John (2)
John is the name of several early Scotch prelates:
1. Consecrated bishop of the see of Glasgow in 1115. Some time after he made a visit to the Holy Land. He rebuilt and adorned the cathedral church, and consecrated it in July, 1136; divided the diocese into two archdeaconries of Glasgow and Teviotdale, set up the offices of dean, subdean, chancellor, treasurer, sacrist, chantor, and succentor, and settled a prebend upon each of them out of the donations he had received from the king. He was witness to a charter of St. David's to the monastery of Newbottle in 1140. He died May 28, 1147. See Keith, Scottish Bishops, page 232.
2. A monk of Sais, in Normandy, and bishop of the see of the Isles about 1151. See Keith, Scottish Bishops, page 297.
3. Consecrated (with Hugh) bishop of St. Andrews in 1178. See Keith, Scottish Bishops, page 12.
4. Bishop of Caithness in 1185, and witness to king William in a donation to the abbey of Kinloss, at the time when Hugo was chancellor of the kingdom. See Keith, Scottish Bishops, page 206.
5. Bishop of Galloway in 1189. He became a monk of Holyrood House in 1206, and died in 1209. See Keith, Scottish Bishops, page 272.
6. Bishop of Aberdeen about 1200, and such in 1201. He died in 1207. See Keith, Scottish Bishops, page 105.
7. Probably bishop of the Isles in 1226. See Keith, Scottish Bishops, page 299.
8. Bishop of Dunkeld in 1356, and was still such in 1365. See Keith, Scottish Bishops, page 84.
9. Probably bishop of the Isles about 1388. See Keith, Scottish Bishops, page 304.
10. Bishop of Ross in 1420, and witness in the same year to a resignation made by William Graham of his barony of Kerdale into the hands of Thomas, earl of Moray. See Keith, Scottish Bishops, page 189.
11. Bishop of the Isles about 1490, and privy-councillor to king James IV, from whom he received the abbacy of Icolumkill in 1507. See Keith, Scottish Bishops, page 305.
12. Bishop of Argyle in 1499. See Keith, Scottish Bishops, page 288.
13. Joannes Electus Sodoren, sat in the Parliament in 1524. See Keith, Scottish Bishops, page 306.
