The Abbot of Cambuskenneth or Abbot of Stirling (later Commendator of Cambuskenneth) was the head of the Arrouaisian ( Augustinian) monastic community of Cambuskenneth Abbey, near

Stirling Stirling (; ; ) is a City status in the United Kingdom, city in Central Belt, central Scotland, northeast of Glasgow and north-west of Edinburgh. The market town#Scotland, market town, surrounded by rich farmland, grew up connecting the roya ...

. The long history of the abbey came to a formal end when the abbey was turned into a secular lordship for the last commendator, Alexander Erskine. The following is a list of

abbot Abbot is an ecclesiastical title given to the head of an independent monastery for men in various Western Christian traditions. The name is derived from ''abba'', the Aramaic form of the Hebrew ''ab'', and means "father". The female equivale ...

s and commendators:

List of abbots

* William, 1147–1150 * Isaac, 1152/1153 * Alured, 1152/1153–1171/1178 * Nicholas, 1171/1182–1195 * William, 1207–1235 * Peter, 1235–1240 * Richard, 1253–1269 * Richard Grossus, 1269 * John, 1287–1292 * Patrick, 1295–1296 * Michael, 1307 * Gilbert, 1308/1310 * Fergus, 1311 * John, 1336 * John de Kincardine, 1336 * William, 1342 * Adam, 1350 * Gilbert, 1362–1363 * William de Blackburn, 1390–1398 * Patrick de Callendar, 1401–1434 * David White, 1439–1443 * David Kelly (Celle), 1445–1462 * John, 1465 * Henry Abercrombie, 1466–1502 ** Alexander Ruch (Ruthven), x 1469 * David Arnot, 1503–1509 * Andrew MacBreck, 1509–1511/1513 * Patrick Paniter (Painter), 1513–1519 * Alexander Mylne, 1519–1548

List of commendators

* David Paniter, 1549–1558 Bishop of Ross (1545–58). * Adam Erskine, 1562–1605 ** Alexander Livingstone, 1585 * Alexander Erskine, 1608–1617

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. 89–90 * 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. 24–8

List of abbots

List of commendators

Notes

Bibliography

See also