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Abbot of Kilwinning

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The Abbot of Kilwinning (later Commendator of Kilwinning) was the head of the Tironensian monastic community and lands of Kilwinning Abbey, Cunningham (now in North Ayrshire), founded between 1162 and 1167. The patron is not known for certain, but it is likely to have been Richard de Morville, Lord of Cunningham. The following are a list of abbots and commendators.

List of abbots

Rainer, 1186x1189
Nigel (?Niall), 1201-1210
John, 1221x1230
Bernard, 1296^[1]
Roger, 1296x1305
Adam, 1312-1327
William de Deyn, 1327 x 1329-1344^[2]
John de Dalgarnoc, 1344-1346^[3]
Robert, 1360-1367
John, 1384
Bryce MacMakyn, 1407
Adam, 1407 - 1439
William Boyd, 1443-1474
William Bunche, 1474 -1513^[4]
John Forman, 1512 -1514

List of commendators

James Beaton, 1513-1524^[5]
John Cantlie, 1521
John Hamilton, 1524
George Betoun, 1526-1527
Alexander Hamilton, 1527-1547
Henry Sinclair, 1541-1550^[6]
Gavin Hamilton, 1550-1571^[7]
Alexander Cunningham, 1571-1585
James Cunningham, 1585
William Melville, 1591-1592

See also

Kilwinning Abbey

Notes

^ Became abbot of Arbroath.

^ Became bishop of Aberdeen.

^ Probably became prior of Lesmahagow.

^ Died at the battle of Flodden.

^ Held the commend while archbishop of Glasgow.

^ Became bishop of Ross.

^ Became Archbishop of St Andrews.

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), p. 69
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. 127–30

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