Aberdour Castle
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| Creation time : | around 1200 |
| Castle type : | Niederungsburg |
| Conservation status: | partly in good condition |
| Geographical location | 56 ° 3 '18.7 " N , 3 ° 17' 53.9" W |
Aberdour Castle is a castle in the historic village of Easter Aberdour in Scotland management unit ( Council Area ) Fife in the east of the Central Lowlands . The castle, which was built around 1200, is the oldest surviving castle in Scotland that can still be dated , together with Castle Sween, which was built around the same time .
history
In the late 12th century, the foundation stone of today's castle was laid with the construction of a two-story tower house by the Norman knight family de Mortimer . The Mortimers had been recruited with many other compatriots and peers of David I to increase his military clout. Presumably the first builder and lord of the castle, William de Mortimer has come down to us from the documents we have received about a legal dispute that he led in 1180 with the abbot of Inchcolm Abbey . In the course of the 13th century the trail of the Mortimers is lost.
In 1314 King Robert the Bruce handed over the castle and rule to his deserved follower Thomas Randolph, 1st Earl of Moray , from his second-born son John Randolph, 3rd Earl of Moray, in 1342 they passed to the powerful and widely ramified Douglas clan in the person of Sir William Douglas, Lord of Liddesdale ; According to other sources, it did not pass to Sir James Douglas of Dalkeith until 1351 . The castle remained in the Douglas' family until the 20th century, from 1458 in the person of the Earl of Morton . James Douglas, 4th Earl of Morton , was embroiled in the turmoil surrounding the tragic Queen Mary Scots .
From around the 1590s under the rule of William Douglas, 6th Earl of Morton , it replaced Loch Leven Castle as the ancestral seat of the Mortons. Under his grandson and successor William Douglas, 7th Earl of Morton , the castle was extensively extended by a wing in the Renaissance style in the first half of the 17th century , and the fortress achieved the greatest splendor.
When Robert Douglas, 12th Earl of Morton, acquired the neighboring Aberdour House in 1725 and settled there in a more contemporary way, Aberdour Castle fell into ruin, finally deprived of any practical significance.
Web links
- Official site on Historic Scotland (English)
- Listed Building Entry . In: Historic Scotland .
- Aberdour Castle on Undiscovered Scotland (English)
- Aberdour Castle on Scottish Castles (German)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Aberdour Castle on schottland-wegweiser.de , accessed October 27, 2013
- ↑ Aberdour Castle , undiscoveredscotland.co.uk, accessed December 16, 2013
- ↑ www.scotland4all.com , accessed August 25, 2017.
- ↑ Listed Building - Entry . In: Historic Scotland .
- ↑ Listed Building - Entry . In: Historic Scotland .