Columba de Dunbar was Bishop of Moray from 1422 until his death at the fortified seat of the Bishops of Moray, that is situated where?
Grid Ref NJ 230658
Title: Columba de Dunbar
Passage: Columba de Dunbar ( 1386 – 1435) was Bishop of Moray from 1422 until his death at Spynie Palace near Elgin sometime before 7 November 1435.
Title: Bishop of Moray
Passage: The Bishop of Moray or Bishop of Elgin was the ecclesiastical head of the Diocese of Moray in northern Scotland, one of Scotland's 13 medieval bishoprics.  If the foundation charter of the monastery at Scone is reliable, then the Bishopric of Moray was in existence as early as the reign of King Alexander I of Scotland (1107–1124), but was certainly in existence by 1127, when one Gregoir ("Gregorius") is mentioned as "Bishop of Moray" in a charter of king David I of Scotland.  The bishopric had its seat (Latin: "Cathedra" ) at Elgin and Elgin Cathedral, but was severally at Birnie, Kinneddar and as late as Bishop Andreas de Moravia at Spynie, where the bishops continued to maintain a palace.  The Bishopric's links with Rome ceased to exist after the Scottish Reformation, but continued, saving temporary abolition between 1638 and 1661, under the episcopal Church of Scotland until the Revolution of 1688.  Episcopacy in the established church in Scotland was permanently abolished in 1689.  The Bishops fortified seat for over 500 years was at Spynie Palace.
Title: Spynie Palace
Passage: Spynie Palace, also known as Spynie Castle, was the fortified seat of the Bishops of Moray for about 500 years.  The founding of the palace dates back to the late 12th Century.  It is situated at Grid Ref NJ 230658, about 500m from the location of the first officially settled Cathedral Church of the Diocese of Moray, in present-day Spynie Churchyard.  For most of its occupied history, the castle was not described as a "palace" — this term first appeared in the Registry of Moray in a writ of 1524.
Columba de Dunbar Spynie Palace