The Prior of Loch Leven was the head of lands and of the community
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canons of
St Serf's Inch Priory
The St Serf's Inch Priory (or Portmoak Priory) was a community of Augustinian canons based, initially at least, on St Serf's Inch in Loch Leven, Perth and Kinross, Scotland.
Origins
One of the oldest Christian sites in Scotland a church was b ...
,
Loch Leven (a.k.a. Portmoak Priory). There was a Scottish ''Céli Dé'' (or
Culdee
The Culdees ( ga, Céilí Dé, "Spouses of God") were members of ascetic Christian monastic and eremitical communities of Ireland, Scotland, Wales and England in the Middle Ages. Appearing first in Ireland and subsequently in Scotland, attac ...
) establishment there in the first half of the 12th century, allegedly found by
Bruide, son of Dargart,
King of the Picts
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(696–706). When the Augustinian priory was founded in 1150, the Scottish monks were absorbed into the established and those who refused to join were to be expelled. Not all of the priors are known. The most famous prior undoubtedly was the chronicler,
Andrew de Wyntoun. Following more than four centuries of Augustinian monastic life and the resignation of the last prior, the Protestant king,
James VI of Scotland
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, granted the priory to
St Leonard's College,
St Andrews
St Andrews ( la, S. Andrea(s); sco, Saunt Aundraes; gd, Cill Rìmhinn) is a town on the east coast of Fife in Scotland, southeast of Dundee and northeast of Edinburgh. St Andrews had a recorded population of 16,800 , making it Fife's fou ...
.
Known abbots and priors
List of known Scottish abbots of St Serf's Inch
* Ronán, fl. mid-10th century
* Eógan, fl. 1128
List of known Augustinian priors of Loch Leven
* Roger, fl. 1183 x 1203-1212 x
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Simon
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* Eugène Simon, French naturalist and the genus ...
, c. 1225-x 1235
* G.
..?[Only known by initial. He was definitely the third prior.] fl. 1235
* Laurence, fl. 1268
* Robert de Montrose, fl. 1386 x 1387
* David Bell, 1387–1390
* Thomas Mason, 1388–1389
*
Andrew de Wyntoun, 1390–1421
** James Biset, 1391–1394
* John Cameron, 1421
* Andrew Newton, 1423
* Robert Horsbruk, 1440–1460
* David Ramsay, 1462 x 1466
* Walter Monypenny, 1465–1500
* John Wylie, 1465
* Alexander Scrimgeour, 1483
* Thomas Kynor
innear 1486
* David Dickson, 1524–1525
* Michael Donaldson, 1524–1525
*
John Winram
John Winram (1492 - 1582) was a 16th-century Scottish priest and ecclesiastical reformer. He was born in 1492, the son of one James Winram of Ratho and his wife Margaret Wilkie. He obtained a Bachelor's Degree (1515), a Master's Degree (x 1532 ...
, 1534
* David Guthrie, 1544–1558
*
John Winram
John Winram (1492 - 1582) was a 16th-century Scottish priest and ecclesiastical reformer. He was born in 1492, the son of one James Winram of Ratho and his wife Margaret Wilkie. He obtained a Bachelor's Degree (1515), a Master's Degree (x 1532 ...
, 1552–1582
See also
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St Serf's Inch Priory
The St Serf's Inch Priory (or Portmoak Priory) was a community of Augustinian canons based, initially at least, on St Serf's Inch in Loch Leven, Perth and Kinross, Scotland.
Origins
One of the oldest Christian sites in Scotland a church was b ...
Notes
References
* 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. 93
* 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. 139–42
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