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The Prior of May then Prior of Pittenweem (later Commendator of Pittenweem ) was the
religious superior of the
Benedictine monks of
Isle of May Priory , which later moved to the mainland became called
Pittenweem Priory . The priory was originally based on the
Isle of May , but was moved by 1318 to its nearby mainland site of
Pittenweem ,
Fife , passing from the overlordship of
Reading Abbey (Benedictine) to
St Andrews Cathedral Priory (Augustinian). The following is a list of priors and
commendators :
List of priors
Achard, 1141x1150
Robert, 1161 x 1162-1165 x 1166
William, 1166x1171
Hugh de Mortimer, 1198–1205
John, 1206–1215
Richard, 1221–1222
Radulf, 1233
John, 1248-1251
[1]
William, 1251 x 1260
Hugh, 1260–1269
William de Gloucester, 1269–1270
Thomas de Houburn, x 1306
Jordan, 1309
Martin, 1313–1318
Adam de Pilmor, 1345
Robert de Anderston, c. 1380
Robert de Leuchars, 1405
William Nory, 1402–1408; 1409-1419 x 1421
James de Haldeston , 1407-1418
[2]
John Litstar, 1418
[3]
Thomas de Camera (Chalmers), 1419 x 1421-1447
[4]
William Stury, 1421
James Kennedy , 1447-1465
[5]
Walter Monypenny, 1465-1467
[6]
Patrick Graham , 1466-1478
[8]
Walter Davidson, 1477–1479, 1489
Thomas Kymner, 1486
William Scheves , 1487-1497
[9]
List of commendators
See also
Notes
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. 94–5
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. 143–9