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The Prior of Pluscarden (later Commendator of Pluscarden) was the head of the monastic community and lands of Pluscarden Priory, Moray, Scotland. The Priory was founded in 1230 by King Alexander II of Scotland for the Valliscaulian Order. In March 1454 it incorporated the foundering neighbouring establishment of Urquhart Priory and became a dependency of Dunfermline Abbey, whence it became Benedictine. The following are a list of abbots and commendators:




List of priors


Simon [I], 1239
Andrew, x 1275
William, 1275
Simon [II], 1280–1286
John Suryass, 1291
John Wysy, 1345–1346
Thomas, 1367–1398
Alexander de Pluscarden, 1398–1426
"Eugenius Macfeturis" (Eóghann mac Pheadair), 1417-1428 x 1431
David Cran, 1427–1428
Andrew Symson, 1428-1439
Richard Lundy, 1435
William de Breneth, 1436–1449
Andrew Haig [I], 1447–1454
John Benally, 1454–1456
William Boyce, 1457–1476
Andrew Haig [II], 1469–1471
David Ruch, 1474–1475
Thomas Foster, 1476–1479
Gavin Dunbar, 1479
David Boyce, 1481–1482
Robert Harwar/Herwot/Harrower, 1487–1509
George Learmond (or George Learmonth), 1509-1529
Alexander Dunbar, 1529–1560
George Dunbar, 1561
George Seton, 1561–1569
William Cranston, 1562




List of prior-commendators


Alexander Seton, 1565-1587.
James Douglas, 1577–1581




See also


Pluscarden Priory
Prior of Urquhart




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. 61, 84-5
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. 178–82

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• Prior of Pluscarden
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• George Seton, 7th Lord Seton
• Prior of Urquhart
• Casket letters
• Alexander Seton, 1st Earl of Dunfermline
• George Learmond
• Abbot of Deer
• James Douglas of Spott