Balmerino Abbey

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Balmerino Abbey

Monastery Information
Order	Cistercian
Mother House	Melrose Abbey
Established	1229
Disestablished by	1603
Diocese	Diocese of St Andrews
Controlled churches	Balmerino; Barry; Cultrain; Logie-Murdoch
People
Founder	Ermengarde de Beaumont

Balmerino Abbey (or St Edward's Abbey, Balmerino) was a Cistercian monastic community founded in 1227 x 1229 by monks from Melrose Abbey with the patronage of Ermengarde de Beaumont and King Alexander II of Scotland. It remained a daughter house of Melrose. It had approximately 20 monks at the beginning of the 16th century, but declined in that century. In December 1547 it was burned by an English force, and allegedly burned again in 1559 by Scottish Protestants. In 1606 and 1607 it was created as a secular lordship for James Elphinstone, 1st Lord Balmerino.

[edit] 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. 72-3
• 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. 12-15

[edit] See also

• Abbot of Balmerino
• Lord Balmerino

[edit] External links

• Balmerino abbey on Undiscovered Scotland