Deer Abbey
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Deer Abbey was a Cistercian monastery in Buchan, Scotland. It was founded by 1219 with the patronage William Comyn, jure uxoris Earl of Buchan. There was an earlier community of Scottish monks or priests. The notitiae on the margins of the Book of Deer record grants made to the Scottish religious community in the 12th century and a claim that it was founded by Saint Columba and Saint Drostan. The old religious community was probably absorbed by the new foundation. The history of the abbey after the 1210s is obscure until the 1500s, when it was beginning to be secularized. The abbey was turned into a secular lordship for Commendator Robert Keith II (becoming Lord Altrie) in 1587.
[edit] Bibliography
- Cowan, Ian B. & Easson, David E., Medieval Religious Houses: Scotland With an Appendix on the Houses in the Isle of Man, Second Edition, (London, 1976), pp. 47, 74
- Watt, D.E.R. & Shead, N.F. (eds.), The Heads of Religious Houses in Scotland from the 12th to the 16th Centuries, The Scottish Records Society, New Series, Volume 24, (Edinburgh, 2001), pp. 54-8
[edit] See also
- Abbot of Deer, for a list of abbots and commendators of the Cistercians monastery
MELROSE FILIATION (from Rievaulx)
Balmerino Abbey (1227) | Coupar Angus Abbey (1164) | Culross Abbey (1217) * | Deer Abbey (1219) * | Holmcultram Abbey (1150) ** | Kinloss Abbey (1150) | Melrose Abbey (1136) | Newbattle Abbey
DUNDRENNAN FILIATION (from Rievaulx)
Dundrennan Abbey (1142) | Glenluce Abbey (1192) | Sweetheart Abbey (1273)
MELLIFONT FILIATION (from Cîteaux)
Saddell Abbey (1207) | [ ? Soulseat Abbey (1148) ] ****
* Founded by Kinloss Abbey.
** In England, but at the time of foundation (1150), part of the territory of David I, King of Scots.
*** Meaning from Mellifont Abbey in Ireland, founded in 1142.
**** If it existed, it was shortly afterwards replaced by a Premonstratensian establishment.
