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The Abbot and then Commendator of Melrose was the head of the monastic community of Melrose Abbey, in Melrose in the Borders region of Scotland. The abbots of the earlier Northumbrian foundation from Lindisfarne are not included here. The second abbey was founded in 1136 on the patronage of David I (Dabíd mac Maíl Choluim), King of Scots, by Cistercian monks from Rievaulx Abbey, Yorkshire. Control of the abbey was secularized in the 16th century and after the accession of James Stewart, the abbey was held by commendators. The last commendator, James Douglas of Lochleven, resigned the abbacy to William Douglas, 6th Earl of Morton (his nephew) in December 1606, and the abbey itself to the king in 1608. The abbey (or most of its lands) was then erected into a secular lordship for viscount Haddington, John Ramsay, who in 1609 was created "Lord Melrose". Lochleven however resumed the title of commendator in 1613 until his death in 1620.




List of Abbots


Richard, 1136-1148
St. Waltheof, 1148-1159
William, 1159-1170
Jocelin, 1170-1174
Laurence, 1175-1178
Ernald, 1179-89
Reiner, 1189-94
Radulf (I), 1194-1202
William, 1202-06
Patrick, 1206-07
Adam, 1207-13
Hugh de Clipstone, 1214-15
William de Courcy, 1215-6
Radulf II, 1216-1219
Adam de Harkarres, 1219-46
Matthew, 1246-61
Adam of Maxton, 1261-67
John de Edrom (or Ederham), 1267-68 x 69
Robert de Keldeleth, 1269-73
Patrick de Selkirk, 1273–96
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William de Fogo, 1310–1329
Thomas de Soutra, 1333 x 1335-x1342
William de St Andrews, 1342–1376
Gilbert de Roxburgh, 1391–1392
David Benyng (or Binning), 1394–1422
John Fogo, 1425–1434
Richard Londy (or Lundy), 1440–1444
Andrew Hunter, 1444-1465
Robert Blackadder, 1471–1483
Richard Lamb, 1472-1483
John Brown (or Carnecorss), 1483–1486
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David Brown, 1486-1507/10
Bernard Bell, rival to David Brown, 1486–1503
William Turnbull, rival to David Brown, 1503-1507
Robert Betoun, 1507/10-1521 x 1524
John Maxwell, 1524-1526
Andrew Durie, 1525-1541




List of Commendators


James Stewart, 1535-1557
Louis de Guise, 1558-1559
James Balfour, 1559–1564
Michael Balfour, 1564–1568
James Douglas of Lochleven, 1569-1620




Notes






Bibliography


Cowan, Ian B. & Easson, David E., Medieval Religious Houses: Scotland With an Appendix on the Houses in the Man, Second Edition, (London, 1976), pp. 76–77
Fawcett, Richard, & Oram, Richard, Melrose Abbey, (Stroud, 2004)
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. 149–55

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