The Prior of Loch Leven was the head of lands and of the community Augustinian canons of St Serf's Inch Priory, Loch Leven (a.k.a. Portmoak Priory). There was a Scottish Céli Dé (or Culdee) establishment there in the first half of the 12th century, allegedly found by Bruide, son of Dargart, King of the Picts (696–706). When the Augustinian priory was founded in 1150, the Scottish monks were absorbed into the established and those who refused to join were to be expelled. Not all of the priors are known. The most famous prior undoubtedly was the chronicler, Andrew de Wyntoun. Following more than four centuries of Augustinian monastic life and the resignation of the last prior, the Protestant king, James VI of Scotland, granted the priory to St Leonard's College, St Andrews.
Known abbots and priors
List of known Scottish abbots of St Serf's Inch Ronán, fl. mid-10th century Eógan, fl. 1128
List of known Augustinian priors of Loch Leven Roger, fl. 1183 x 1203-1212 x Simon, c. 1225-x 1235 G. [...?],Only known by initial. He was definitely the third prior. fl. 1235 Laurence, fl. 1268 Robert de Montrose, fl. 1386 x 1387 David Bell, 1387–1390 Thomas Mason, 1388–1389 Andrew de Wyntoun, 1390–1421 James Biset, 1391–1394 John Cameron, 1421 Andrew Newton, 1423 Robert Horsbruk, 1440–1460 David Ramsay, 1462 x 1466 Walter Monypenny, 1465–1500 John Wylie, 1465 Alexander Scrimgeour, 1483 Thomas Kynor [Kinnear], 1486 David Dickson, 1524–1525 Michael Donaldson, 1524–1525 John Winram, 1534 David Guthrie, 1544–1558 John Winram, 1552–1582
See also St Serf's Inch Priory
Notes
References 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), p. 93 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. 139–42