Robert de Keldeleth [SEP] position held
Robert de Keldeleth
Robert de Keldeleth (or Robert Kenleith) (died 1273) was a 13th-century Benedictine and then Cistercian abbot. He started his senior career as Abbot of Dunfermline (1240–52), becoming Chancellor of Scotland later in the 1240s. He took a prominent role as a supporter of Alan Durward during the minority of Alexander III of Scotland, and appears to have lost the Chancellorship as result. Following his resignation of the abbacy of Dunfermline, he became a Cistercian monk at Newbattle Abbey while continuing a comparatively
1216-1219
- Adam de Harkarres, 1219-46
- Matthew, 1246-61
- Adam of Maxton, 1261-67
- John de Edrom (or Ederham), 1267-68 x 69
- Robert de Keldeleth, 1269-73
- Patrick de Selkirk, 1273–96
- William de Fogo, 1310–1329
- Thomas de Soutra, 1333 x 1335-x1342
- William de St Andrews, 1342–1376
- Gilbert de Roxburgh, 1391–1392
- David Benyng (or Binning), 1394–1422