{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2025}} {{Use British English|date=November 2016}} '''Fothad II''' was the [[bishop]] of St Andrews (1059–1093) for most of the reign of King [[Malcolm III of Scotland|Máel Coluim III mac Donnchada]] (reigned 1058–1093). Alternative spellings include ''Fodhoch'', ''Fothach'' and ''Foderoch'', and ''Fothawch'' (by [[Andrew of Wyntoun]]). A "Modach filius Malmykel" is mentioned in a grant, dated 1093, as the bishop of S. Andrews. As this bishop is certainly Fothad II, his father was a man named Máel Míchéil.<ref>See Sir Archibald Lawrie, ''Early Scottish Charters Prior to A.D. 1153'', (Glasgow, 1905), s.v. XI, pp. 9–10, with notes on pp. 239–40; for details about the ''Registrum of the Priory of St. Andrews'', see John Bannerman, "MacDuff of Fife," in A. Grant & K.Stringer (eds.) ''Medieval Scotland: Crown, Lordship and Community, Essays Presented to G.W.S. Barrow'', (Edinburgh, 1993), pp. 20–38</ref>
According to [[Andrew of Wyntoun]], Fothad performed the marriage ceremony between King Máel Coluim and the woman who would be his second wife, [[Saint Margaret of Scotland|Margaret]].<ref>John Macqueen, Winifred MacQueen, & D.E.R. Watt, (eds.), ''Scottichronicon by Walter Bower in Latin and English'', Vol. 3, (Aberdeen, 1995), p. 463, n. 27.</ref> An early 12th-century cleric of [[York]] claimed that Fothad, on the instructions of Queen Margaret, had submitted to the [[Archbishop of York]],<ref>see Alan Orr Anderson, ''Scottish Annals from English Chroniclers: AD 500-1286'', (London, 1908), republished, Marjorie Anderson (ed.) (Stamford, 1991), p. 131, n. 2.</ref> although modern historians are usually inclined to doubt this.<ref>e.g. Marjorie Ogilvie Anderson, "St. Andrews before Alexander I", in G.W.S. Barrow (ed.), ''The Scottish Tradition'', (Edinburgh, 1994), p. 4.</ref>
He was influential enough for his death in 1093 to be noticed by the ''[[Annals of Ulster]]'', which calls him "Fothud ardepscop Alban" (i.e. "Fothad, High Bishop [Archbishop?] of Scotland").<ref>AU 1093.2, [http://www.ucc.ie/celt/published/G100001A/text664.html text] & [http://www.ucc.ie/celt/published/T100001A/text663.html English translation]; see also Alan Orr Anderson, ''Early Sources of Scottish History: AD 500-1286'', 2 Vols, (Edinburgh, 1922), vol. ii., p. 49</ref>
His immediate successor, according to the bishop list of [[Walter Bower]], was Giric;<ref>MacQueen ''et al.'', ''op. cit.'', p. 345.</ref> but the next consecrated bishop we know about from other sources is Turgot. The obvious question is, did the bishopric really lie vacant for a decade and a half, did Bower or his source invent Giric, or did Giric actually succeed? The former options hardly seem probable in the context.
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==References== *[[Alan Orr Anderson|Anderson, Alan Orr]], ''Early Sources of Scottish History: AD 500-1286'', 2 Vols, (Edinburgh, 1922) *Anderson, Alan Orr, ''Scottish Annals from English Chroniclers: AD 500-1286'', (London, 1908), republished, Marjorie Anderson (ed.) (Stamford, 1991) *[[Marjorie Ogilvie Anderson|Anderson, Marjorie Ogilvie]], "St. Andrews before Alexander I", in G.W.S. Barrow (ed.), ''The Scottish Tradition'', (Edinburgh, 1994), pp. 1–13 *[[John Bannerman (historian)|Bannerman, John]], "MacDuff of Fife," in A. Grant & K.Stringer (eds.) ''Medieval Scotland: Crown, Lordship and Community, Essays Presented to G.W.S. Barrow'', (Edinburgh, 1993), pp. 20–38 *[[G.W.S. Barrow|Barrow, G.W.S]]., "The Clergy of St. Andrews", in ''The Kingdom of the Scots'', 2nd Ed., (Edinburgh, 2003), pp. 187–202 *[[Archibald Lawrie|Lawrie, Sir Archibald]], ''Early Scottish Charters Prior to A.D. 1153'', (Glasgow, 1905) *MacQueen, John, MacQueen, Winifred & Watt, D.E.R. (eds.), ''Scottichronicon by Walter Bower in Latin and English'', Vol. 3, (Aberdeen, 1995)
==External links== *[http://www.ucc.ie/celt/published/G100001A/text664.html Annals of Ulster s.a. 1093] **[http://www.ucc.ie/celt/published/T100001A/text663.html English Translation]
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