title: Abbot of Balmerino
text: # Abbot of Balmerino
  
  The Abbot of Balmerino (later Commendator of Balmerino) was the head of the Cistercian monastic community and lands of Balmerino Abbey, Fife, founded in 1227 x 1229 by monks from Melrose Abbey with the patronage of Ermengarde de Beaumont and King Alexander II of Scotland. The following are a list of abbots and commendators.
  
  ## List of abbots
  
  * Alan, 1229-1236
  * Radulf, 1236-1251
  * John, 1251-1252
  * Adam, 1252-1260
  * Adam, 1260-1270
  * William de Perisby, 1270
  * Thomas, 1270x1306
  * William, 1296
  * Alan, 1317
  * Hugh, x1369
  * Patrick, 1369-1380x
  * John Plater, x 1392
  * John Gugy, x 1394-1399 x 1402
  * John de Hailes, 1399x1402-1435x1436
  * Richard de Coventry, 1436-1464
  * William Cameron, 1436
  * Henry Mason, 1450
  * Walter Bunch, 1464
  * James Rait, 1466-1468 x 1469
  * William Bell, 1468-1483
  * Walter Bunch (again), 1482-1486 x 1504
  * Walter Ruch, 1483
  * Henry Knollis, 1484
  * Robert Fairweather, 1486
  * James Forman, 1504-1507
  * Robert Forrester, 1511-1559 x 1561
  * Henry Roche, 1532
  * John Stewart, 1535
  
  ## List of commendators
  
  * John Hay, 1561-1573
  * Henry Kinnear, 1574-1603
  * John Kinnear, 1582
  * Robert Auchmutie, 1604-1607
  