Thurgot

For the French economist and statesmen, see Anne Robert Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune.

Turgot (or Thurgot) was the first "Norman" Bishop of Saint Andrews (then called Cell Rígmonaid, and Kilrymont by Scoto-Normans). He had previously been the Prior of the Benedictine convent of Durham Cathedral, and was probably the confessor of Margaret, the Anglo-Saxon second wife of Máel Coluim III of Scotland, and hence probably known to King Alexander I and Prince David of the Cumbrians (later David I) since childhood. It was Turgot who wrote the Vita Sancte Margarete, the hagiographical life of the queen. According to Symeon of Durham, he was elected to the Bishopric in 1107. Two years later, he was consecrated by Thomas II, Archbishop of York. Turgot died at Durham on 31 August 1115.

[edit] References

Dowden, John, The Bishops of Scotland, ed. J. Maitland Thomson, (Glasgow, 1912), pp. 1-3
Veitch, Kenneth, "Replanting Paradise: Alexander I and the Reform of Religious Life in Scotland," in The Innes Review, 52, (Autumn,2001), pp. 136–166

Religious Posts
Preceded by: Giric or Cathróe	Bishop of Cell Rígmonaid (Saint Andrews) 1107-1115	Succeeded by: Eadmer