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Effigy of an early thirteenth century abbot of Dundrennan. The Abbot of Dundrennan was the head of the Cistercian monastic community of Dundrennan Abbey, Galloway. It was founded by Fergus of Galloway in 1142. Dundrennan was a large and powerful monastery in the context of the south-west. It became secularised and protestanised in the 16th century. In 1606 it was finally turned into a secular lordship in for John Murray of Lochmaben, afters earl of Annandale. The following is a list of abbots and commendators: List of abbots - Silvanus, fl. 1167[1]
- William, 1180
- Nicholas, l196 x 1200
- [? Egidius], fl. 13th century[2]
- Gaufridus (Geoffrey), 1209 x 1222
- Robert Matursal, 1223 x 1224
- Jordan, 1236
- Leonius, 1236 1239
- Ricardus (Richard), 1239
- Adam I, 1250
- Brian, 1250 1273
- Adam II, 1294
- Walter, 1296
- John, 1305
- William, 1332
- Giles, 1347 - 1358 x 1381
- Thomas, 1381
- Patrick MacMen, x 1426
- Thomas de Levinstone, 1429
- Patrick Maligussal [Maxwell], 1431
- Thomas de Levinstone (again), x1440-1454[3]
- Alexander Brady, 1441
- John Hunter, 1441
- William Lowierii (Lilburn), 1454 1472
- John Fuogo [Fogo], c. 1473-1476
- Alexander Pettigrew, x 1474-1479
- John Lockhart, 1476
- Hugh Foulis, 1479
- William Bewister, 1485
- Edward Story (Edward Meldrum), 1488 1515
- James Hay, 1516-1524[4]
- John Dingwall, 1518
- Adam Symson, 1518
- Edward Bangal, 1519
- John Maxwell, fl. 1524[5]
- Cristofer Boyd, fl. 1526-1527
List of commendators Notes Bibliography - Thompson, Barbara, "Monks and Other Officers of Dundrennan", (Dundrennan Abbey; unpublished)
- 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. 63 7
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