Michael of Glasgow is the earliest known bishop of Glasgow of the 12th century. Records of his episcopate do not survive from the records of the Kingdom of Scotland

Kingdom of Scotland

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, however a bishop and a bishop with the name Michael is recorded in foreign records. A letter of Ralph d'Escures

Ralph d'Escures

Ralph , also known as Ralph d'Escures from the family estate Escures, near Sées in Normandy, was a medieval Abbot of Séez, Bishop of Rochester and then Archbishop of Canterbury. He studied at the school at the Abbey of Bec. In 1079 he entered the abbey of St Martin at Séez, and became abbot there...

, Archbishop of Canterbury

Archbishop of Canterbury

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 (1114–22), to Pope Calixtus II, records that Thomas

Thomas II of York

Thomas was a medieval archbishop of York. To distinguish him from his uncle, also a Thomas who was archbishop of York, Thomas is usually known as Thomas II or Thomas the Younger.-Life:...

, Archbishop of York

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The Archbishop of York is a high-ranking cleric in the Church of England, second only to the Archbishop of Canterbury. He is the diocesan bishop of the Diocese of York and metropolitan of the Province of York, which covers the northern portion of England as well as the Isle of Man...

 (1109–14), had ordained a bishop for the see

Episcopal See

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 of the "Britons of Glasgow". The bishop here is not named. However, Thomas Stubs, a historian writing in the second half of the 14th century, tells us that Archbishop Thomas had ordained a man called Michael at the request of David

David I of Scotland

David I or Dabíd mac Maíl Choluim was a 12th-century ruler who was Prince of the Cumbrians and later King of the Scots...

, then Prince of the Cumbrians

Kingdom of Strathclyde

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. Stubs informs us that Michael had dedicated churches in the diocese of York. According to Stubs, Michael was buried in the Morlund church, Westmorland

Westmorland

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. It is possible that Michael was merely a nominal bishop, like the nominal York-appointed bishops of Orkney

Bishop of Orkney

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, whose main duties consisted of assisting the Archbishop of York in day-to-day duties.