Tullibardine is a location in

Perth and Kinross Perth and Kinross ( sco, Pairth an Kinross; gd, Peairt agus Ceann Rois) is one of the 32 council areas of Scotland and a Lieutenancy Area. It borders onto the Aberdeenshire, Angus, Argyll and Bute, Clackmannanshire, Dundee, Fife, Highland and S ...

, Scotland, which gives its name to a village, a castle and a grant of nobility. Strathallan Village Hall, Tullibardine - geograph

The village of Tullibardine is a settlement of approximately forty dwellings about southwest of Perth. It lies in the parish of Blackford, and the nearest town is

Auchterarder Auchterarder (; gd, Uachdar Àrdair, meaning Upper Highland) is a small town located north of the Ochil Hills in Perth and Kinross, Scotland, and home to the Gleneagles Hotel. The High Street of Auchterarder gave the town its popular name of "Th ...

, to the south. Tullibardine Castle was a medieval fortification on a low eminence west of the village. Little is known about it and it no longer exists. The castle was built by the Clan Murray in the late 13th to early 14th century, after it had extended its holdings south from its heartland in Morayshire. The castle predates the nearby chapel, which is dated to 1446. The castle was dismantled in 1747, following the

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, and was completely demolished in 1833. Tullibardine Chapel 20090616

Tullibardine Chapel Tullibardine Chapel is an ancient church building in Tullibardine, Perth and Kinross, Scotland. It is one of the most complete medieval churches in Scotland. A large part of it dating to 1446, it is now a scheduled monument.

was built in the 1446 by David Murray of Tullibardine as a family chapel and burial site, and members of the Murray family were buried there until 1900. The chapel has remained unaltered since the 16th century. Regent Morton came to Tullibardine in September 1575, as the guest of Sir William Murray, Comptroller of Scotland. Sir John Murray was a favoured courtier of

James VI of Scotland James VI and I (James Charles Stuart; 19 June 1566 – 27 March 1625) was King of Scotland as James VI from 24 July 1567 and King of England and Ireland as James I from the union of the Scottish and English crowns on 24 March 1603 until hi ...

, who came to the wedding of Murray's daughter Lilias and John Grant of

Freuchie Freuchie is a village in Fife, Scotland, at the foot of the Lomond Hills, and near Falkland. The nearest major town is Glenrothes located 4 miles to the south. The name derives from the Scottish Gaelic, ''fraoch'', meaning heather. This Fife ...

at Tullibardine on 21 June 1591.W. Boyd & H. Meikle, ''Calendar State Papers Scotland'', vol. 10 (Edinburgh, 1936), pp. 533–5: Michael Pearce, 'Anna of Denmark: Fashioning a Danish Court in Scotland', ''The Court Historian'', 24:2 (2019) p. 149. Murray was promoted to Earl of Tullibardine in the

peerage of Scotland The Peerage of Scotland ( gd, Moraireachd na h-Alba, sco, Peerage o Scotland) is one of the five divisions of peerages in the United Kingdom and for those peers created by the King of Scots before 1707. Following that year's Treaty of Union, ...

in 1606, and to a

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in 1696. A branch of the family became the

Earls of Atholl The Mormaer or Earl of Atholl was the title of the holder of a medieval comital lordship straddling the highland province of Atholl (''Ath Fodhla''), now in northern Perthshire. Atholl is a special Mormaerdom, because a King of Atholl is repor ...

, then Dukes of Atholl, and the title "Marquess of Tullibardine" remains the title of the Atholl heir. The most notable Lords of Tullibardine were William Murray, a leading figure of the 1715 and 1719 Jacobite rebellions, and his brother George, a leader in 1745. In modern times, Tullibardine was served by

a station , known professionally as , is a Japanese actor, creative director, and writer. He appeared in a number of Japanese TV dramas, including ''Mei-chan no Shitsuji'', ''Hanazakari no Kimitachi e'' and ''Zettai Kareshi''. Additionally, he was well kn ...

on the

Crieff Junction Railway The Crieff Junction Railway was opened in 1856 to link the town of Crieff to the main line railway network in Scotland, at a junction at the present day station (then called Crieff Junction). In the second half of the twentieth century railway ...

, later part of the Caledonian and then the London, Midland and Scottish railways. The station, which opened in 1856, was closed in 1964. The name is now used by the Tullibardine distillery in Blackford, which opened in 1949, and to several of their brands of whisky.

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{{authority control Villages in Perth and Kinross