Prior of Urquhart

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The Prior of Urquhart was the head of the Benedictine monastic community of Urquhart Priory in Moray. The Priory of Urquhart was merged with the Priory of Pluscarden in 1454. The following is a list of abbots and commendators: __

[edit] List of priors

Richard, 1199 x 1200-1207 x 1208
Thomas, 1226-1232
William (I), 1237- 1239
John, 1248
William (II) de Rathen, 1260/63-1295
William (III) Butyrgak (Buttergask), 1343
John Black, 1351 x
Michael de Inverkeithing, 1358
Robert, 1370
Adam de Haddington, 1388-1391
John Mason, 1388
William de Busby, 1391
John de Torry, 1388
Thomas de Dunfermline, 1395
William de Anderston, 1413^[1]
Robert de Dolas, 1416-1418
Gilbert Smert, 1416
William de Dalketh, 1416-1418
Andrew Rabuzy (Raeburn?), 1418-1430^[2]
Richard Bothwell, 1418
John Schaw, 1430
William Broun, 1430-1445
William Durward, 1433-1434
John Tenalay (Benaly), 1445-1454

[edit] Notes

^ Became Abbot of Dunfermline.
^ Previously the titular Prior of Coldingham.

[edit] References

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. 61
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. 213-16

[edit] See also

Prelates of Medieval Scotland (post-1100)
Archbishops	Glasgow (1492) \| St Andrews (1472)
Bishops	Aberdeen \| Argyll \| Brechin \| Caithness \| Dunblane \| Dunkeld \| Galloway \| Glasgow \| Isles (Sodor) \| Moray \| Orkney \| Ross \| St Andrews
Abbots	Arbroath \| Balmerino \| Cambuskenneth \| Coupar Angus \| Crossraguel \| Culross \| Deer \| Dercongal (Holywood) \| Dryburgh \| Dundrennan \| Dunfermline \| Fearn \| Glenluce \| Holyrood \| Inchaffray \| Inchcolm \| Iona \| Jedburgh \| Kelso (Selkirk) \| Kilwinning \| Kinloss \| Lindores \| Melrose \| Newbattle \| Paisley \| Saddell \| Scone \| Soulseat \| Sweatheart \| Tongland
Priors	Ardchattan \| Beauly \| Blantyre \| Canonbie \| Coldingham \| Fogo \| Fyvie \| Inchmahome \| Lesmahagow \| May (Pittenweem) \| Monymusk \| Oronsay \| Pluscarden \| Restenneth \| St Andrews \| Strathfillan \| St Mary's Isle \| St Serf's Inch, Loch Leven \| Urquhart \| Whithorn