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A Glance at Pluscarden History - Pre Valliscaulian Pluscarden

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c.1070

St Margaret founds a monastery at Dunfermline with Benedictines from Canterbury.

c.1136
St David I, King of Scots, founds Urquhart Priory for Benedictines from Dunfermline.

1150
St David I founds Kinloss Abbey by Findhorn Bay for Cistercian monks from Melrose.

1193

Blessed Viard founds the Priory of Val des Choux.

1203
Abbey of Iona refounded for Benedictine monks.

1214-1249

Alexander II, King of Scots.

1228
A rising in Moray by the MacWilliams put down by the Earl of Buchan.

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