The Prior of St Mary's Isle (later Commendator of St Mary's Isle) was the head of the
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monastic community of
St Mary's Isle Priory
St Mary's Isle Priory was a monastic house of Augustinian canons located on the Isle of Trail or St Mary's Isle in Galloway.
The Prioratus Sanctae Mariae de Trayl
It is alleged Fergus, First Lord of Galloway (1138), granted then St. Maria de Tra ...
, in
Kirkcudbrightshire
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,
Galloway
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A native or i ...
. The following is a list of priors and commendators:
List of priors
* William, x 1220
* David, 1273
* William de Kars, 1347
* Stephen de Malcarston, 1381-1406
* Patrick Wotherspoon, 1423-1426
** John de Inverkeithing, 1423
** Richard de Aberdour, 1424
** Henry de Dryden, 1424-1426
* James Cameron, 1426-1446
[Became Abbot of Holyrood.]
* John de Wardlaw, 1446-1481
* Robert Bellenden (Ballantyne), 1481-1484
* John Crawford, 1484-1512 x 1515
** William Crawford, 1501
* John Crichton, 1515-1525
* George Crichton, 1525-1526
* David Douglas, 1526
* William Douglas, 1526-1528
** John Campbell, 1526
** Adam Blackadder, 1527
** John Lamb, 1528
** John Leslie, 1528
** Gavin Leslie, 1528
** John Campbell (again), 1528
* Robert Erskine, 1528-1532
List of commendators
* John Douglas, 1528-1536
* David de Voyles, 1530
*
David Paniter
David Panter lso written Painter, or Paniter(died 1 October 1558), Scottish diplomat, clerk and bishop of Ross, was the illegitimate son of Patrick Paniter, secretary to James IV; his mother was Margaret Crichton, illegitimate daughter of ...
, 1536-1547
[Became Bishop of Ross.]
** Nicholas Williamson, 1536
* Robert Stirling, 1546-1558
* William Heslop, 1558
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Robert Richardson, 1558-1566
* John Wilson, 1558
* John Stevenson, 1561
* William Rutherford, 1566-1587
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), pp. 96-7
* 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. 193-7
See also
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Abbot of Holyrood
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 th ...
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St Mary's Isle Priory
St Mary's Isle Priory was a monastic house of Augustinian canons located on the Isle of Trail or St Mary's Isle in Galloway.
The Prioratus Sanctae Mariae de Trayl
It is alleged Fergus, First Lord of Galloway (1138), granted then St. Maria de Tra ...
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