Lochmaben Castle
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 Lochmaben Castle 2008 |
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| Creation time : | 13./14. century | |
| Castle type : | Niederungsburg | |
| Conservation status: | ruin | |
| Standing position : | English royal family | |
| Construction: | Quarry stone | |
| Place: | Perforations | |
| Geographical location | 55 ° 6 '58.6 " N , 3 ° 25' 52.7" W | |
| Height: | 48 m ASL | |
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Lochmaben Castle is the ruin of a low castle in the town of Lochmaben in the Baronate Annandale in the Scottish administrative unit Dumfries and Galloway . Around 1160, Robert de Brus, Lord of Annandale, had a moth built south of the current location. The first castle at the current location was built by King Edward I in the 13th and 14th centuries. It was rebuilt under the reign of King James IV .
history
The castle, commissioned by Edward I and completed around 1300, was a much more solid building at the southern end of Castle Loch , the remains of which still show the great strength of its defenses. Archibald Douglas, Lord of Galloway , took Lochmaben Castle from the English on February 4, 1384 or 1385 with the help of the Earl of March and the Earl of Douglas after a siege of nine days and "destroyed it to the ground". Castle and Baronate passed into the possession of the Earls of March, but when the 10th Earl had forfeited his titles and possessions and was later reinstated, the latter happened "with the exception of Lochmaben Castle and the Baronate Annandale". Both went into the possession of Alexander Stewart, 1st Duke of Albany , in July 1455 . After his death in 1485, the baronate and castle fell to the crown by parliamentary law of October 1, 1487.
On January 16, 1508 or 1509, Sir Robert Lauder of the Bass , Knight, was in Edinburgh for three years "Captain and Keeper of the King's castle and fort at Lochmaben, with all pertinentes" (Eng .: captain and governor of the royal castle and Lochmaben Fortress with all peculiarities) and other privileges. 1605 was Sir William Cranstoun of Cranstoun , later 1st Lord Cranstoun , governor of Lochmaben Castle.
Lochmaben Castle remained significant and had a turbulent history until the early 17th century. At this time the castle was besieged for the last time and then slowly abandoned.
Today the ruin is a Scheduled Monument .
Individual evidence
- ↑ GE Cokayne, Hon. Vicary Gibbs (Editor): The Complete Peerage . Volume 1. London 1910. pp. 80-81.
- ^ M. Livingstone ISO (editor): The Register of the Privy Seal of Scotland . Volume 1: 1488-1529. No. 1799. Edinburgh 1908. pp. 273-274.
- ↑ James Balfour Paul: The Scot's Peerage . Entry: Cranstoun . Pp. 592-593.
- ↑ Scheduled Monument - Entry . In: Historic Scotland .
Web links and sources
- Martin Coventry, Martin (2001) The Castles of Scotland . 3. Edition. Goblinshead, Musselburgh 2001. ISBN 1-899874-26-7 .
- Lochmaben Castle, Lochmaben, Dumfries and Galloway . Historic Scotland. Retrieved November 13, 2017.