Abbot of Holyrood information

The Abbot of Holyrood (later Commendator of Holyrood) was the head of the Augustinian monastic community of Holyrood Abbey, now in Edinburgh. The long...

Holyrood Abbey is a ruined abbey of the Canons Regular in Edinburgh, Scotland. The abbey was founded in 1128 by David I of Scotland. During the 15th century...

13-year-old Margaret of Denmark in July 1469 at Holyrood Abbey, Edinburgh, in a service overseen by Archibald Crawford, the Abbot of Holyrood. The marriage produced...

Abbot of Holyrood and from 1526 the Bishop of Dunkeld ????: Robert Colvill, of Crawford 1542: David Beaton, Abbot of Arbroath, Cardinal Archbishop of...

his servant Joseph Reidpath killed Gilbert Home, a servant of John Bothwell, Abbot of Holyrood, who had criticised him for hitting an officer-at-arms. The...

was a 13th-century Augustinian abbot and bishop, most notable for holding the positions of Abbot of Holyrood and Bishop of Galloway. It is not known when...

younger brother might pose in the future. James also appointed Ross as abbot of Holyrood (1498), Dunfermline (1500) and Arbroath (1503). These offices, in...

government of Scotland, the Privy Council of Scotland. The full title of the post was Lord High Treasurer, Comptroller, Collector-General and Treasurer of the...

to become Abbot of Holyrood and then Bishop of Galloway. Little is known of Simon until he appears on 27 February 1321 as Abbot of Holyrood Abbey near...

Dunfermline, Holyrood, Iona, Kelso, Kilwinning, Kinloss, Lindores, Paisley, Melrose, Scone, St Andrews Priory and Sweetheart. To distinguish abbots from bishops...

Castle. The steward of the Earl of Northumberland, Roger Lascelles, parleyed with the Earl of Angus and William Douglas, Abbot of Holyrood, across the Tweed...

the Abbot of Soulseat or the Prior of St Mary's Isle. Became Bishop of Galloway. Became Abbot of Holyrood. Became Archbishop of Glasgow. Also Abbot of Dundrennan...

times he was provost of Corstorphine, abbot of Holyrood. He was appointed bishop of Ross in 1539, holding in commendam the abbacy of Fern. He also held...

the part of his barony to the Abbot of Holyrood which was confirmed in a charter by Alexander II of Scotland. The heiress of Sir William Colville was E'stace...

around 1480. He was related to the Bellenden family; Robert Bellenden, Abbot of Holyrood was his great-uncle. Abell became a friar at Inchaffray Abbey in 1495...

The Bishop of Galloway, also called the Bishop of Whithorn, is the ecclesiastical head of the Diocese of Galloway, said to have been founded by Saint...

when King David I of Scotland granted lands for the construction of Holyrood Abbey. In 1493 Robert Bellenden, Abbot of Holyrood, built St Ninian's Chapel...

witnessed by Alwin, Abbot of Holyrood (Alwyno abbate de Edenb.,), who had resigned his abbacy in 1151, and by Herbert, Bishop of Glasgow, who was consecrated...

also Abbot of Coupar Angus and previously Abbot-elect of Newbattle. Became bishop of Ross in 1524. Previously abbot of Holyrood. Had been bishop of Galloway...

known named "provost" of the church Robert Cairncross was provost in 1544... left to become Abbot of Holyrood Abbey Walter Couper of Gogar (d.1570) reader...

crowned in Holyrood Abbey by Abbot Patrick on 23 March 1437. On 3 July 1449, the eighteen-year-old James married the fifteen-year-old Mary of Guelders,...

Lothian-based family, and was the nephew of Alwin, Abbot of Holyrood. Richard was elected to the see in 1163, soon after the death of his predecessor Ernald, and was...