Abbot of Holyrood

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The Abbot of Holyrood (later Commendator of Holyrood) was the head of the Augustinian monastic community of Holyrood Abbey, now in Edinburgh. The long history of the abbey came to a formal end in July 1606 when the parliament of Scotland turned the abbey into a secular lordship for the last commendator, John Bothwell (confirmed by charter in December 1607). The following is a list of abbots and commendators:

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List of abbots

• Alwin, 1128-1151
• Osbert, 1151
• William (I), 1152-1172
• John, 1173-1178x1184
• William (II), 1187x1189-1206
• Walter, 1210-1217 or 1218
• William (III), 1217 x 1218-1221
• William (IV) son of "Owin", 1221-1227
• Gilbert, 1236
• Elias son of Nicholas, 1227-1236 x 1253
• Henry, 1236 x 1253-1255
• Radulf, 1253x1256-1258
• Robert, 1273 x1279
• William de Haddington, 1285
• Adam, 1291-1299
• Elias, 1309-1320 or 1321
• Simon de Wedale, 1321-1327
• John de Cambusnethan, 1328-1339
• Bartholomew, 1342
• Thomas de St Andrews, ?1347-1370
• John, 1370-1378
• David Bell, 1379-1386
• John de Leith, 1386-71415x1420
• Henry de Dryden, 1420-1423
  • Walter Bower, 1420
• Patrick Witherspoon (Wotherspoon), 1423-1445
• William, 1425
• James Cameron, 1446-1450
• Archibald Crawford, 1450-1484
• Robert Ballantyne, 1484-1500
• James Stewart, 1498-1500
• George Crichton, 1500-1526
• William Douglas, 1526-1528
• Robert Cairncross, 1528-1538
• David Douglas, 1530-1531

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List of commendators

• Robert Stewart, 1539-1568
• Adam Bothwell, 1568-1582
• John Bothwell, 1582-1606

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Notes

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Bibliography

• Cowan, Ian B. & Easson, David E., Medieval Religious Houses: Scotland With an Appendix on the Houses in the Isle of Man, Second Edition, (London, 1976), pp. 90-1
• Watt, D.E.R. & Shead, N.F. (eds.), The Heads of Religious Houses in Scotland from the 12th to the 16th Centuries, The Scottish Records Society, New Series, Volume 24, (Edinburgh, 2001), pp. 92-6

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See also

• Holyrood Abbey

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