• The Abbot of Newbattle (later Commendator of Newbattle) was the head of the Cistercian monastic community of Newbattle Abbey, Midlothian. It was founded...
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    Newbattle Abbey was a Cistercian monastery near the village of Newbattle in Midlothian, Scotland, which subsequently become a stately home and then an...
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  • who became abbot of Newbattle, and then joined the reformers. Kerr was the second son of Sir Andrew Kerr of Cessford, by Agnes, daughter of Robert Crichton...
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  • Adam of Harcarse (died 1245) was a 13th-century Cistercian Abott. He served as Abbot of Newbattle between 1216 and 1219 and then Abbot of Melrose from...
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    abbacy of Rievaulx. Former cellarer. Died 1219. Formerly Abbot of Newbattle. Succeeded on 6 August; 15th Abbot. Died probably in 1246. Former cellarer of Melrose...
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  • of Ker of Cessford. He was the son of Mark Kerr, abbot of Newbattle Abbey, Midlothian, and Helen Leslie, sister of the Earl of Rothes. The House of Kerr...
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  • Thomas Livingston (category Scottish abbots)
    of Basel and advisor to Kings James I and James II of Scotland. He was additionally Abbot-elect of Newbattle, Abbot of Dundrennan, nominal Bishop of Dunkeld...
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  • Leslie, had several children with Mark Kerr, the abbot of Newbattle, including Mark Kerr, 1st Earl of Lothian. Burke, 145–146. The Peerage gives her birth...
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    as the witness to a charter by John, Abbot of Newbattle in favor of William Bisset. He was also a supporter of John Balliol as competitor for the Scottish...
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  • 29 November 1243 when he is styled "Prior of Newbattle" (deputy Abbot of Newbattle) and elected to be Abbot of Coupar Angus. According to Alexander Myln's...
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