Abbot of Arbroath
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Arbroath Abbey
Arbroath Abbey, in the Scottish town of Arbroath, was founded in 1178 by King William the Lion for a group of Tironensian Benedictine monks from Kelso Abbey. It was consecrated in 1197 with a dedication to the deceased Saint Thomas Becket, whom the king had met at the English court...
, Angus
Angus
Angus is one of the 32 local government council areas of Scotland, a registration county and a lieutenancy area. The council area borders Aberdeenshire, Perth and Kinross and Dundee City...
, Scotland
Scotland
Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...
, founded under the patronage of King William of Scotland
William I of Scotland
William the Lion , sometimes styled William I, also known by the nickname Garbh, "the Rough", reigned as King of the Scots from 1165 to 1214...
from Kelso Abbey
Kelso Abbey
Kelso Abbey is what remains of a Scottish abbey founded in the 12th century by a community of Tironensian monks first brought to Scotland in the reign of Alexander I. It occupies ground overlooking the confluence of the Tweed and Teviot waters, the site of what was once the Royal Burgh of Roxburgh...
and dedicated to St Thomas of Canterbury
Thomas Becket
Thomas Becket was Archbishop of Canterbury from 1162 until his murder in 1170. He is venerated as a saint and martyr by both the Roman Catholic Church and the Anglican Communion...
. The abbot, John Gedy, was granted the mitre
Mitre
The mitre , also spelled miter, is a type of headwear now known as the traditional, ceremonial head-dress of bishops and certain abbots in the Roman Catholic Church, as well as in the Anglican Communion, some Lutheran churches, and also bishops and certain other clergy in the Eastern Orthodox...
on 26 June 1396. Arbroath Abbey became the wealthiest and most powerful abbey in later medieval Scotland
Scotland
Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...
. The following is a list of abbots and commendators:
- Reginald, 1178-1179
- Henry, 1179-1207
- Gilbert, 1208-1219 x 1229
- Radulf de LamleyRadulf de LamleyRadulf de Lamley [Ralph, Ranulf, Randalph de Lambley] was a 13th century monk and cleric. Radulf's youth is obscure, and it is not until the 1220s that he emerges in the sources as a Tironensian monk, now Abbot of Arbroath...
, 1225-1239 - Adam, 1240-1246
- Walter, 1247-1258 x
- Robert, 1261-1267
- Sabinus, 1267 ?
- John, 1268-1270
- WilliamWilliam (Abbot of Arbroath & Bishop of Dunblane)William O. Tiron. was a late 13th century Tironensian abbot and bishop in the Kingdom of Scotland. He appears in the extant sources for the first time on April 25, 1276; he is Abbot of Arbroath...
, 1276-1284 - Henry, 1285-1296
- NicholasNicholas of ArbroathNicholas O. Tiron , Abbot of Arbroath and Bishop of Dunblane, was a late 13th century and early 14th century churchman in the Kingdom of Scotland...
, 1296 x 99-1301 - John de Anegus, 1303-1309
- BernardBernard of KilwinningBernard was a Tironensian abbot, administrator and bishop active in late 13th- and early 14th-century Scotland, during the First War of Scottish Independence...
, 1310-1328 - Geoffrey, 1329-1347
- William, 1348-1366
- John, 1370-1384
- John Gedy, 1384-1410
- Walter Paniter, 1410-1449
- Robert Bowmaker, 1419
- Richard Guthrie, 1449-1455
- Malcolm Brydy, 1456-1470
- Richard Guthrie, 1470-1472
- Hugh Douglas, 1470
- Francis Gonzaga, 1472
- Alexander Scrymgeour, 1472
- Patrick Graham, 1473-1476
- George Boyce, 1472-1482
- William Bonkil, 1482-1484
- David Lichton, 1484-1503
- James StewartJames Stewart, Duke of RossJames Stewart, Duke of Ross was the son of King James III of Scotland and Margaret of Denmark.-Titles and Offices:He was made Marquess of Ormond at his baptism...
, 1503-1504 - George HepburnGeorge HepburnGeorge Hepburn was the son of Adam Hepburn and brother to Patrick Hepburn, the first Earl of Bothwell.He was a churchman, and served firstly as postulate Abbot of Arbroath, before becoming Lord High Treasurer of Scotland for a brief spell in 1509...
, 1504-1513 - Gavin DouglasGavin DouglasGavin Douglas was a Scottish bishop, makar and translator. Although he had an important political career, it is for his poetry that he is now chiefly remembered. His principal pioneering achievement was the Eneados, a full and faithful vernacular translation of the Aeneid of Virgil and the first...
, 1514 - Andrew FormanAndrew FormanAndrew Forman was a Scottish diplomat and prelate who became Bishop of Moray in 1501, Archbishop of Bourges in France, in 1513, Archbishop of St Andrews in 1514 as well as the headship of several monasteries....
, 1514 - James StewartJames Stewart, 1st Earl of MorayJames Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray , a member of the House of Stewart as the illegitimate son of King James V, was Regent of Scotland for his nephew, the infant King James VI of Scotland, from 1567 until his assassination in 1570...
, 1514-1517 - Peter de Accoltis, 1517
- James BeatonJames BeatonDr. James Beaton was a Scottish church leader, the uncle of Dr. David Cardinal Beaton and the Keeper of the Great Seal of Scotland....
, 1517-1523 x 1524 - David BeatonDavid BeatonThe Most Rev. Dr. David Cardinal Beaton was Archbishop of St Andrews and the last Scottish Cardinal prior to the Reformation.-Career:...
, 1524-1545 - James Beaton II, 1545-1551
- George DouglasGeorge Douglas (bishop)George Douglas was a late medieval Scottish nobleman and prelate. A son of Archibald Douglas, 6th Earl of Angus, he was elected by the chapter of the diocese of Moray by 22 December 1573 several months after the death of Patrick Hepburn, the previous Bishop of Moray. He held the bishopric for 16...
, 1546 - John, Lord HamiltonJohn Hamilton, 1st Marquess of HamiltonJohn Hamilton, 1st Marquess of Hamilton was a Scottish nobleman.-Life:Hamilton was the third son of James Hamilton, 2nd Earl of Arran by his wife Margaret Douglas, a daughter of James Douglas, 3rd Earl of Morton...
1551-1568 - George Douglas, (again) 1568-1572, elevated to Bishop of MorayBishop of MorayThe 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...
- John, Lord Hamilton (again), 1573-1579
- Esmé StuartEsmé Stewart, 1st Duke of LennoxEsmé Stewart, 1st Duke of Lennox, 1st Earl of Lennox was the son of John Stewart, 5th Lord of Aubigny who was the younger brother of Matthew Stewart, 4th Earl of Lennox...
, 1579-1583