The Prior of May then Prior of Pittenweem (later Commendator of Pittenweem) was the religious superior of the Benedictine monks of Isle of May Priory

Isle of May Priory

The Isle of May Priory was a community of Benedictine monks established for 9 monks of Reading Abbey on the Isle of May in the Firth of Forth. It had been founded by 1153, under the patronage of David I of Scotland...

, which later moved to the mainland became called Pittenweem Priory

Pittenweem Priory

Pittenweem Priory is the name of an Augustinian priory located at the village of Pittenweem, Fife, Scotland. It was originally a Benedictine abbey founded from Reading Abbey and based on the Isle of May...

. The priory was originally based on the Isle of May

Isle of May

The Isle of May is located in the north of the outer Firth of Forth, approximately off the coast of mainland Scotland. It is 1.8 km long and less than half a kilometre wide...

, but was moved by 1318 to its nearby mainland site of Pittenweem

Pittenweem

Pittenweem is a small and secluded fishing village and civil parish tucked in the corner of Fife on the east coast of Scotland. According to the 2006 estimate, the village has a population of 1,600. At the 2001 census, the parish had a population of 1,747....

, Fife

Fife

Fife is a council area and former county of Scotland. It is situated between the Firth of Tay and the Firth of Forth, with inland boundaries to Perth and Kinross and Clackmannanshire...

, passing from the overlordship of Reading Abbey

Reading Abbey

Reading Abbey is a large, ruined abbey in the centre of the town of Reading, in the English county of Berkshire. It was founded by Henry I in 1121 "for the salvation of my soul, and the souls of King William, my father, and of King William, my brother, and Queen Maud, my wife, and all my ancestors...

 (Benedictine) to St Andrews Cathedral Priory

St Andrews Cathedral Priory

St Andrews Cathedral Priory was a priory of Augustinian canons in St Andrews, Fife, Scotland. Plans were made for its foundation in the reign of Alaxandair mac Maíl Choluim , who set aside some land for that purpose. It was finally established by King David I and his son in 1140 with canons from...

 (Augustinian). The following is a list of priors and commendators:

List of priors

• Achard, 1141x1150
• Robert, 1161 x 1162-1165 x 1166
• William, 1166x1171
• Hugh de Mortimer, 1198–1205
• John, 1206–1215
• Richard, 1221–1222
• Radulf, 1233
• John, 1248-1251
• William, 1251 x 1260
• Hugh, 1260–1269
• William de Gloucester, 1269–1270
• Thomas de Houburn, x 1306
• Jordan, 1309
• Martin, 1313–1318
• Adam de Pilmor, 1345
• Robert de Anderston, c. 1380
• Robert de Leuchars, 1405
• William Nory, 1402–1408; 1409-1419 x 1421
• James de Haldeston, 1407-1418
• John Litstar, 1418
• Thomas de Camera (Chalmers), 1419 x 1421-1447
• William Stury, 1421
• James Kennedy, 1447-1465
• Walter Monypenny, 1465-1467
  • John Woodman
    John Woodman
    John Woodman [Wodman] was a 15th century churchman based in the Kingdom of Scotland. Woodman was a canon of the diocese of St Andrews, and as such was locally made Prior of Pittenweem on the death of the previous prior, James Kennedy, Bishop of St Andrews; however, he was opposed by one Walter...
    
    , 1465-1477
• Patrick Graham, 1466-1478
• Walter Davidson, 1477–1479, 1489
• Thomas Kymner, 1486
• William Scheves
  William Scheves
  William Scheves was the second Archbishop of St. Andrews. In his earlier ecclesiastical career, he had been clericus regiae and Master of the hospital of Brechin. In 1474 he was provided unsuccessful to the Archdeaconry of Dunblane, but by the beginning of 1477 he was Archdeacon of St Andrews...
  
  , 1487-1497

List of commendators

• Andrew Forman
  Andrew Forman
  Andrew 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....
  
  , 1495-1515 x 1521
• Robert Forman, 1516–1526
• John Roul, 1525–1553
• Adam Blackadder, 1531
• John de Moncreif, 1550–1551
• James Stewart
  James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray
  James 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...
  
  , 1550-1567
• Sir James Balfour of Pittendreich, 1567–1573
• James Haliburton, 1575–1583
• William Stewart of Houston
  William Stewart of Houston
  Sir William Stewart of Houston was a Scottish soldier, politician and diplomat.-Life:He began his career as a soldier in the Netherlands, where he became a colonel and entered into communications with Lord Burghley on the progress of affairs. In the year 1582 he was in Scotland, where James VI...
  
  , 1583-1603 x 1605