Abbot of Sweetheart
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The Abbot of Sweetheart was the head of the Cistercian monastic community of Sweetheart Abbey
, Dumfries and Galloway
, founded by monks from Dundrennan Abbey
with the patronage of Derbhfhorghaill inghean Ailein (aka "Dervorguilla Balliol"), Lady of Galloway, about 1275. The following are a list of abbots and commendators.
Sweetheart Abbey
Sweetheart Abbey , south of Dumfries, near to the Nith in south-west Scotland, was a Cistercian monastery, founded in 1275 by Dervorguilla of Galloway, daughter of Alan, Lord of Galloway, in memory of her husband John de Balliol...
, Dumfries and Galloway
Dumfries and Galloway
Dumfries and Galloway is one of 32 unitary council areas of Scotland. It was one of the nine administrative 'regions' of mainland Scotland created in 1975 by the Local Government etc. Act 1973...
, founded by monks from Dundrennan Abbey
Dundrennan Abbey
Dundrennan Abbey, in Dundrennan, Scotland, near to Kirkcudbright, was a Cistercian monastery in the Romanesque architectural style, established in 1142 by Fergus of Galloway, King David I of Scotland , and monks from Rievaulx Abbey....
with the patronage of Derbhfhorghaill inghean Ailein (aka "Dervorguilla Balliol"), Lady of Galloway, about 1275. The following are a list of abbots and commendators.
List of abbots
- John, 1280 x 1290 - 1296
- Thomas, 1356 - 1404
- John, c.1409
- William Greenlaw, 1448 -1463
- Alexander Tyningham, 1486
- James Ruche, 1486
- Robert Greenlaw, 1515
- Herbert Browne, 1523 - 1530
- Richard Brown, 1530-1532
- Robert Arnot, 1532
- Herbert, 1538
- John Brown, 1538 - 1565
List of abbot-commendators
- Gilbert Brown, 1565
- William Leslie, 1586
- Robert Maxwell, x 1612
- Robert Spottiswood, 1612 -1624