The Abbot of Jedburgh was the head of the Augustinian

Augustinians

The term Augustinians, named after Saint Augustine of Hippo , applies to two separate and unrelated types of Catholic religious orders:...

 canons

Canon (priest)

A canon is a priest or minister who is a member of certain bodies of the Christian clergy subject to an ecclesiastical rule ....

 of Jedburgh Abbey

Jedburgh Abbey

Jedburgh Abbey, a ruined Augustinian abbey which was founded in the 12th century is situated in the town of Jedburgh, in the Scottish Borders just north of the border with England at Carter Bar...

, Roxburghshire

Roxburghshire

Roxburghshire or the County of Roxburgh is a registration county of Scotland. It borders Dumfries to the west, Selkirk to the north-west, and Berwick to the north. To the south-east it borders Cumbria and Northumberland in England.It was named after the Royal Burgh of Roxburgh...

. It was founded by King David I of Scotland

David I of Scotland

David I or Dabíd mac Maíl Choluim was a 12th-century ruler who was Prince of the Cumbrians and later King of the Scots...

 in 1138, and David's grandson and successor Máel Coluim IV

Malcolm IV of Scotland

Malcolm IV , nicknamed Virgo, "the Maiden" , King of Scots, was the eldest son of Earl Henry and Ada de Warenne...

 ensured its promotion to the status of abbey before 1156. The position was secularized in the 16th century, and in 1606 turned into a secular lordship for the last commendator, Alexander Home, now earl of Home

Earl of Home

The title Earl of Home was created in 1605 in the Peerage of Scotland for Alexander Home of that Ilk, who was already the 6th Lord Home.The Earl of Home holds the subsidiary titles of Lord Home , and Lord Dunglass , in the Peerage of Scotland; and Baron Douglas, of Douglas in the County of Lanark ...

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The following is a list of priors, abbots and commendators:

List of abbots

• Osbert (same), 1153 x 1156-1174
• Richard, 1174-1192
• Radulf, 1192-1205
• Hugh, 1205-1209x1211
• Peter, 1220
• Henry, 1239
• Philip, 1239-1249
• Robert de Gyseburne, 1249
• Nicholas de Prenderlathe, 1249-1275.
• John Morel, 1275-1296, 1299 ?
• William de Jarum, 1296-1319
• Robert Marshal, 1319-1332
• John de Eskdale, 1338-1354
• Robert, 1358-1392
• John de Dryden, 1408
• Thomas de Eskdale, 1411
• Walter Pyle, 1422-1455
• John de Bolden, 1426
• Andrew Bontoun (or Bolton), 1463-1464 x 1468
• John Woodman
  John Woodman
  John Woodman [Wodman] was a 15th century churchman based in the Kingdom of Scotland. Woodman was a canon of the diocese of St Andrews, and as such was locally made Prior of Pittenweem on the death of the previous prior, James Kennedy, Bishop of St Andrews; however, he was opposed by one Walter...
  
  , 1468-1476
• Robert Turnbull, 1476-1478
• John Hall, 1478-1479
• William Forester, 1480/81-1484
• Hugh Douglas, 1482
• Robert Archison (Atkinson), 1483-1488
• Thomas Cranston, 1484-1501
• Robert Blackadder
  Robert Blackadder
  Robert Blackadder was a medieval Scottish cleric, diplomat and politician, who was abbot of Melrose, bishop-elect of Aberdeen and bishop of Glasgow; when the last was elevated to archiepiscopal status in 1492, he became the first ever archbishop of Glasgow...
  
  , 1484, 1502-1505
• Henry Alanson, 1505-1512
• John Lynne (or John Home), 1512-1549