Prior of Perth

The Prior of Perth was the head of Perth Charterhouse, the Carthusian monastic house located near Perth. It was founded in 1429, and finally suppressed in 1602. The following is a list of priors and prior-commendators:

List of priors and prior-commendators

List of priors

List of commendator-priors

Notes

  1. ↑ Died before taking office.
  2. ↑ In opposition to Forman; said to have been abducted by Forman, sometime after he was granted royal protection on 9 August 1554.
  3. ↑ Spent early years litigation with Galloway. In his time the monastery was destroyed by reformers on 11 May 1559. Fled overseas in April 1567.
  4. ↑ Illegitimate son of James V. Was styling himself prior in 1569; may have regarded himself as Forman's successor, but received a pension instead.
  5. ↑ Peter D. Anderson, Robert Stewart, Earl of Orkney, Lord Shetland (Edinburgh: John Donald, 1982), pp. 156–157.
  6. ↑ Monastery suppressed by the crown on 8 January 1602.

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