Prior of Beauly
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The Prior of Beauly was the head of the Valliscaulian monastic community and lands of Beauly Priory
, Beauly
, Inverness-shire
. It was probably founded in 1230. It became Cistercian on April 16, 1510. The following are a list of priors and commendators:
Beauly Priory
Beauly Priory was a Valliscaulian monastic community located at "Insula de Achenbady", now Beauly, Inverness-shire. It was probably founded in 1230. It is not known for certain who the founder was, different sources giving Alexander II of Scotland, John Byset, and both...
, Beauly
Beauly
Beauly is a town of the Scottish county of Inverness-shire, on the River Beauly, 10 miles west of Inverness by the Far North railway line. Its population was 855 in 1901...
, Inverness-shire
Inverness-shire
The County of Inverness or Inverness-shire was a general purpose county of Scotland, with the burgh of Inverness as the county town, until 1975, when, under the Local Government Act 1973, the county area was divided between the two-tier Highland region and the unitary Western Isles. The Highland...
. It was probably founded in 1230. It became Cistercian on April 16, 1510. The following are a list of priors and commendators:
List of priors
- Geoffrey, 1312
- Robert, 1341-1357
- Simon, 1362
- Maurice, 1336x1372
- Thomas, x 1407
- Matthew alias Walter, 1407-1411
- Cristin MacDonald (Donaldson), 1411
- Gilbert MacPherson, 1430
- Alexander Fraser, 1430-1471
- John Finlay, 1472-1480
- Hugh Fraser, x 1498
- Thomas Ramsay, 1498
- Dugald (Callus) McRory, 1498-1514
- Nicholas Brachane, 1525-1528
- James Haswell, 1528
- David Murray, 1528
- James de Baldoven, 1529-1531
List of commendators
- Robert ReidRobert Reid (bishop)Robert Reid was abbot of Kinloss, commendator-prior of Beauly, and bishop of Orkney. He was one of the greatest of the bishops of St Magnus Cathedral, Kirkwall, Scotland, and his legacy was the founding of the University of Edinburgh....
, 1531-1553 - Walter Reid, ?1553-1572
- John Fraser, 1573-1579
- Thomas Fraser, 1579
- Adam Cuming, 1581-1607
- Alexander Douglas, 1606
- James Hay de Kingask, 1607-1612
- George Strang, 1612