The Abbot of Rievaulx was the head of the Cistercian monastic community of Rievaulx Abbey, founded in 1131 by Walter l'Espec in North Yorkshire, northern England. The Abbots of Rievaulx were amongst the most powerful Christian leaders in northern England until the dissolution of the monastery by Henry VIII of England in 1538.
St. William I, 1131, died 1145
Maurice, 1145
Waltheof
Ailred, 1147, 1160, 1164, died 1167
Sylvanus, occurs 1170 (previously Abbot of Dundrennan)
Ernald, 1192, resigned 1199 (previously Abbot of Melrose)
William Punchard, occurs 1201–2, died 1203
Geoffrey (or perhaps Godfrey), 1204
Warin, occurs 1208, died 1211
Helyas, resigned 1215
Henry, 1215, died 1216
William III (William de Courcy), 1216, died 1223
Roger, 1224 to 1235, resigned 1239
Leonias, 1239, died 1240
Adam de Tilletai, 1240–60.
Thomas Stangrief, occurs 1268
William IV (de Ellerbeck), 1268–75
William Daneby, 1275–85
Thomas I, 1286–91
Henry II, 1301
Robert, 1303
Peter, 1307
Henry, occurs 1307
Thomas II, 1315
Richard, occurs 3 June 1317
William VI, 1318
William de Inggleby, occurs 1322
John I, 1327
William VIII (de Langton), 1332–4
Richard, 1349
John II, occurs 1363
William IX, 1369–80
John III, occurs 1380
William X, 1409
John IV, occurs 1417
William (XI) Brymley, 1419
Henry (III) Burton, 1423–29
William (XII) Spenser, 1436–49
John (V) Inkeley, 1449
William (XIII) Spenser, 1471, 1487
John (VI) Burton, 1489–1510
William (XIV) Helmesley, 1513–28
Edward Kirkby, 1530–1533
Rowland Blyton 1533–8
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