Thomas de Rossy (died 1348) was a fourteenth-century Scottish prelate. He appears in the historical record for the first time in 1331, when Pope John XXII provided him to succeed Bernard as Bishop of the Isles.Watt & Murray, Fasti Ecclesiae, p. 262. At this stage, the papal sources name him as a canon of Dunkeld Cathedral.Dowden, Bishops, p. 282; Watt & Murray, Fasti Ecclesiae, p. 262.
Probably while at the papal curia, he was consecrated at some point between 7 and 10 June 1331.Watt & Murray, Fasti Ecclesiae, p. 262. The Chronicles of Mann states that Thomas de Rossy "was the first to exact from the churches of Mann twenty shillings for visitation dues", and that "he was also the first who exacted from the parochial rectors the tithes received by them from strangers engaged in the herring fishery".Munch & Goss, Chronica regum Manniae, vol. i ; see also Dowden, Bishops, p. 282. His surname is known from a papal record dating to 1346, a record concerning the future of a benefice Thomas held before he was promoted to episcopal status.Watt & Murray, Fasti Ecclesiae, p. 262.
According to the Chronicle, after an episcopate of eighteen years, he died on 20 September 1348 and was buried at Scone.Dowden, Bishops, p. 282; Munch & Goss, Chronica regum Manniae, vol. i ; Watt & Murray, Fasti Ecclesiae, p. 262.
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