The Abbot of Arbroath or Abbot of Aberbrothok (and later Commendator) was the head of the Tironensian Benedictine monastic community of Arbroath Abbey...
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Arbroath Abbey and addressed to the Pope the Declaration of Arbroath, drafted by the Abbot of the time, Bernard. This detailed the services which their...
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have been written in Arbroath Abbey by Bernard of Kilwinning (or of Linton), then Chancellor of Scotland and Abbot of Arbroath, and sealed by fifty-one...
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Arbroath Abbey, in the Scottish town of Arbroath, was founded in 1178 by King William the Lion for a group of Tironensian Benedictine monks from Kelso...
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Abbot of Holyrood and from 1526 the Bishop of Dunkeld ????: Robert Colvill, of Crawford 1542: David Beaton, Abbot of Arbroath, Cardinal Archbishop of...
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George Hepburn (bishop) (category Abbots of Arbroath)
son of Adam Hepburn and brother to Patrick Hepburn, the first Earl of Bothwell. He was a churchman, and served firstly as postulate Abbot of Arbroath, before...
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Robert Southey. Published in 1802, it tells the story of a 14th-century attempt by the Abbot of Arbroath ("Aberbrothock") to install a warning bell on Inchcape...
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established as Abbot of Kilwinning in 1296, disappearing for a decade before re-emerging as Chancellor of Scotland then Abbot of Arbroath. A senior figure...
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25 July 1544, David Beaton, Abbot of Arbroath and Archbishop of St Andrews, granted the lands of Colliston, Knives, Park of Conon, and Guthrie Hill, to...
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David Beaton (category Abbots of Arbroath)
In 1525 David Beaton returned from France and took a seat as Lord Abbot of Arbroath Abbey in the Scottish Parliament. In 1528 the King named him Lord...
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