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 its abbots were men of distinction and honour. Waltheof of Melrose, stepson of King David and at one time prior of Kirkham, was abbot of Melrose from...

Chronicle of Melrose reads: The tomb of our pious father, sir Waltheof, the second abbot of Melrose, was opened by Enguerrand, of good memory, the bishop of Glasgow...

fourth Abbot of Melrose before becoming Bishop of Glasgow, Scotland. He was probably born in the 1130s, and in his teenage years became a monk of Melrose Abbey...

chosen as one of the 12 monks selected from Lindisfarne to found the new daughter monastery at Melrose. In 651 he was elected abbot of Melrose. Around 658...

Amongst the witnesses are the Abbot of Melrose, the Abbot of Newbottle, Richard de Morville, Constable of Scotland, 'Alan, son of Walter the Steward, and William...

and confesses him. A gardener [Boniface, formerly Abbot of Melrose in The Monastery] complains of his hard life. Ch. 3 (29): Back in the castle, after...

Wars of Religion. The third son of Claude, Duke of Guise and Antoinette de Bourbon he was destined from a young age for a church career. At the age of 18...

Jocelin (d. 1199), abbot of Melrose, and Bishop of Glasgow Jocelin of Soissons (d. 1152) Jocelin of Wells, a 13th-century bishop of Bath and Wells Jocelin...

His Life of Waltheof was written to promote the cult of a former abbot of Melrose. The Life of St Helena was probably commissioned by a female community...

appearance as Abbot of Kinloss in a Melrose charter datable to between 1202 and 1207. It is not known for certain when he became abbot of Kinloss Abbey...

Adam of Melrose (died 1222) was Abbot of Melrose and Bishop of Caithness, famously burned to death by the husbandmen of Caithness. At the time, Caithness...

Cant's Close (sign only, erected 1990) Melrose Close (sign only, erected 1990), named for Andrew Durie, Abbot of Melrose Abbey. Toddrick's Wynd (sealed/private)...

nobleman, monk, and abbot of Melrose Abbey. His feast day is 26 May. The monks of St Augustine's Abbey, Ramsgate wrote in their Book of Saints (1921): Oduvald...

turn is named after a ford in Scotland's Tweed River, used by the abbot of Melrose Abbey. Since World War II the area has become quite ethnically diverse...

the Anglo-Norman noble Raoul III of Tosny. One of Waltheof's grandsons was Saint Waltheof (died 1159), abbot of Melrose. Waltheof was portrayed by actor...

King William of Scotland not to invade England, which William did anyway in 1174; and arbitrating a dispute between the Abbot of Melrose and Richard de...

commemorates Saint Boisil, an Abbot of Melrose. The village has an annual gypsy fair, originally a focus for the trade of horses. This fair once attracted...

Scottish prelate, diplomat and politician, who was Abbot of Melrose, Bishop-elect of Aberdeen and Bishop of Glasgow; when the latter was elevated to an archbishopric...

1167 Sylvanus, occurs 1170 (previously Abbot of Dundrennan) Ernald, 1192, resigned 1199 (previously Abbot of Melrose) William Punchard, occurs 1201–2, died...

Adam of Harcarse (died 1245) was a 13th-century Cistercian Abott. He served as Abbot of Newbattle between 1216 and 1219 and then Abbot of Melrose from...

stage. In 1269 he became Abbot of Melrose (1269–1273), Newbattle's mother house, and held this position for the last four years of his life. His name suggests...

Marches in lower Lauderdale to the monks of Melrose, and in 1235 he, with Adam, Abbot of Melrose, and Gilbert, Bishop of Galloway, led an expedition against...

(bishop of Lindisfarne), Abbot of Melrose and Bishop of Lindisfarne, d. 740; feast kept 12 February Saint Æthelwold of Winchester, Bishop of Winchester...

1261, Adam de Maxton was elected Abbot of Melrose. He may be the same Alexander de Maxton, who was styled "constable of Roxburgh", and the individual who...

Prague at the time. He was in turn Abbot of Melrose (Scotland), Abbot-Superior of the Benedictines of Vienna, Abbot of the Benedictine Emmaus Monastery...

Abbot of Melrose, Scotland; Abbot-Superior of the Benedictines of Vienna; Grand Vicar to the Archbishop of Prague; Bishop of Satrianum; Bishop of Campagna;...

bishop of Galloway and abbot of Melrose, was the son of John Durie of Durie in Fife, and brother to George Durie, abbot of Dunfermline and archdeacon of St...

a noble who became a monk and later Abbot of Melrose Abbey in Scotland (698) Saint Regintrudis, fourth Abbess of Nonnberg Abbey near Salzburg in Austria...

1567-1587 Newbattle Abbey Became Abbot of Melrose. Became Abbot of Melrose. Had previously been elected Prior of Beauly. Cowan, Ian B. & Easson, David...