title: Abbot of Inchcolm
text: # Abbot of Inchcolm
  
  The Abbot of Inchcolm, or until 1235, the Prior of Inchcolm, was the head of the Augustinian monastic community of Inchcolm (Innse Choluim; Latin Insula Columbae; Lowland Scots: St Comb's Isle).
  
  ## List of position holders
  
  ### Priors of Inchcolm
  
  * Brice (Máel Brigte?), fl. 1162x1178
  * Roger, fl. 1163x1178
  * Walter (I), x1179-1210
  * Michael, 1210-1211
  * Simon, 1211-?
  * William, ?-1224
  * Nigel of Jedburgh, 1224-x1228
  * Henry, x1228-1243
  
  ### Abbots of Inchcolm
  
  * Henry, promoted to abbot in 1235; resigned in 1243
  * Thomas, 1243/4-1268
  * William, 1268-1277x
  * Brice, fl. 1296
  * None of the abbots are known until:
  * John Dersy, died 1394
  * Laurence, x1399-1417
  * Walter Bower, 1417-1449
  * John Kers, 1449-1460x5
  * Michael Harwar, 1460x5-x1490
  * Alexander Scrimgeour, x1490-1491
  * Robert de Fontibus, 1491-1492
  * Thomas Inglis, 1492-1505
  * John Elwand (Elliot), 1505-x1532
  * Richard Abercromby, 1532-1543
  
  ### Titular abbots/commendators
  
  * James Stewart, 1544-1581;(after 1558 frequently called commendator); died 1590
  * Henry Stewart, died 1612
  