The Abbot of Holyrood (later Commendator of Holyrood) was the head of the Augustinian monastic community of Holyrood Abbey, now in Edinburgh. The long...

Holyrood Abbey is a ruined abbey of the Canons Regular in Edinburgh, Scotland. The abbey was founded in 1128 by David I of Scotland. During the 15th century...

Abbot of Holyrood and from 1526 the Bishop of Dunkeld ????: Robert Colvill, of Crawford 1542: David Beaton, Abbot of Arbroath, Cardinal Archbishop of...

The rector's report was first published in 1846. 1128 Nominees of the Abbots of Holyrood 1519 David Vocat 1524 Henry Henryson, MA 1530 Adam Mure, MA 1545...

government of Scotland, the Privy Council of Scotland. The full title of the post was Lord High Treasurer, Comptroller, Collector-General and Treasurer of the...

Rutherford, 1566-1587 Became Abbot of Holyrood. Became Abbot of Holyrood. Abbot of Holyrood; became Bishop of Dunkeld. Became Bishop of Ross. Cowan, Ian B. &...

13-year-old Margaret of Denmark in July 1469 at Holyrood Abbey, Edinburgh, in a service overseen by Archibald Crawford, the Abbot of Holyrood. The marriage produced...

younger brother might pose in the future. James also appointed Ross as abbot of Holyrood (1498), Dunfermline (1500) and Arbroath (1503). These offices, in...

Archibald Douglas, 6th Earl of Angus Sir George Douglas of Pittendreich William Douglas, Prior of Coldingham and Abbot of Holyrood Elizabeth Douglas, married...

was a 13th-century Augustinian abbot and bishop, most notable for holding the positions of Abbot of Holyrood and Bishop of Galloway. It is not known when...

his servant Joseph Reidpath killed Gilbert Home, a servant of John Bothwell, Abbot of Holyrood, who had criticised him for hitting an officer-at-arms. The...

IV at the bequest of Robert Bellenden, abbot of Holyrood. The abbots of Holyrood served as the hospital's superiors and the manse of the hospital's vicar...

to become Abbot of Holyrood and then Bishop of Galloway. Little is known of Simon until he appears on 27 February 1321 as Abbot of Holyrood Abbey near...

Crichtoun served as Abbot of Holyrood Abbey then as the Bishop of Dunkeld until his death on 24 January 1543. He was abbot of Holyrood Abbey in Edinburgh...

The Bishop of Galloway, also called the Bishop of Whithorn, is the ecclesiastical head of the Diocese of Galloway, said to have been founded by Saint...

Dunfermline, Holyrood, Iona, Kelso, Kilwinning, Kinloss, Lindores, Paisley, Melrose, Scone, St Andrews Priory and Sweetheart. To distinguish abbots from bishops...

the part of his barony to the Abbot of Holyrood which was confirmed in a charter by Alexander II of Scotland. The heiress of Sir William Colville was E'stace...

Castle. The steward of the Earl of Northumberland, Roger Lascelles, parleyed with the Earl of Angus and William Douglas, Abbot of Holyrood, across the Tweed...

Andrew, Bishop of Glasgow; Archibald, Abbot of Holyrood; James Lindsay, Prior of Lincluden, Keeper of the Privy Seal; Colin Campbell, Earl of Argyll; William...

times he was provost of Corstorphine, abbot of Holyrood. He was appointed bishop of Ross in 1539, holding in commendam the abbacy of Fern. He also held...

the Abbot of Soulseat or the Prior of St Mary's Isle. Became Bishop of Galloway. Became Abbot of Holyrood. Became Archbishop of Glasgow. Also Abbot of Dundrennan...

unit of currency equivalent to two-thirds of a pound. Part of a series of near-monthly truces brokered in the early 1430s between the wardens of both...

around 1480. He was related to the Bellenden family; Robert Bellenden, Abbot of Holyrood was his great-uncle. Abell became a friar at Inchaffray Abbey in 1495...

known named "provost" of the church Robert Cairncross was provost in 1544... left to become Abbot of Holyrood Abbey Walter Couper of Gogar (d.1570) reader...

Lothian-based family, and was the nephew of Alwin, Abbot of Holyrood. Richard was elected to the see in 1163, soon after the death of his predecessor Ernald, and was...

witnessed by Alwin, Abbot of Holyrood (Alwyno abbate de Edenb.,), who had resigned his abbacy in 1151, and by Herbert, Bishop of Glasgow, who was consecrated...

Isle) to the Monks of Holyrood Abbey, (The Abbot of Sancte Crusis) as confirmed by John, Bishop of Galloway, at the beginning of the thirteenth century...

resigned the position to the Abbot of Holyrood under faculty of Pope Paul II; this happened before 26 July 1471, the date of Pope Paul's death, though it...

when King David I of Scotland granted lands for the construction of Holyrood Abbey. In 1493 Robert Bellenden, Abbot of Holyrood, built St Ninian's Chapel...

also Abbot of Coupar Angus and previously Abbot-elect of Newbattle. Became bishop of Ross in 1524. Previously abbot of Holyrood. Had been bishop of Galloway...