Glamis Tower

This article describes Glamis Castle or Glamis Tower in the town of Kinghorn in Fife. The castle of the same name in the municipality of Glamis in Angus can be found here .

Glamis Tower
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Alternative name (s):	Glamis Castle
Creation time :	14th Century
Castle type :	Niederungsburg (Tower House)
Conservation status:	tore off
Standing position :	Scottish royalty
Construction:	Quarry stone
Place:	Kinghorn
Geographical location	56 ° 4 '16.3 "  N , 3 ° 10' 34.3"  W Coordinates: 56 ° 4 '16.3 "  N , 3 ° 10' 34.3"  W.

Glamis Tower , also Glamis Castle , was a tower house in the town of Kinghorn in the Scottish county of Fife . The tower was behind the high street .

When Sir John Lyon, Lord of Glamis , married Princess Johanna , daughter of King Robert II , in 1373 , Glamis Castle was part of her dowry. In 1543 the dilapidated Glamis Tower was rebuilt, but in 1546 it was besieged and captured by James Kirkcaldy of Grange . Today nothing is left of the castle and its area was built on with residential houses in modern times.

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} Francis Groome: Kinghorn . In: Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland: A Survey of Scottish Topography, Statistical, Biographical and Historical . 1885. Retrieved August 3, 2017.