Prior of Monymusk explained

Prior of Monymusk (later, Commendator of Monymusk) was the head of the property and community of Augustinian canons of Monymusk Priory, Aberdeenshire. The following is a list of priors and commendators:

List of office holders

List of priors

• Máel Brigte (Bricius), 1210x1211-1222x^[1]
• Unknown abbots
• Alan, fl. 1268
• Unknown abbots
• Bernard, fl. 1345
• Andrew Cant, 1357-1365
• Unknown abbots
• David de Kynnard, x 1420
• Richard de Donery, 1420-1426
• Robert de Kilconkar, 1424-1429
• Robert de Paisley, 1427-1429 x 1430
• John de Tulach, 1429
• William de Cupar, 1430-1444 x 1450
• William Crannach, 1430^[2]
• William Couys (Cowes), 1430-1434
• Laurence de Cupar, 1430
• Robert de Keith, 1434
• John de Luoris (Luchris), 1444
• David Hay, 1450-1464 x 1469
• Thomas Straton, 1469
• Alexander Spens, 1469-1489 x 1491
• John Dugut, x1489
• William Kermichael (Carmichael), 1489
• Robert Fairweather, 1486-1490
• Laurence Valles, 1490
• Bartholomew de Putellis, 1491
• Richard Strathauchin, 1497-1499 x 1509
• John Aitkenheid, 1509-1523

List of commendators

• David Ferlie, 1522-1554 x 1558
• John Elphinstone, 1543-1554 x 1562
• Duncan Sviles, 1546
• John Stewart, 1558
• John Hay. 1558-1573^[3]
• Alexander Forbes, 1574-1577
• Robert Forbes, 1577-1614 x 1616

See also

• Monymusk Priory

Notes

1. A culdee.
2. Became Abbot of Inchaffray.
3. [Commendator of Balmerino]

References

• Cowan, Ian B. & Easson, David E., Medieval Religious Houses: Scotland With an Appendix on the Houses in the Isle of Man, Second rdition, (London, 1976), pp. 155–59
• 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. 93–4