Gilbert de Greenlaw

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Gilbert de Greenlaw

Denomination	Roman Catholic Church
Senior posting
See	Diocese of Aberdeen
Title	Bishop of Aberdeen
Period in office	1390–1421
Consecration	1390
Predecessor	Adam de Tyningham
Successor	Henry de Lichton
Previous bishoprics	Bishop-elect of St Andrews
Personal
Date of birth	1354
Place of birth	North-east Scotland.
Date of death	1421
Place of death	Probably Aberdeen

Gilbert de Greenlaw († 1421) was a medieval Bishop of Aberdeen and Bishop-elect of St. Andrews. He was a Licentiate in the Arts, and had been a canon of Bishopric of Moray by the late 1370s, before being provided by Avignon Pope Clement VII the church of Liston in the Bishopric of St. Andrews in 1379. By the later 1380s, he was in the diocese of Aberdeen. In 1389, he was elected to hold the bishopric of Aberdeen, a position to which he was consecrated in 1390. Gilbert subsequently went on to hold the position of Chancellor of Scotland for many years, albeit in an interrupted manner. Gilbert was subsequently postulated to the more prestigious bishopric of St. Andrews after the untimely death of Walter de Danyelston, its previous Bishop-elect. However, Avignon Pope Benedict XIII quashed the postulation, and chose Henry Wardlaw in his stead. Gilbert, then, remained Bishop of Aberdeen, and died in 1421.

[edit] Reference

• Dowden, John, The Bishops of Scotland, ed. J. Maitland Thomson, (Glasgow, 1912)

Religious Posts
Preceded by Adam de Tynyngham	Bishop of Aberdeen 1389/90–1422	Succeeded by Henry de Lychtone
Preceded by Walter de Danyelston (unconsecrated)	Bishop of St. Andrews post. 1402–3 (overturned by Pope)	Succeeded by Henry Wardlaw