Abbot of Sweetheart

The Abbot of Sweetheart (later Commendator of Sweetheart; also Abbot of New Abbey) was the head of the Cistercian monastic community of Sweetheart Abbey, in the ancient province of Galloway in the present area of Dumfries and Galloway, founded by monks from Dundrennan Abbey with the patronage of Derbhfhorghaill inghean Ailein (a.k.a. "Dervorguilla Balliol"), Lady of Galloway, about 1275. The following are a list of abbots and commendators. __NOTOC__

List of abbots Henry, S.O.Cist., 1273 - 1280New Abbey from the Catholic Encyclopedia 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

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