predecessor successor death_date consecration birth_place title type see term birth_date article_title name church
m. simon 1165 × 1178 unknown unknown bishop of dunblane bishop diocese of dunblane 1155 × 1161 & ndash ; 1165 × 1178 unknown laurence of dunblane
 laurentius roman catholic church
laurence of dunblane

laurence laurentius is the first bishop of dunblane to be known by name .
a document dating to 27 february 1155 , had an `` m. de dunblan '' , but no more is known of this man and it is unlikely that `` m. '' is a mistake for `` la. '' .
`` laurentius episcopo de dunblain '' appears as a witness to a charter of king máel coluim iv of scotland , a charter granted from perth to the church of st john the baptist of perth in 1161 .
his next appearance occurs witnessing a charter of richard , bishop of st andrews , sometime between 1165 and 1169 .
a charter which bishop laurence himself issued to cambuskenneth abbey has survived ; it dates to some time between 1165 and 1171 , and granted the church of tullibody to that monastic house .
the grant had followed -lrb- i.e. was a confirmation of -rrb- an earlier grant from the local landowner , simón son of mac bethad , and was only to take effect after the death of the rector , the royal clerk hugh de roxburgh .
this is the last notice of bishop laurence ; he may have been bishop until 1178 at the latest , when his successor simon appears in the sources for the first time .
