The Abbot of Scone, before 1163 x 4, Prior of Scone, and then by the beginning of the 16th century, the Commendator of Scone, was the head of the community of Augustinian

Augustinians

The term Augustinians, named after Saint Augustine of Hippo , applies to two separate and unrelated types of Catholic religious orders:...

 canons

Canon (priest)

A canon is a priest or minister who is a member of certain bodies of the Christian clergy subject to an ecclesiastical rule ....

 of Scone Abbey

Scone Abbey

Scone Abbey was a house of Augustinian canons based at Scone, Perthshire , Scotland. Varying dates for the foundation have been given, but it was certainly founded between 1114 and 1122....

 and their lands. The priory was established by King Alaxandair mac Maíl Choluim

Alexander I of Scotland

Alexander I , also called Alaxandair mac Maíl Coluim and nicknamed "The Fierce", was King of the Scots from 1107 to his death.-Life:...

 (Alexander I) sometime between 1114 and 1120, and was elevated to the status of an abbey in 1163 or 1164. The abbey was turned into a secular lordship for William Ruthven, 1st Earl of Gowrie

William Ruthven, 1st Earl of Gowrie

William Ruthven, 1st Earl of Gowrie , known as The Lord Ruthven between 1566 and 1581, was a son of Patrick Ruthven, 3rd Lord Ruthven.-Life account:...

 in 1581, but was forfeited when the earl was executed in 1584, given to William Foularton in the same year, but restored to the earl's son, James Ruthven, 2nd Earl of Gowrie. An independent secular lordship was established for David Murray

David Murray, 1st Viscount of Stormont

David Murray, 1st Viscount of Stormont was a Scottish courtier, comptroller of Scotland and captain of the king's guard, known as Sir David Murray of Gospertie, then Lord Scone, and afterwards Viscount Stormont...

 in 1608.

List of priors of Scone

• Robert (I)
  Robert of Scone
  Robert of Scone was a 12th century bishop of Cell Rígmonaid . Robert's exact origins are unclear. He was an Augustinian canon at the Priory of St. Oswalds, at Nostell...
  
  , 1114 x 1120-1127
• Nicholas, 1127-1140
• Dionysius, 1140 - 1142 x 1147
• Thomas, 1150-1154
• Isaac, 1154-1162
• Robert (II), 1162

List of abbots of Scone

• Robert (II), 1163x1164-1186
• Robert (III), 1186-1198
• Reimbald, 1198-1206
• William, 1206 x 1209-1225
• Robert (IV), 1227
• Philip, 1230-1242
• Robert (V), 1240-1270
• Nicholas, 1270-1273 x
• William, 1273 x 1284
• Hugh, x 1284-1287
• Thomas de Balmerino, 1291-1312
• Henry Man, 1303-1320
• Simon, 1325-1341
• Adam de Crail, 1343-1344
• William, 1354-1370 x 1391
• Alexander, 1370 x 1391-1412 x 1417
• Alexander de Balbirnie, 1412 x 1417-x1418
• Adam de Crannach (Aberdeen), 1418-1432
• John de Inverkeithing, 1432
• William de Skurry, 1435-1439
• James Kennedy, 1439-1447
• George Gardiner, 1445-1447
• Thomas de Camera, 1447-1458
• John Crambe, 1465-1491
• David Lermonth, 1492-1496
• Henry Abercrombie, 1492
• James Abercrombie, 1492-1514

List of commendators

• Alexander Stewart de Pitcairne, 1518-1537
• Patrick Hepburn, 1538-1571
• William Lord Ruthven
  William Ruthven, 1st Earl of Gowrie
  William Ruthven, 1st Earl of Gowrie , known as The Lord Ruthven between 1566 and 1581, was a son of Patrick Ruthven, 3rd Lord Ruthven.-Life account:...
  
  , 1571
• John Ruthven, 1580
• William Ruthven, 1st Earl of Gowrie
  William Ruthven, 1st Earl of Gowrie
  William Ruthven, 1st Earl of Gowrie , known as The Lord Ruthven between 1566 and 1581, was a son of Patrick Ruthven, 3rd Lord Ruthven.-Life account:...
  
  , 1581-1584
• William Foularton, 1584
• James Ruthven, 2nd Earl of Gowrie, 1587-1588
• John Ruthven, 3rd Earl of Gowrie
  John Ruthven, 3rd Earl of Gowrie
  John Ruthven, 3rd Earl of Gowrie was a Scottish nobleman, the second son of William Ruthven, 1st Earl of Gowrie and his wife Dorothea Stewart...
  
  , 1592-1600
• David Murray (later Lord Scone and Viscount Stormont), 1608

See also

• Viscount Stormont
• Stone of Scone
  Stone of Scone
  The Stone of Scone , also known as the Stone of Destiny and often referred to in England as The Coronation Stone, is an oblong block of red sandstone, used for centuries in the coronation of the monarchs of Scotland and later the monarchs of England, Great Britain and the United Kingdom...