Abbot of Dunfermline

The prior and later abbot, from 1500 finally Commendator Dunfermline was the chairman of the monastic community in Dunfermline Abbey, near Fife. The abbey itself was probably founded in 1128 during the reign of David I of his later canonized wife Margareta. But previously there had been church life. So Malcolm III had. can build a church with the help of Benedictine monks from Canterbury in Dunfermline. During the reign of Edgar monks were in the region and his successor, Alexander I was asked in a letter to protection for these monks. The first mentioned prior of Dunfermline is a man named Peter, who accompanied a delegation of around 1120 Alexander I to Canterbury. In the 16th century the abbey was secularized and passed from that date by one Commendator. In the second half of the 16th century, the land of the abbey was annexed by and by secular lords. In July 1593 finally took the crown of the abbey.

List the head of Dunfermline Abbey

Below is a list of known head of Dunfermline Abbey, sorted chronologically and according to official title.

Priore

  • Peter, 1120

Abbots

  • Geoffrey of Canterbury (1128-1154)
  • Geoffrey II (1154-1178)
  • Archibald (1178-1198)
  • Robert de Berwick (1198-1202)
  • Patrick ( 1202-1217/1223 )
  • William I. ( 1223 )
  • William II (1223/1226-1238)
  • Geoffrey III. (1238-1240)
  • Robert de Keldeleth (1240-1252), he resigned from his post and entered a Cistercian monastery and later became Abbot of Melrose
  • John (1252-1256)
  • Matthew ( 1256)
  • Simon (1267-1275)
  • Radulf de Greenlaw (1275-1296)
  • Hugh (1304/1306-1313)
  • Robert de Crail (1314-1328)
  • Alexander Ber ( 1328/9-1350/1351 )
  • John Black ( 1351 )
  • John de Stramiglot ( 1351-1383/1388 )
  • William de Angus ( 1383 )
  • John de Torry (1388-1409)
  • William de St Andrews (or: Anderston ) ( 1413-1426 ), was previously Prior of Urquhart
  • Robert de Scotland (1418-1419)
  • William Brown ( 1427)
  • Andrew de Kirkcaldy (1427-1444)
  • Richard de Bothwell (1444-1468), previously Abbot of Paisley
  • Alexander Thomson ( 1470 )
  • Henry Crichton (1471-1482), previously Abbot of Paisley
  • Adam Cant (1483-1490)
  • George Crichton (1490-1500), after the death of several people claimed the office of the abbot and Crichton received until 1469 his papal confirmation Raffaele Riario (1491-1492), rival candidate George Crichton
  • Robert Swinton ( 1492), rival candidate George Crichton
  • Thomas Cranston ( 1492), rival candidate George Crichton; was also Abbot of Jedburgh
  • Andrew Pictoris ( 1492), rival candidate George Crichton; was also Bishop of Orkney

Commendatory

  • James Stewart, Duke of Ross (1500-1504), son of King James. III
  • Gilbert Strachan ( 1504)
  • James Beaton (1504-1509), was elected in 1508 to the Bishop of Galloway, retained the position of abbot but until his appointment as Archbishop of Glasgow 1509
  • Alexander Stewart (1509-1513), was appointed Commendatore while he was Archbishop of St Andrews
  • James Hepburn (1513-1516), resigned when he was appointed Bishop of Moray
  • Peter de Accolti ( 1514)
  • Andrew Forman (1514-1521), held the Board at the same time with the Archdiocese of St Andrews
  • James Beaton II (1522-1539), took over the board when he took over the Archdiocese of St Andrews by Andrew Forman
  • George Durie ( 1526/39-1572 )
  • Robert Pitcairn ( 1553/72-1584 )
  • Henry Pitcairn ( 1582/4-1593 ) Patrick, Master of Gray (1585-1587), rival candidate Henry Pitcairn
  • George Gordon, 1st Marquess of Huntly ( 1587 ), rival candidate Henry Pitcairn
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