The Barony of Craigie is a Scottish feudal Crown barony within and near Dundee in

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. Craigie has long been incorporated within the boundaries of the

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of Dundee; before that it was a barony lying on the periphery of the town. The Barony of Craigie is one of several Scottish feudal Crown baronies, and is governed under the Abolition of Feudal Tenure Act, Scotland, 2000. The title and rights of the Barony of Craigie are currently held by

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Robert Owen Thomas III, 1st Baron of Craigie.Burke's Peerage, New and Revised Records
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and were administrative units established by the Scottish king, where the local barons ruled on behalf of the king through a baron

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. Their powers were substantial within the barony which included forcing people to fight as soldiers. This was their downfall as some barons took their tenants into rebellions such as the

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, resulting in Barons' powers being stripped in 1747.

Location

Lands

The lands and farms of Craigie were designated as "Craigie" before AD 1534, although it was labelled as "Kragy" in some maps, such as the "Lower Angus and Perthshire east of the Tay map", by Timothy Pont, circa 1583–1596. Kragy and Craigie may refer to a rocky landscape. Craigie is located near a hill of sorts in some maps, such as "Anguss ic/ R.G.", by Robert Gordon 580–1661 circa 1636–1652. The old lands of the Barony of Craigie lie to the east of central Dundee, Scotland, in the vicinity of A929 Forfar Road to the west, and A972 Kinsgway East to the north. The A930, Broughty Ferry Road and Dundee Road West, begins in what was the land of Craigie. Other lands, particularly from the Barony of Barry and

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, were drawn into the Barony of Craigie. While much of Craigie is now developed and within Dundee, some portions of the lands of Craigie remain much as they were at the formation of the barony. In 1881 the lands of Craigie were described in idyllic terms, such as ''"Craigie, family ofKid, excellent land, a good house, with a new little park;"''
/ref> The lands of Craigie, including Craigie House and the farms of Craigie, can be found on maps found on the ScotlandPlaces web site. An entry from the National Library of Scotland, "Northern Part of Angus Shire. Southern Part.", by Edinburgh : J. Thomson & Co., in 1825 provides an excellent view of the lands of Craigie. Craigie is located just to the east (right) of Dundee, just north of the coastline, and west (left) of the Broughty Castle.ScotlandPlaces web site, scotlandplaces.gov.uk, National Library of Scotland, Other historical references to Craigie include citations in 1678 as found in the ''Angusia Provincia Scotiae sive The Shire of Angus'', by Janssonius Waesberghe, Moses Pitt and Stephanus Swart of Amsterdam. The lands of the Barony of Craigie were never fully set, with frequent changes of territory between abbeys, merchants, towns, and nobles. Warden states that the ''"...property of Craigie was a large and valuable estate five or six centuries ago before 1884 but it was at an early period cut up into several sections, and these were again sub-divided into smaller portions, which makes it impossible to give a correct continuous account of either the sections or the smaller portions into which they were divided..."''
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Seat

The seat, also known as the

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References

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