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 The ruins of Melrose Abbey as they were in June 2004.
List of Abbots - Richard,[2] 1136-1148[3]
- St. Waltheof,[4] 1148-1159[5]
- William, 1159-1170[6]
- Jocelin, 1170-1174[7]
- Laurence, 1175-1178[8]
- Ernald, 1179-89[9]
- Reiner,[10] 1189-94[11]
- Radulf (I),[12] 1194-1202[13]
- William,[14] 1202-06
- Patrick,[15] 1206-07
- Adam, 1207-13[16]
- Hugh de Clipstone, 1214-15[17]
- William de Courcy, 1215-6[18]
- Radulf II,[19] 1216-1219[20]
- Adam de Harkarres,[21] 1219-46[22]
- Matthew,[23] 1246-61[24]
- Adam of Maxton,[25] 1261-67[26]
- John de Edrom (or Ederham), 1267-68 x 69[27]
- Robert de Keldeleth,[28] 1269-73
- Patrick de Selkirk, 1273 96
- ???[29]
- William de Fogo, 1310 1329
- Thomas de Soutra, 1333 x 1335-x1342
- William de St Andrews, 1342 1376
- Gilbert de Roxburgh, 1391 1392
- David Benyng (or Binning), 1394 1422
- John Fogo, 1425 1434
- Richard Londy (or Lundy), 1440 1444
- Andrew Hunter, 1444-1465[30]
- Robert Blackadder, 1471 1483
- Richard Lamb, 1472-1483[31]
- John Brown (or Carnecorss), 1483 1486
- ???, 1486[32]
- ???, 1486[32]
- David Brown, 1486-1507/10
- Bernard Bell, rival to David Brown, 1486 1503
- William Turnbull, rival to David Brown, 1503-1507[33]
- Robert Betoun,[34] 1507/10-1521 x 1524
- John Maxwell,[35] 1524-1526
- Andrew Durie, 1525-1541[36]
List of Commendators - James Stewart,[37] 1535-1557
- Louis de Guise,[38] 1558-1559
- James Balfour, 1559 1564
- Michael Balfour, 1564 1568
- James Douglas of Lochleven,[39] 1569-1620
Notes Bibliography - Cowan, Ian B. & Easson, David E., Medieval Religious Houses: Scotland With an Appendix on the Houses in the Man, Second Edition, (London, 1976), pp. 76 77
- Fawcett, Richard, & Oram, Richard, Melrose Abbey, (Stroud, 2004)
- 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), p. 149-55
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