Máel Ísu II of Cennrígmonaid

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Máel Ísu II is the sixth alleged Bishop of Cennrígmonaid, equivalent to later day St. Andrews. He is mentioned in the bishop-lists of the 15th century historians Walter Bower and Andrew of Wyntoun as the successor of Cellach II.<ref>John Macqueen, Winifred MacQueen, & D.E.R. Watt, (eds.), Scottichronicon by Walter Bower in Latin and English, Vol. 3, (Aberdeen, 1995), pp. 344-5, 463, where the translators wrongly translate his name, given in the Latin as Malisius, as "Maelbrigde"; see also, Andrew of Wyntoun, The Original Chronicle, line 1494, which calls him "secund Malice", available online here</ref> We have no direct dates for Máel Ísu II's episcopate, but the indirect evidence for his predecessors suggests that he was bishop in the later 10th and/or early 11th century.<ref>see articles on Fothad I, Máel Ísu I, Cellach II and Máel Muire.</ref>