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monastic community of

Dundrennan Abbey Dundrennan Abbey, in Dundrennan, Scotland, near to Kirkcudbright, was a Cistercian monastery in the Romanesque architectural style, established in 1142 by Fergus of Galloway, King David I of Scotland (1124–53), and monks from Rievaulx Abbey. Th ...

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. It was founded by

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in 1142. Dundrennan was a large and powerful monastery in the context of the south-west. It became secularised and protestantised in the 16th century. In 1606 it was finally turned into a secular lordship in for John Murray of Lochmaben, afterwards

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. The royal warrant in 1886 which revived the office of

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also gave the Dean the titles of

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and Abbot of Dundrennan. The following is a list of abbots and commendators: __NOTOC__

List of abbots

* Silvanus, fl. 1167 * William, 1180 * Nicholas, l196 x 1200 * Egidius fl. 13th century * Gaufridus (Geoffrey), 1209 x 1222 * Robert Matursal, 1223 x 1224 * Jordan, 1236 * Leonius, 1236–1239 * Ricardus (Richard), 1239 * Adam I, 1250 * Brian, 1250–1273 * Adam II, 1294 * Walter, 1296 * John, 1305 * William, 1332 * Giles, 1347 - 1358 x 1381 * Thomas, 1381 * Patrick MacMen, x 1426 * Thomas de Levinstone, 1429 * Patrick Maligussal

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1431 * Thomas de Levinstone (again), x1440-1454 ** Alexander Brady, 1441 ** John Hunter, 1441 * William Lowierii (Lilburn), 1454–1472 * John Fuogo

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c. 1473-1476 * Alexander Pettigrew, x 1474-1479 * John Lockhart, 1476 * Hugh Foulis, 1479 * William Bewister, 1485 * Edward Story (Edward Meldrum), 1488–1515 ** Robert Hunter, 1490 *

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, 1516-1524 ** John Dingwall, 1518 ** Adam Symson, 1518 ** Edward Bangal, 1519 * John Maxwell, fl. 1524 * Cristofer Boyd, fl. 1526-1527

List of commendators

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, 1529-1541Had been

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since 1526; was also

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(1530-1541). * Adam Blackadder, 1541–1562 * Edward Maxwell, 1562–1599 * John Murray of Lochmaben, 1599–1606

Notes

Bibliography

* Thompson, Barbara, "Monks and Other Officers of Dundrennan", (Dundrennan Abbey; unpublished) * 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. 63–7 {{DEFAULTSORT:Dundrennan Cistercian abbots by monastery Scottish abbots Lists of abbots