The Abbot of Arbroath or Abbot of Aberbrothok (and later Commendator) was the head of the Tironensian Benedictine monastic community of Arbroath Abbey, Angus, Scotland, founded under the patronage of King William of Scotland from Kelso Abbey and dedicated to St Thomas of Canterbury, Thomas Becket. The abbot, John Gedy, was granted the mitre on 26 June 1396.^[1][2] Arbroath Abbey became the wealthiest and most powerful abbey in later medieval Scotland.

According to the poem "The Inchcape Rock" by Robert Southey, John Gedy, then Abbot of Aberbrothok, fixed a bell to the inchcape rock in the 1300s to warn mariners of the perilous rock.

The following is a list of abbots and commendators.

• Reginald, 1178–79
• Henry, 1179–1207
• Gilbert, 1208–19 x 1229
• Radulf de Lamley, 1225–39^[3]
• Adam, 1240–46
• Walter, 1247–58 x
• Robert, 1261–67
• Sabinus, 1267 ?
• John, 1268–70
• William, 1276–84^[4]
• Henry, 1285–96
• Nicholas, 1296 x 99-1301^[5]
• John de Anegus, 1303–09
• Bernard, 1310–28
• Geoffrey, 1329–47
• William, 1348–66
• John, 1370–84
• John Gedy, 1384–1410
• Walter Paniter, 1410–49
• Robert Bowmaker, 1419
• Richard Guthrie, 1449–55
• Malcolm Brydy, 1456–70
• Richard Guthrie, 1470–12
• Hugh Douglas, 1470
• Francis Gonzaga, 1472
• Alexander Scrymgeour, 1472
• Patrick Graham, 1473–76
• George Boyce, 1472–82
• William Bonkil, 1482–84
• David Lichton, 1484–1503
• James Stewart, 1503–04
• George Hepburn, 1504–13
• Gavin Douglas, 1514
• Andrew Forman, 1514
• James Stewart, 1514–17
• Peter de Accoltis, 1517
• James Beaton, 1517–23 x 1524
• David Beaton, 1524–45
• James Beaton II, 1545–51
• George Douglas, 1546
• John, Lord Hamilton 1551–68
• George Douglas, (again) 1568–72, became Bishop of Moray
• John, Lord Hamilton (again), 1573–79
• Esmé Stuart, 1579–83

• Cowan, Ian B. & Easson, David E., Medieval Religious Houses: Scotland With an Appendix on the Houses in the Isle of Man, Second Edition, (London, 1976)
• Summerson, Henry, "Gedy, John (fl. 1370–1401?)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004, accessed 27 Jan 2009
• Watt, D. E .R. & Shead, N. F. (eds.), The Heads of Religious Houses in Scotland from the 12th to the 16th Centuries (The Scottish Records Society, New Series, Volume 24), (Edinburgh, 2001)

v t e Senior churchmen of Medieval Scotland (post-1100)
Archbishops	Glasgow (1492) St Andrews (1472)
Bishops	Aberdeen Argyll Brechin Caithness Dunblane Dunkeld Galloway Glasgow Isles (Sodor) Moray Orkney Ross St Andrews
Archdeacons	Aberdeen Argyll Brechin Caithness Dunblane Dunkeld Galloway Glasgow Isles (Sodor) Lothian Moray Orkney Ross St Andrews Shetland Teviotdale
Abbots	Arbroath Balmerino Cambuskenneth Coupar Angus Crossraguel Culross Deer Dercongal (Holywood) Dryburgh Dundrennan Dunfermline Fearn Glenluce Holyrood Inchaffray Inchcolm Iona Jedburgh Kelso (Selkirk) Kilwinning Kinloss Lindores Melrose Newbattle Paisley Saddell Scone Soulseat Sweetheart Tongland
Priors	Ardchattan Beauly Blantyre Canonbie Coldingham Fogo Fyvie Inchmahome Lesmahagow May (Pittenweem) Monymusk Oronsay Perth Pluscarden Restenneth St Andrews St Mary's Isle St Serf's Inch, Loch Leven Strathfillan Urquhart Whithorn