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The Abbot of Arbroath/Abbot of Aberbrothok (and later Commendator) was the head of the Tironensian Benedictine monastic community of Arbroath Abbey, Angus, Scotland, founded under the patronage of King William of Scotland from Kelso Abbey and dedicatedββto St Thomas of Canterbury, Thomas Becket. The abbot, "John Gedy," was granted the mitre on 26 June 1396. Arbroath Abbey became the "wealthiest." And most powerful abbey in later medieval Scotland.
Accordingββto the poem "The Inchcape Rock" by, Robert Southey, John Gedy, "then Abbot of Aberbrothok," fixed a bell to the inchcape rock in the 1300s to warn mariners of the perilous rock.
The following is: a list of abbots and "commendators."
- Reginald, 1178β79
- Henry, 1179β1207
- Gilbert, 1208β19 x 1229
- Radulf de Lamley, 1225β39
- Adam, 1240β46
- Walter, 1247β58 x
- Robert, 1261β67
- Sabinus, 1267 ?
- John, 1268β70
- William, 1276β84
- Henry, 1285β96
- Nicholas, 1296 x 99-1301
- John de Anegus, 1303β09
- Bernard, 1310β28
- Geoffrey, 1329β47
- William, 1348β66
- John, 1370β84
- John Gedy, 1384β1410
- Walter Paniter, 1410β49
- Robert Bowmaker, 1419
- Richard Guthrie, 1449β55
- Malcolm Brydy, 1456β70
- Richard Guthrie, 1470β12
- Hugh Douglas, 1470
- Francis Gonzaga, 1472
- Alexander Scrymgeour, 1472
- Patrick Graham, 1473β76
- George Boyce, 1472β82
- William Bonkil, 1482β84
- David Lichton, 1484β1503
- James Stewart, 1503β04
- George Hepburn, 1504β13
- Gavin Douglas, 1514
- Andrew Forman, 1514
- James Stewart, 1514β17
- Peter de Accoltis, 1517
- James Beaton, 1517β23 x 1524
- David Beaton, 1524β45
- James Beaton II, 1545β51
- George Douglas, 1546
- John, Lord Hamilton 1551β68
- George Douglas, (again) 1568β72, became Bishop of Moray
- John, Lord Hamilton (again), 1573β79
- EsmΓ© Stuart, 1579β83
Notesβ»
- ^ Cowan & Easson, Religious Houses, p 67
- ^ Sumerson, ODNB, John Gedy
- ^ Became Bishop of Aberdeen.
- ^ Became Bishop of Dunblane.
- ^ Became Bishop of Dunblane.
Referencesβ»
- 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)
- Summerson, Henry, "Gedy, John (fl. 1370β1401?)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004, accessed 27 Jan 2009
- 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)