Prior of Restenneth

Prior of Restenneth

The Prior of Restenneth (later Commendator of Restenneth) was the head of the Augustinian canons of Restenneth Priory, Angus. The following is a list of priors and commendators:__NOTOC__

List of priors

* Robert, 1147x1159-1162
* William, 1178- 1189x1194
* Hugh, 1198-1205 [Became abbot of Jedburgh (1205-x 1211).]
* Berengar, 1206
* John, 1219x1238
* Germanus, 1218 x , 1224 x
* William, 1267
* A [???] , x1292 [Known only by initial.]
* Robert, 1296
* William, 1317x1321
* Bernard, 1320
* John de Eskdale, 1324 x 1327-1330 [Became abbot of Jedburgh (1338-1354).]
* Alexander de Falkirk, 1347-1369
* John Marsyale, 1388
* Thomas de Eskdale, 1408 [Became abbot of Jedburgh (1411-x 1422).]
* James de Keith, 1411-1419
* John Hunter, 1430
* Nicholas Crawford, 1445 xc. 1464
* James Dunmain (Dunmanning), c.1464 - 1470
** Henry Barrie, 1465 -1466
** John Woodman, 1465 x 1468 [Became abbot of Jedburgh (1468-1476).]
* William Lindsay, 1470 -1471 x 1476
* William Forfar, 1474
* William Rutherford, 1484 -1494
* Thomas Kinnear, 1490 -1492
* Alexander Farnese, 1494
* David Guthrie, 1494
* Alexander Menteith, 1494-1516
* Thomas Nudre, 1513-1523
* John Hovinan (Home), 1523-1547 [Was abbot of Jedburgh (1512-1549).]
* David Douglas, 1530 -1533
* Robert Cottis, 1531-1534 [Previously prior of Blantyre.]

List of commendators

* Andrew Home, 1547-1593 [Was abbot of Jedburgh (1547-1593).]

Notes

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), p. 95-6
* 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. 182-86

ee also

* Restenneth Priory


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