was elected as Bishop of Dunblane; on 10 September 1403, Fionnlagh was provided to the bishopric by the Pope directly, the election being illegal due - so it was claimed - to earlier papal reservation of the see. His unattested consecration, which was probably performed at the papal see, had certainly occurred by 28 April 1404. At that date he is found back in Scotland as a full bishop attending a church council at Linlithgow. His activities and whereabouts as Bishop of Dunblane are not well attested. In 1404 the Pope mandated Fionnlagh as well as Henry de Wardlaw, Bishop of St Andrews, and Robert de Cardeny, the Bishop of Dunkeld, to preach a crusade against the Turks. He was at Dunblane on 29 November 1406, witnessing a charter of the Duke of Albany; he is next found on 18 July 1408, at a church council of the church held at Perth, and then again on 28 October that year witnessing another charter of the Duke of Albany. In 1411 Bishop Fionnlagh and two others were authorised by the papacy to use the income from the vacant diocese of Argyll to repair Lismore Cathedral, the seat of that bishopric. He is mentioned in a papal mandate issued to John, Abbot of Balmerino on 1 June 1414; John was a papal nuncio and collector in Scotland, and the mandate ordered him to offer his oath of fealty to the papacy through Bishop Fionnlagh; it is of note that Abbot John had once served as Fionnlagh's proctor at the papal curia. The resignation of the earldom of Ross by Euphemia II, Countess of Ross, to the Duke of Albany on 12 June 1415 (probably at Stirling) was witnessed by Bishop Fionnlagh. He is found again on 17 March 1416 at a general council of the church held at Perth. He is last known to have been alive on 25 March 1419 but was dead by 30 October when a papal mandate ordered the translation of William Stephani, Bishop of Orkney, to the now vacant see of Dunblane. The chronicler Walter Bower, writing a few decades after Fionnlagh's death, claimed that Bishop Fionnlagh was responsible for the building of a bridge over the river Allan at Dunblane. Notes References Barrow, G. W. S., "The Lost Gàidhealtachd", in Scotland and Its Neighbours in the Middle Ages, (London, 1992), pp. 105–26 Boardman, Stephen, The Campbells,