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Wikipedia / Prior of Coldingham

The Prior of Coldingham was the head of the Benedictine monastic community of Coldingham Priory in Berwickshire, Scotland. The priory was founded during the reign of David I of Scotland, although his older brother and predecessor, King Edgar of Scotland, had granted the land of Coldingham to the Church of Durham in 1098 AD, and a church was built by him and presented in 1100. The first prior is recorded by 1147, although an earlier foundation is likely. The monastic cell was a dependency of Durham until the 1370s, and in 1378 King Robert II of Scotland expelled the Durham monks; for the following century, the cell had two priors: one chosen by Durham and one by the Scots. It later became a dependency of Dunfermline Abbey. It was subject to increasingly secular control from the late 15th century into the 16th century.

List of priors

  • Edward, fl. 1124 x 1153

  • H.[...], fl. 1147 x 1150

  • Sampson, fl. x 1159-1161 x 1162

  • Alan, fl. 1165 x 1173

  • Herbert, 1172x1174-1175

  • Bertram, 1188-1189

  • Simon, 1189 x 1203

  • Radulf, x 1203-x 1207

  • Ernald, x 1207-1208 x 1211

  • Thomas, 1212-1221 x

  • Radulf, 1218 x 1234

  • Thomas de Melsonby, 1229-1234

  • Anketin, 1239-1242

  • Bertram de Mediltone, 1242 x 1244

  • Richard, x 1245-1247 or 1248

  • Henry de Sylton, 1248-1260

  • German, 1260

  • Roger de Wolviston, 1263-1274 x 1276

  • Henry de Horncastre, 1276-1296

  • William de Midilton, 1304

  • William de Gretham, 1304-1305

  • Adam de Pontefract, 1309-1311

  • William de Gretham, 1311-1321

  • Richard de Whitworth, 1322-1325

  • Adam de Pontefract, 1325-1332

  • Robert de Graystanes, 1333

  • Alexander de Lamsley, 1334

  • William de Scaccario, 1336 x 1337

  • Alexander de Lamsley, 1338-1339

  • John Fossour, 1340-1341

  • Walter de Skaresbrekis, 1341-1354

  • William de Bamburgh, 1355-1362

  • Robert Berrington de Walworth, 1363-1374

  • Robert de Claxton, 1374 x 1379

List of priors with allegiance to Durham

  • Robert de Claxton, 1374-1391

  • John de Ayclif, 1392-1416

  • William Drax, 1418-1441

  • John Oil, 1441-1447

  • Thomas Nesbitt, 1447-1456

  • John Pencher, 1456-1465 x 1467

  • Thomas Haughton, 1467

  • Thomas Wren, 1470

List of priors with allegiance to Dunfermline

  • Adam de Carale, 1374 x 1379

  • Michael de Inverkeithing, 1379-1389

William Reid, 1389-1390

  • Simon Marischal, 1389

  • John Steele, 1390-1402

  • Alan de Lyn, 1402

  • Richard Mongal, 1402-1409

  • Andrew Raburn, 1409-1414 x 1418

  • Robert Bowmaker, 1419

  • William Brown, 1419-1430

  • Stephen Bryg, 1432

  • William Boyce, 1442-1445

List of prior-commendators

  • Patrick Home, 1461-1478

  • John Home, 1464-1503

  • Ninian Home, 1501-1508

  • John Home, 1509

  • Alexander Stewart, 1510-1513

David Home, 1513-1517

William Douglas, 1519 -1526

Notes

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), pp.55–6

  • 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.29–42

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