Cardoness Castle

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Cardoness Castle

Cardoness Castle is a tower house directly southwest of the Gatehouse of Fleet in the Scottish administrative division Dumfries and Galloway . The well-preserved 15th century Hausa originally belonged to the MacCullochs of Myreton . They gave up the castle in the late 17th century after the execution of Sir Godfrey MacCulloch for the murder of a neighbor from Clan Gordon . The building is now managed by Historic Scotland and is a Scheduled Monument .

history

1170 verlehnte King Malcolm IV. , The lands of Anwoth to David FitzTeri , a gentlemen from Cumbria , in Boreland , near the present castle, a moth had built. In 1220 Nicholas de Kerdenes and his wife Cicely were in dispute with Dundrennan Abbey over Cicely's dowry; de Kerdenes later even phoned the Pope. In 1277 Bertram de Kerdennes witnessed a charter from King Alexander III. , which confirmed a gift from Devorquilla de Balliol to Glasgow Cathedral . On June 18, 1342, Malcolm Fleming, Earl of Wigtown , received a charter over the lands of Cardoness in Galloway from King David II in exchange for the lands of Mochrum which the king had previously given him as a fief. He also received other lands in Wigtownshire .

The Cardoness estates remained in the hands of the MacCulloch family until 1466. Sir Andreas Agnew, 8th Baronet , wrote a legend in 1864 that tells how the MacCullochs came to the lands of Cardoness:

“A certain Lord of Cardonnes, who had exhausted his financial resources building his castle, joined a gang of border thieves and amassed considerable fortune through looting. In the twenty years that he was married, his wife had given birth to nine daughters. But this did not satisfy his now increased desire for a family owner and he threatened his wife that if she did not bear him a son, he would drown her and all his nine daughters in the black hole and look for a new wife. No one doubted that the lord would carry out his threat, and so the woman and her neighbors were delighted when she was able to present her husband with a son. It was now the middle of winter and the lake was thickly frozen, whereupon the Lord announced his intention to hold a great festival on the '' Black Hole ''. According to his instructions, his entire family was gathered there on a specific Sunday, except for one daughter who was unable to attend the festival. The celebrants were in high spirits when suddenly the ice gave way and the old sinner himself and his entire family fell into the dark water and drowned miserably. Only the young lady who could not attend the party did not drown and a little later married a MacCulloch. "

Inside of Cardoness Castle

The MacCulloch gentlemen had the current castle built at the end of the 15th century. In the 1560s, an English spy reported to Queen Elizabeth I about the castle in preparation for an invasion of Scotland that never took place. In 1622 the Gordons of Ardwall bought the mortgaged property. The feud between the MacCullochs and Gordon culminated in 1690, when Sir Godfrey McCulloch on William Gordon from Buck o'Bield shot and killed him. Sir Godfrey fled to France , but was apprehended in Edinburgh in 1697 and executed on the Scottish Maiden . Subsequently, the castle was no longer inhabited and passed through the hands of several owners until it was placed under the care of the state in 1927. It has been a Scheduled Monument since 1928 and is now administered by Historic Scotland . It is open to the public.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Scheduled Monument - entry . In: Historic Scotland .
  2. ↑ a b c Cardoness Castle - Statement of Significance . Historic Environment Scotland. 2013. Retrieved April 12, 2017.
  3. ↑ Registrum Episcopatus Glasguensis; Munimenta Ecclesie Metropolitane Glasguensis a Sede Restaurata Seculo Incunte Xii Ad Reformatam Religionem ( latin ) Bannatyne Club. Pp. 192-193. 1843. Retrieved April 12, 2017.
  4. ↑ James Balfour Paul: The Scots Peerage . David Douglas. Pp. 520-522. 1911. Retrieved April 12, 2017.
  5. ^ Andrew Agnew: A history of the hereditary sheriffs of Galloway . Adam and Charles Black. Pp. 30-31. 1864. Retrieved April 12, 2017.
  6. ↑ Entry on Cardoness Castle  in Canmore, the database of Historic Environment Scotland (English)
  7. ^ Coventry, Martin: Cardoness Castle . In: The Castles of Scotland . Retrieved April 13, 2017.

Web links

Commons : Cardoness Castle  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 54 ° 52 ′ 20.3 "  N , 4 ° 11 ′ 52.8"  W.