Patrick de Abernethy

Patrick, styled * son and heir ' in the charter to the Canons of St. Andrews above mentioned. Very little is known about him, and he perhaps died vita patris ; at all events he was dead before 1254.

References

• The Scots peerage : founded on Wood's ed. of Sir Robert Douglas's Peerage of Scotland; containing an historical and genealogical account of the nobility of that kingdom by Paul, James Balfour, Sir, 1846-1931 Publication date 1904-1914. Vol. 7. Page 398-399. Archive.Org
• http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~mainegenie/genealogy/ABERNETH.htm
• ON SCHOLASTIC OFFICES IN THE SCOTTISH CHURCH IN THE TWELFTH AND THIRTEENTH CENTURIES. APPENDIX TO PREFACE. Page 63. PDF Not every abbot, it has been seen, was a monk, nor did every abbot always take or receive the name of abbot. It is as ' Horm the son of Hugh,' ' Orm of Abernithi,' ' Laurence the son of Ilorm,' * Laurence of Abernethi,' * Patrick de Abernethyn.' ' Patrick the son of Laurence,' that the lay abbots of Abernethy meet us in record. Their monastic character and style appear only when it is necessary that the King or the Bishop should distinguish the peculiar tenure of their inheritance.