Dunfermline Abbey drawn by John Slezer c.1690Dunfermline Abbey, circa 1919
The Prior, then Abbot and then Commendator of Dunfermline was the head of the Benedictine monastic community of Dunfermline Abbey, Fife, Scotland. The abbey itself was founded in 1128 by King David I of Scotland, but was of earlier origin. King Máel Coluim mac Donnchada ("Malcolm III") had founded a church there with the help of Benedictines from Canterbury. Monks had been sent there in the reign of Étgar mac Maíl Choluim (Edgar, 1097–1107) and Anselm had sent a letter requesting that Étgar's brother and successor King Alaxandair mac Maíl Coluim (Alexander I, 1107–1124) protect these monks. By 1120, when Alaxandair sent a delegation to Canterbury to secure Eadmer for the bishopric of St Andrews, there is a Prior of the Dunfermline monks by the name of Peter leading the delegation. Control of the abbey was secularized in the 16th century and after the accession of James Stewart in 1500, the abbey was held by commendators. In the second half of the 16th century, the abbey's lands were being carved up into lordships and it was finally annexed to the crown in July, 1593.
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The Prior, then Abbot and then Commendator ofDunfermline was the head of the Benedictine monastic community ofDunfermline Abbey, Fife, Scotland. The...
St Margaret. At its head was the AbbotofDunfermline, the first of which was Geoffrey of Canterbury, former Prior of Christ Church, Canterbury, the Kent...
miles (5 km) from the northern shore of the Firth of Forth. Dunfermline was the de facto capital of the Kingdom of Scotland between the 11th and 15th centuries...
the AbbotofDunfermline's representative informed him that he found the priory in need of much renovation; the consequence of nearly 60 years of neglect...
Bondington, Bishop of Glasgow 1233-1249: Sir William de Lindsay 1249–1250: Robert de Keldeleth, AbbotofDunfermline 1250-1253: Gamelin, Bishop of St Andrews...
be the first Abbot of Dunfermline. As abbot he presided over the construction of the new monastery building, the immigration of English monks and settlers...
Castle, and by 1382 was called Abbot's Hall, as it was the home of the AbbotofDunfermline. The present building is largely of the 16th century, though with...
Provost of the Collegiate Church of Bothwell. In 1504 he became Prior of Whithorn and AbbotofDunfermline and in 1505 was made Lord High Treasurer of Scotland...
Benedictine and then Cistercian abbot. He started his senior career as AbbotofDunfermline (1240–52), becoming Chancellor of Scotland later in the 1240s...
administration of the town and its fiscal policies; conditional on an annual payment of two and a half marks (33s 4d) to the AbbotofDunfermline. At the beginning...
high offices in church and state, becoming Commendator and the last AbbotofDunfermline before the Reformation. He also appeared in Parliament between 1540...
1577), abbotofDunfermline and archdeacon of St Andrews, son of John Durie of Durie in the county of Fife, and brother to Andrew Durie, bishop of Galloway...
1533/4 and had at the same time part of the lands of Kildun granted to them by George Durie the AbbotofDunfermline. He married secondly, Barbara Urquhart...
Abbot House may refer to: In Scotland Abbot House, Dunfermline, a heritage centre in Scotland In the United States (by state) Asa and Sylvester Abbot...
Pitcairn, AbbotofDunfermline John Hay, Abbotof Balmerino, Robert Richardson, Lord Treasurer Sir James Balfour, Justice Clerk James MacGill of Nether Rankeillour...
established as a stonemason's lodge. In 1531, the Abbotof Newbattle agreed with the AbbotofDunfermline to work his coalmine at Prestongrange so that it...
1433–1434 John Tenalay (Benally), 1445–1454 Became AbbotofDunfermline. Previously the titular Prior of Coldingham. Cowan, Ian B. & Easson, David E., Medieval...
to found a school as part of the wider operations ofDunfermline Abbey in the early 1120s. In 1468, the will of the Abbot Richard de Bothwell made provision...
cause of the defeat and attributed the order to move to the influence of local landowners George Durie, AbbotofDunfermline, and Hugh Rig of Carberry...
The tawse, sometimes formerly spelled taws (the plural of Scots taw, a thong of a whip) is an implement used for corporal punishment. It was used for educational...
of Dunkeld; as this was unsuccessful, Inglis resumed his position as Archdeacon. Became Bishop of Aberdeen. Also AbbotofDunfermline. Also Abbotof Dunfermline...
consecrated as the first AbbotofDunfermline Abbey. The Dun Beal Gallimhe is erected by King Tairrdelbach Ua Conchobair of Connacht. In Ireland, Saint...
place as the first abbot. During the course of several decades, the abbey gained power and wealth in Dunfermline with the dedication of 26 altars being gifted...
ofDunfermline 1506—along with his brother John, received the lands of Lochirmacus in Berwickshire. 1506–07—received a 19-year lease of the Mains of Dunbar...
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