Abbot of Sweetheart

The Abbot of Sweetheart (later Commendator of Sweetheart; also Abbot of New Abbey) was the head of the

• Henry, S.O.Cist., 1273 - 1280[1]
• John, S.O.Cist., 1280 x 1290 - 1296
• Thomas, S.O.Cist., 1356 - 1404
• John, S.O.Cist., c.1409
• William Greenlaw, S.O.Cist., 1448 -1463
• Alexander Tyningham, S.O.Cist., 1486
• James Ruche, S.O.Cist., 1486
• Robert Greenlaw, S.O.Cist., 1515
• Herbert Browne, S.O.Cist., 1523 - 1530
• Richard Brown, S.O.Cist., 1530-1532
• Robert Arnot, S.O.Cist., 1532
• Herbert, S.O.Cist., 1538
• John Brown, S.O.Cist., 1538 - 1565
• Gilbert Broun, S.O.Cist., 1565 - 1612^[1]

List of abbot-commendators

• Gilbert Brown, 1565
• William Leslie, 1586
• Robert Maxwell, x 1612
• Robert Spottiswood, 1612 -1624

References

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. 208–10
• 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. 78

See also

• Sweetheart Abbey