Thomas de Rossy was a fourteenth-century Scottish

Kingdom of Scotland

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 prelate

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. He appears in the historical record for the first time in 1331, when Pope John XXII

Pope John XXII

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 provided him to succeed Bernard

Bernard of Kilwinning

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 as Bishop of the Isles

Bishop of the Isles

The Bishop of the Isles or Bishop of Sodor was the ecclesiastical head of the Diocese of Sodor, one of Scotland's thirteen medieval bishoprics. The bishopric, encompasing both the Hebrides and Mann, probably traces its origins as an ecclesiastical unity to the careers of Olaf, King of the Isles,...

. At this stage, the papal sources name him as a canon

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 of Dunkeld Cathedral

Dunkeld Cathedral

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Probably while at the papal curia, he was consecrated at some point between June 7 and June 10, 1331. The Chronicles of Mann states that Thomas de Rossy "was the first to exact from the churches of Mann twenty shilling

Shilling

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s for visitation dues", and that "he was also the first who exacted from the parochial

Parish church

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 rector

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s the tithe

Tithe

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s received by them from strangers engaged in the herring

Herring

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 fishery". His surname is known from a papal record dating to 1346, a record concerning the future of a benefice

Benefice

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 Thomas held before he was promoted to episcopal status.

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

Scone, Scotland

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