ill-health.[1] Walter Bower, in his list of St Andrews priors in the Scotichronicon, says that Gilbert held office for two years of "busy activity" before falling ill at the priory's manor in Clackmannan, dying there soon after.[2]

His death probably fell in either late 1198 or early 1199.[1] Afterwards Prior Walter resumed his old office (though he himself died within the year).[3] Walter's time as prior coincided with the episcopate of Roger de Beaumont.[4]

Catholic Church titles
Preceded by Prior of St Andrews
1196x1197–1198x1199
Succeeded by

Notes

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  1. ^ a b Watt and Shead, Heads of Religious Houses, p. 187
  2. ^ MacQueen, MacQueen and Watt, Scotichronicon, vol. 3, p. 417; Watt and Shead, Heads of Religious Houses, p. 187
  3. ^ MacQueen, MacQueen and Watt, Scotichronicon, vol. 3, pp. 417, 495; Watt and Shead, Heads of Religious Houses, p. 187
  4. ^ Watt and Murray, Fasti Ecclesiae, p. 379

References

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  • MacQueen, John; MacQueen, Winifred; Watt, D. E. R., eds. (1995), Scotichronicon by Walter Bower, in Latin and English: Volume 3, Books V and VI, Scotichronicon by Walter Bower: New Edition in Latin and English with Notes and Indexes (General Editor D. E. R. Watt), Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, ISBN 1-873644-49-3
  • Watt, D. E. R.; Murray, A. L., eds. (2003), Fasti Ecclesiae Scotinanae 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
  • Watt, D. E. R.; Shead, N. F., eds. (2001), The Heads of Religious Houses in Scotland from Twelfth to Sixteenth Centuries, The Scottish Record Society, New Series, Volume 24 (Revised ed.), Edinburgh: The Scottish Record Society, ISBN 0-902054-18-X, ISSN 0143-9448