The Prior of May then Prior of Pittenweem (later Commendator of Pittenweem) was the religious superior of the Benedictine monks of Isle of May Priory, which later moved to the mainland became called Pittenweem Priory. The priory was originally based on the Isle of May, but was moved by 1318 to its nearby mainland site of Pittenweem, Fife, passing from the overlordship of Reading Abbey (Benedictine) to St Andrews Cathedral Priory (Augustinian). The following is a list of priors and commendators: __NOTOC__

List of priors Achard, 1141x1150 Robert, 1161 x 1162-1165 x 1166 William, 1166x1171 Hugh de Mortimer, 1198–1205 John, 1206–1215 Richard, 1221–1222 Radulf, 1233 John, 1248-1251Became Abbot of Balmerino. William, 1251 x 1260 Hugh, 1260–1269 William de Gloucester, 1269–1270 Thomas de Houburn, x 1306 Jordan, 1309 Martin, 1313–1318 Adam de Pilmor, 1345 Robert de Anderston, c. 1380 Robert de Leuchars, 1405 William Nory, 1402–1408; 1409-1419 x 1421 James de Haldeston, 1407-1418Became Prior of St Andrews. John Litstar, 1418Became Prior of St Andrews. Thomas de Camera (Chalmers), 1419 x 1421-1447Became Abbot of Scone. William Stury, 1421 James Kennedy, 1447-1465As Bishop of St Andrews. Walter Monypenny, 1465-1467Was Prior of Loch Leven. John Woodman, 1465-1477Postulated to Bishopric of Ross. Patrick Graham, 1466-1478Bishop of St Andrews. Walter Davidson, 1477–1479, 1489 Thomas Kymner, 1486 William Scheves, 1487-1497As Archbishop of St Andrews.

List of commendators Andrew Forman, 1495-1515 x 1521As Archbishop of St Andrews. Robert Forman, 1516–1526 John Roul, 1525–1553 Adam Blackadder, 1531 John de Moncreif, 1550–1551 James Stewart, 1550-1567As Commendator of St Andrews. Sir James Balfour of Pittendreich, 1567–1573 James Haliburton, 1575–1583 William Stewart of Houston, 1583-1603 x 1605

See also Isle of May Priory Pittenweem Priory Adrian of May

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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. 94–5 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. 143–9