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available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Bricius
(sometimes anglicized as Brice, died 1222) was prior of Lesmahagow and
afterwards bishop of Moray. In this period, the name Bricius is more
often a Latinization of the Gaelic names Máel Brigte ("tonsured devotee
of St. Brigit") and Gilla Brigte ("devotee of St. Brigit") than a real
name, although it is still possible that Bricius was indeed the bishop's
real name. He is called Bricius Douglas by David Wilkins's Concilia
magnae Britanniae et Hiberniae, and this is supported by two men who
used this name, "Arkenbald and Henric" (Archibald and Henry), being
called his brothers. Bricius appears to have been a son of William de
Dufglas, and had five brothers, four of whom also became clerics, all in
the Moray diocese. The fifth and presumably eldest brother, Archibald of
Douglas, succeeded to the Barony of Douglas in Lanarkshire. Bricius
became bishop of Moray in 1203, although the exact details of this
accession (i.e. election, consecration, etc.) are unknown. On April 7,
1206, Bishop Bricius received papal permission to move the seat (Latin:
cathedra) of the see of Moray from Birnie to Spynie.
