Castle Grant
Castle Grant is a castle about 1.6 km north of Grantown-on-Spey in the Highland administrative district of Scotland and was formerly the seat of Clan Grant of Strathspey . It was originally called Freuchie Castle but was renamed Castle Grant in 1694.
history
15th and 16th centuries
The castle is a residential tower from the 15th century with a Z-shaped floor plan. The site had belonged to the Comyn clan but fell to the Grants in the 15th century and became their headquarters.
The castle was originally called Freuchie Castle and James Grant of Freuchie supported Jacob V.
17th and 18th centuries
Although the Grants were Protestants, they joined James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose , in the Scottish Civil War in the 1640s . The castle's name was changed to Castle Grant in 1694 when the associated lands became the Regality of Grants.
Ludovick Grant , the 8th Laird, supported the Hanoverians against the Stewarts and fought against the Jacobites in the two Jacobite uprisings in 1715 and 1745 . But Castle Grant were occupied by the Jacobites.
In 1787 Robert Burns visited Castle Grant.
Modern history
The castle later fell into disrepair, but was restored in the 1990s. The property was bought by businessman Craig Whyte in 2006 for £ 720,000. After Whyte, who led the Glasgow Rangers football club into sequestration and liquidation in 2012 , refused to make his mortgage payments , the Bank of Scotland took over the castle. In September 2014 it was sold to a foreign buyer.
ghost
Castle Grant is said to be haunted by the ghost of Lady Barbara Grant , the daughter of a 16th century laird. But their small appearance should be more sad than terrifying. She reportedly died of a broken heart after being put in a dark dungeon for falling in love with the wrong man.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m Martin Coventry: Castles of the Clans: The Strongholds and Seats of 750 Scottish Families and Clans . 2008. ISBN 978-1-899874-36-1 . Pp. 241-243.
- ↑ a b c d Craig Whyte's former Castle Grant home is sold . In: The Scotsman . September 16, 2014. Retrieved April 19, 2017.
Web links
- Clan Castles and Manor Houses . Clan Grant Society - USA.
- Strathspey Estate website.
- Site of the Grantown Museum.
Coordinates: 57 ° 21 ′ 7.2 " N , 3 ° 35 ′ 41" W.