Prior Of Bath

Bath. 4 recorded holders. religious office ← all offices

The succession the rolls themselves record for this office, earliest first — a finding aid drawn from the roll text, not an authoritative fasti. Spelling variants of one holder now fold together where the volumes' own printed indexes attest them (“Burghers” and “Burghersh” are one man when the editors say so); the opposite case — one name hiding two men — is proposed from the same indexes and from matched identities, and separates only after human confirmation. Until then a shared name lists as one holder, and the list can be checked against printed succession lists (Fasti / VCH).

1. Walter Doune 1283 ×2
   • 1283-10-04 — William son of Warin, going to Ireland, nominating Peter son of Warin and Peter Dun until Michaelmas. Walter de Dune, prior of Bath, nominating Thomas Passavant…
2. Robert de Clopcote 1330 ×2
   • 1330-02-03 — Cancelled on payment. de Salop[ia], bishop of Bath and Wells, acknowledges that he owes Robert de Clopcote, prior of Bath, and to the convent of that place 6s. …
3. John de Ifford 1352 ×2
   • 1352-10-17 — late the wife of Richard de Rothyng and Giles de Sancto Johanne, gon, acknowledge that they owe to John son of Richard de Rothyng, of London, 1102. ; to be levi…
   • 1352-10-17 — Isabel late the wife of Richard de Rothyng and Giles de Sancto Johanne, son, acknowledge that they owe to John son of Richard de Rothyng, of London, 110I.; to b…
4. John Dunster 1481
   • 1481-06-12 — Pardon to John Sant, abbot of Abyndon, John Dunster, prior of Bath, John Twynyho, Walter Enderby, John Walshe and Thomas Sall for the acceptance and publication…

Ordered by the first date each holder appears with the office — where a holder is undated they sort last. Dates are the roll entries' own, not tenure dates.
Cite: “prior of Bath”, Reading the Rolls, https://readingtherolls.com/office/prior-of-bath, accessed 2026-07-25. Derived from the printed calendars of the medieval English royal records.