List of Abbots of Dundrennan

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The following people were abbots of Dundrennan Monastery in Scotland:

Portrait of an abbot from Dundrennan from the 13th century
  • Silvanus, mentioned in 1167 when he was elected abbot of Rievaulx monastery
  • William, 1180
  • Nicholas, 1196 × 1200
  • Egidius, probably 13th century, only known from a tombstone
  • Gaufridus, 1209 × 1222
  • Robert Matursal, 1223 × 1224
  • Jordan, 1236
  • Leonius, 1236-1239
  • Ricardus, 1239
  • Adam I, 1250
  • Brian, 1250-1273
  • Adam II, 1294
  • Walter, 1296
  • John, 1305
  • William, 1332
  • Giles, 1347-1358 × 1381
  • Thomas, 1381
  • Patrick MacMen, x 1426
  • Thomas de Levinstone, 1429
  • Patrick Maligussal (Maxwell), 1431
  • Thomas de Levinstone (for the second time as Bishop of Dukeld), x1440–1454, died before 1460, also abbot of Coupar Angus Monastery , previously of Newbattle Abbey
  • Alexander Brady, 1441
  • John Hunter, 1441
  • William Lowierii (Lilburn), 1454-1472
  • John Fuogo, ca. 1473–1476
  • Alexander Pettigrew, x 1474-1479
  • John Lockhart, 1476
  • Hugh Foulis, 1479
  • William Bewister, 1485
  • Edward Story (Edward Meldrum), 1488-1515
  • Robert Hunter, 1490
  • James Hay, 1516–1524 (subsequently Bishop von Ross)
  • John Dingwall, 1518
  • Adam Symson, 1518
  • Edward Bangal, 1519
  • John Maxwell, 1524
  • Cristofer Boyd, 1526-1527

Commendati abbots

  • Henry Wemyss, 1529–1541 (Bishop of Galloway since 1526)
  • Adam Blackadder, 1541-1562
  • Edward Maxwell, 1562-1599
  • John Murray, first Earl of Annandale, 1599–1606