The Prior of May then Prior of Pittenweem (later Commendator of Pittenweem) was the religious superior of the Benedictine monks of Isle of May Priory, which later moved to the mainland became called Pittenweem Priory. The priory was originally based on the Isle of May, but was moved by 1318 to its nearby mainland site of Pittenweem, Fife, passing from the overlordship of Reading Abbey (Benedictine) to St Andrews Cathedral Priory (Augustinian). The following is a list of priors and commendators:
Achard, 1141x1150
Robert, 1161 x 1162-1165 x 1166
William, 1166x1171
Hugh de Mortimer, 1198–1205
John, 1206–1215
Richard, 1221–1222
Radulf, 1233
John, 1248-1251
William, 1251 x 1260
Hugh, 1260–1269
William de Gloucester, 1269–1270
Thomas de Houburn, x 1306
Jordan, 1309
Martin, 1313–1318
Adam de Pilmor, 1345
Robert de Anderston, c. 1380
Robert de Leuchars, 1405
William Nory, 1402–1408; 1409-1419 x 1421
James de Haldeston, 1407-1418
John Litstar, 1418
Thomas de Camera (Chalmers), 1419 x 1421-1447
William Stury, 1421
James Kennedy, 1447-1465
Walter Monypenny, 1465-1467John Woodman, 1465-1477
Patrick Graham, 1466-1478
Walter Davidson, 1477–1479, 1489
Thomas Kymner, 1486
William Scheves, 1487-1497
Andrew Forman, 1495-1515 x 1521
Robert Forman, 1516–1526
John Roul, 1525–1553
Adam Blackadder, 1531
John de Moncreif, 1550–1551
James Stewart, 1550-1567
Sir James Balfour of Pittendreich, 1567–1573
James Haliburton, 1575–1583
William Stewart of Houston, 1583-1603 x 1605
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