John, Bishop of Glasgow, and King David I of Scotland grant lands at Lesmahagow, in modern South Lanarkshire, to Kelso Abbey with which to establish a new Tironensian Benedictine priory.
The Tironensian Order, or the Order of Tiron, is a Roman Catholic monastic order named after the location of the mother abbey (Tiron Abbey, French: Abbaye de la Sainte-Trinité de Tiron, established in 1109) in the woods of Tiron (sometimes Thiron) in Perche, some thirty-five miles west of Chartres in France).
The monks are nicknamed "Grey Monks" because of their gray robes, which their spiritual cousins, the monks of Savigny, also wear.
