Robert I, Prior of St Andrews

Robert
Ruins of St Andrews Cathedral Priory
Born	c. 1100 Unknown
Died	1160 St Andrews
Occupation	Augustinian Prior
Title	Prior of St Andrews

Robert I or Robert of Nostell (died 1160) was a 12th-century Anglo-Norman Augustinian churchman, the first prior of St Andrews.

Robert came to the Kingdom of Scotland from Nostell Priory as head of a group of Nostell canons establishing St Andrews Cathedral Priory.^[1] He had been invited by Robert, Bishop of St Andrews, himself an ex-member of Nostell.^[2]

Robert was probably established at St Andrews in 1140, but certainly by 14 May 1144.^[3] Robert had come directly from Nostell, not via Scone Abbey.^[4]

Walter Bower, writing in the 15th century, said that Robert died in 1162 and had charge of the priory for twenty-two years.^[5] According to the earlier and more reliable Melrose Chronicle, Robert actually died in 1160.^[6]

Notes

1. MacQueen, MacQueen and Watt, Scotichronicon, vol. 3, p. 494; Watt and Shead, Heads of Religious Houses, p. 187
2. MacQueen, MacQueen and Watt, Scotichronicon, vol. 3, p. 494
3. Watt and Shead, Heads of Religious Houses, p. 187
4. MacQueen, MacQueen and Watt, Scotichronicon, vol. 3, pp. 494–95
5. MacQueen, MacQueen and Watt, Scotichronicon, vol. 3, p. 417
6. MacQueen, MacQueen and Watt, Scotichronicon, vol. 3, p. 495

References

• MacQueen, John; MacQueen, Winifred; Watt, D. E. R., eds. (1995), Scotichronicon by Walter Bower, in Latin and English: Volume 3, Books V and VI, Scotichronicon by Walter Bower: New Edition in Latin and English with Notes and Indexes (General Editor D. E. R. Watt), Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, ISBN 1-873644-49-3
• Watt, D. E. R.; Shead, N. F., eds. (2001), The Heads of Religious Houses in Scotland from Twelfth to Sixteenth Centuries, The Scottish Record Society, New Series, Volume 24 (Revised ed.), Edinburgh: The Scottish Record Society, ISBN 0-902054-18-X, ISSN 0143-9448