Tullibardine Castle was a castle located in the village of

Tullibardine Tullibardine is a location in Perth and Kinross, Scotland, which gives its name to a village, a castle and a grant of nobility. The village of Tullibardine is a settlement of approximately forty dwellings about southwest of Perth. It lies in the ...

, north of

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, Scotland.

History

The lands of Tullibardine passed to the Murray family after Ada de Strathearn, the wife of William Murray, was granted the other moiety of Tullibardine from her aunty. The castle was built in the late 13th to early 14th century, with likely its first custodian being David Murray, Baron of Tullibardine.''Sharpe's Peerage of the British Empire exhibiting its present state and deducing the existing descents from the ancient nobility of England, Scotland and Ireland'', Volume 1, John Sharpe (1830) One early Murray owner of the castle was said to have had seventeen sons. The king thought he had broken the law by having an armed retinue. The brothers were said to have slept in a large round room in the castle, their heads placed against a central pillar. The outline of the ship, the ''

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'', commissioned by

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, was commemorated by a plantation of hawthorn hedges at Tullibardine. This could be seen in the 1570s, according to a chronicle writer,

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. The probable site of this garden feature can be seen in aerial photographs about 100 metres north of the castle site.

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, visited

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at the castle on 16 November 1562, and on 31 December 1566.

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often visited

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. He came from

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, then known as Ruthven Castle in August 1584, when there was a plague scare in Perth. James and

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attended the wedding of Lilias Murray and John Grant of

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on 21 June 1591 at Tullibardine. James VI performed in a

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with his valet, probably

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. The accounts mentions a suit of masque clothes for "hym that wes his majesties vallet att thatt tyme". They wore Venetian carnival masks and helmets with red and pink taffeta costumes. James VI was at Tullibardine for New Year in 1592, and stayed on 7 January 1594.David Moysie, ''Memoirs of the Affairs of Scotland'' (Edinburgh, 1830), p. 112. The castle was demolished in 1883.

References

*Coventry, Martin (2010). ''Castles of the Clans''. Musselburgh : Goblinshead. {{DEFAULTSORT:Tullibardine Ruined castles in Perth and Kinross Clan Murray Demolished buildings and structures in Scotland Buildings and structures demolished in 1883

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