Robert Bellentyne of Holyrood Abbot

BELLENDEN, LORD BELLENDEN OF BROUGHTON

BELLENDEN is a name which is found in a variety of forms: Bellentyne, Ballantyne, Ballindean, and Bannatyne, are all variations of the same name. In 1361 John de Bennachtyne de Oorrokis resigned the lands of Niddry in the county of Edinburgh:1 but the first known ancestor of the family with which we have now to deal is JOHN BELLENTYNE, probably a near relation of Robert Bellentyne, Abbot of Holyrood (1484-1500) ; died before 1486, leaving issue : —

References

1. 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 Volume II. Page 61. < Archive.Org >
2. http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=lcompagna...