Abbot of Tongland
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The Abbot of Tongland was the head of the Premonstratensian (originally Cistercian) monastic community of Tongland Abbey
in Dumfries and Galloway
. The following is a list of abbots and commendators:
Tongland Abbey
Tungland or Tongland Abbey was a Premonstratensian monastic community located in Galloway. It was probably founded in 1218 by Alan, Lord of Galloway, although the church of Tongland had previously been granted to Dercongal Abbey by his grandfather Uchtred in the early 1160s. Few of its early abbots...
in 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...
. The following is a list of abbots and commendators:
List of abbots
- Helias, 1209x1222
- Alexander, 1273-1296
- Walter, 1332-1347
- Gilbert, 1381
- Gilbert de Gamdia, 1439
- Gilbert MacDowell, 1458
- Patrick MacChaquhirky (or MacCathroge), 1458-x 1473
- William Douglas, 1473 x 1476-1479
- Thomas Livingston, 1479-1481
- William Wylie, x 1481
- Andrew Muirhead, 1481 -1483
- Damian de FalcutiisJohn DamianJohn Damian was an Italian clergyman at the court of James IV of Scotland. His attempts at medicine, alchemy, flying, and his advancement by the King encouraged a satirical attack by the poet William Dunbar....
, 1504-1509
List of commendators
- David ArnotDavid ArnotDavid Arnot O. S. A. was a 16th century Scottish Augustinian abbot and bishop. He was from the Arnot family of Arnot, Fife.-Archdeacon of Lothian:...
, 1509-1526 - William Stewart, 1529-1531
- Henry WemyssHenry WemyssHenry Wemyss was a prelate from the 16th century Kingdom of Scotland. He appears in the sources in the bishopric of Galloway for the first time in 1517, and rose to become Bishop of Galloway in 1526, a position he held until his death in 1541....
, 1530-1541 - Andrew Dury, 1541-1558
- Alexander GordonAlexander Gordon (archbishop)Alexander Gordon was a 16th century archbishop of Glasgow, bishop of Sodor and bishop of Galloway. He was the brother of George Gordon, 4th Earl of Huntly, the ex-Chancellor of Scotland. He acquired his first ecclesiastic appointment, as Postulate of Caithness, despite competition with Robert...
, 1559-1575 - Archibald Crawford, 1564
- John Gordon, 1576-1586
- Roger Gordon, 1578
- George Gordon, 1586-1588
- William Melville, 1588-1615