Balmerino Abbey

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Balmerino Abbey
Monastery Information
Order   Cistercian
Mother House   Melrose Abbey
Established   1229
Disestablished by   1603
Diocese   Diocese of St Andrews
Controlled churches   Balmerino; Barry; Cultrain; Logie-Murdoch
People
Founder   Ermengarde de Beaumont

Balmerino Abbey (or St Edward's Abbey, Balmerino) was a Cistercian monastic community founded in 1227 x 1229 by monks from Melrose Abbey with the patronage of Ermengarde de Beaumont and King Alexander II of Scotland. It remained a daughter house of Melrose. It had approximately 20 monks at the beginning of the 16th century, but declined in that century. In December 1547 it was burned by an English force, and allegedly burned again in 1559 by Scottish Protestants. In 1606 and 1607 it was created as a secular lordship for James Elphinstone, 1st Lord Balmerino.

  • 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. 72-3
  • 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. 12-15

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Cistercian monasteries in Scotland

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 (1140) 

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.

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