The Prior of Loch Leven was the head of lands and of the community 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 St Serf's Inch Priory

St Serf's Inch Priory

The St Serf's Inch Priory was a community of Augustinian canons based, initially at least, on St Serf's Inch in Loch Leven.It was founded from St Andrews Cathedral Priory at the instigation of King David I of Scotland in 1150...

, Loch Leven

Loch Leven

Loch Leven is a fresh water loch in Perth and Kinross council area, central Scotland.Roughly triangular, the loch is about 6 km at its longest. The burgh of Kinross lies at its western end. Loch Leven Castle lies on an island a short way offshore...

 (aka Portmoak Priory). There was a Scottish Céli Dé (or Culdee

Culdee

Céli Dé or Culdees were originally members of ascetic Christian monastic and eremitical communities of Ireland, Scotland and England in the Middle Ages. The term is used of St. John the Apostle, of a missioner from abroad recorded in the Annals of the Four Masters at the year 806, and of Óengus...

) establishment there in the first half of the 12th century, allegedly found by Bruide, son of Dargart

Bridei IV of the Picts

Bruide mac Der-Ilei was king of the Picts. He became king when Taran was deposed in 697.He was the brother of his successor Nechtan. It has been suggested that Bruide's father was Dargart mac Finguine of the Cenél Comgaill, a kingroup in Dál Riata who controlled Cowal and the Isle of Bute...

, King of the Picts (696–706). When the Augustinian priory was founded in 1150, the Scottish monks were absorbed into the established and those who refused to join were to be expelled. Not all of the priors are known. The most famous prior undoubtedly was the chronicler, Andrew de Wyntoun. Following more than four centuries of Augustinian monastic life and the resignation of the last prior, the Protestant king, James VI of Scotland, granted the priory to St Leonard's College, St Andrews

St Andrews

St Andrews is a university town and former royal burgh on the east coast of Fife in Scotland. The town is named after Saint Andrew the Apostle.St Andrews has a population of 16,680, making this the fifth largest settlement in Fife....

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List of known Scottish abbots of St Serf's Inch

• Ronán, fl. mid-10th century
• Eógan, fl. 1128

List of known Augustinian priors of Loch Leven

• Roger, fl. 1183 x 1203-1212 x
• Simon
  Simon, Prior of St Andrews
  Simon was a 13th-century Augustinian canon based in the Kingdom of Scotland.As a canon of St Andrews Cathedral Priory, he was elected prior of St Andrews in either 1211 or 1212. Simon, like his predecessor Thomas, was said by Inchcolm historian Walter Bower to have fallen out with the brothers of...
  
  , c. 1225-x 1235
• G. [...?],, fl. 1235
• Laurence, fl. 1268
• Robert de Montrose, fl. 1386 x 1387
• David Bell, 1387–1390
• Thomas Mason, 1388–1389
• Andrew de Wyntoun, 1390–1421
  • James Biset, 1391–1394
• John Cameron, 1421
• Andrew Newton, 1423
• Robert Horsbruk, 1440–1460
• David Ramsay, 1462 x 1466
• Walter Monypenny, 1465–1500
• John Wylie, 1465
• Alexander Scrimgeour, 1483
• Thomas Kynor [Kinnear], 1486
• David Dickson, 1524–1525
• Michael Donaldson, 1524–1525
• John Winram
  John Winram
  John Winram was a 16th century Scottish priest and ecclesiastical reformer. He was born in 1492, the son of one James Winram of Ratho and his wife Margaret Wilkie...
  
  , 1534
• David Guthrie, 1544–1558
• John Winram
  John Winram
  John Winram was a 16th century Scottish priest and ecclesiastical reformer. He was born in 1492, the son of one James Winram of Ratho and his wife Margaret Wilkie...
  
  , 1552–1582