Scolland

Scolland of Canterbury, also known as Scotland, was the abbot of St Augustine's Abbey during the reign of William the Conqueror.

He was sent as an ambassador to Rome in 1073 where he advocated for Augustine's role as apostle to the English, a doctrine that greatly assisted the case for Canterbury primacy.

[6] Scolland is mentioned in Domesday Book, where he is listed as tenant-in-chief of numerous small lots in Kent, and he witnessed a number of deeds of William the Conqueror.

[8] The abbot had been head monk in the scriptorium of Abbey of Mont Saint-Michel and carried many of the techniques developed in France to Canterbury.

[13] Historian Richard Gameson has suggested that a monk depicted in the Bayeux Tapestry and pointing at the Abbey of Mont Saint-Michel is Abbot Scolland.