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Anne Gordon, Countess Of Moray
Anne Gordon, Countess of Moray (1590-1640) was a Scottish aristocrat. She was a daughter of George Gordon, 1st Marquess of Huntly and Henrietta Stewart. In 1607 she married James Stuart, 3rd Earl of Moray (died 1638). Her father had been implicated in the murder of his father, James Stewart, 2nd Earl of Moray. The marriage was planned by James VI of Scotland in February 1603 as an act of reconciliation. As Lady Moray, she lived at Darnaway Castle, and at nearby Castle Stuart (or "Castle Stewart") which she and her husband built. She argued with a neighbouring landowner over rights to lime for the building works in 1618. She also resided at the Moray family lodgings in Elgin and Leith. Anne Gordon was a friend of Margaret Seton, Countess of Seaforth, her neighbout at the Chanonry, and she frequently visited her relations at the Bog o'Gight, now known as Gordon Castle. John Taylor the Water Poet visited the Earl and Countess at Darnaway in 1618, enjoying four days of "good cheere ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Castle Stuart - Geograph
A castle is a type of fortified structure built during the Middle Ages predominantly by the nobility or royalty and by military orders. Scholars debate the scope of the word ''castle'', but usually consider it to be the private fortified residence of a lord or noble. This is distinct from a palace, which is not fortified; from a fortress, which was not always a residence for royalty or nobility; from a ''pleasance'' which was a walled-in residence for nobility, but not adequately fortified; and from a fortified settlement, which was a public defence – though there are many similarities among these types of construction. Use of the term has varied over time and has also been applied to structures such as hill forts and 19th-20th century homes built to resemble castles. Over the approximately 900 years when genuine castles were built, they took on a great many forms with many different features, although some, such as curtain walls, arrowslits, and portcullises, w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chanonry Of Ross
Castle Chanonry of Ross, also known as Seaforth Castle, was located in the town of Fortrose, to the north-east of Inverness, on the peninsula known as the Black Isle, Highland, Scotland. Nothing now remains of the castle. The castle was also known as Canonry or Chanonrie of Ross, the former county. Construction The Castle no longer stands. However, it is known that it was a rectangular tower house built by the Bishop Fraser between 1497 and 1507. 16th century siege In 1569, during the Marian civil war between the deposed Mary, Queen of Scots and James VI of Scotland, a feud arose between the Clan Mackenzie and Clan Munro, who were among the most powerful clans in Ross-shire. The trouble started when John Leslie, Bishop of Ross granted to his cousin Leslie, the Laird of Balquhair, the right and title to the castle at Chanonry together with the castle lands. Bishop Leslie had been secretary to Queen Mary and there was strong feeling against episcopacy in Scotland. He therefore ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scottish Countesses
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James Grant Of Freuchie
James Grant of Freuchie (1616–1663) was a Scottish landowner, the seventh Laird of Freuchie. Freuchie Castle, also known as "Ballachastell" is now called Castle Grant. Career He was a son of John Grant of Freuchie and Mary, daughter of Walter Ogilvie of Findlater. A note written by his grandmother, Lilias Murray, indicates he was born on 24 June 1616. He became Laird of Freuchie on the death of his father in 1637. Grant signed the Scottish Covenant and bought blue ribbons for himself and his followers in Aberdeen in 1639 to show his support. His father, John Grant of Freuchie, had employed John Anderson to paint the gallery of Castle Grant with "fine colours" and gild the "storm" or dormer windows in 1635. James Grant employed two masons in 1649, Robert Torrie and James Mason, to rebuild and heighten two smoking chimneys at Castle Grant and improve the leaking battlements of the two old towers. Grant employed a fowler, John Innes, to hunt to hunt water-fowl and partridges wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Stuart, 4th Earl Of Moray
James Stuart, 4th Earl of Moray (c. 1611 – 4 March 1653) was a Scottish landowner. He was the son of James Stuart, 3rd Earl of Moray and Lady Anne Gordon, a daughter of George Gordon, 1st Marquess of Huntly and Henrietta Stewart. He married Lady Margaret Home, daughter of Alexander Home, 1st Earl of Home and Mary Dudley, on 18 October 1627 (contract). The couple had eight children: * James Stuart, Lord Doune. * Alexander Stuart, 5th Earl of Moray, married after 1658 Emilia Balfour (? - January 1683) * Hon. Francis Stuart of Cullello, Fife * Hon. Archibald Stuart of Dunearn, Fife (? - February 1688), Governor of Stirling Castle, married in 1669 Anna Henderson, daughter of Sir John Henderson, 5th of Fordell and wife Margaret Menteith, and had: **Charles Stuart (?–1732), married Jean Hamilton, daughter of Alexander Hamilton (ancestor of Barons Hamilton) and had issue: James, Jean and Mary ** Margaret Stuart (? - October 1719), married firstly to Sir Archibald Stewa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Hume Brown
Peter Hume Brown, Fellow of the British Academy, FBA (17 December 1849 – 1 December 1918) was a Scottish historian and professor who played an important part in establishing Scottish history as a significant academic discipline. As well as teaching and writing, he spent 16 years as editor of the Register of the Privy Council of Scotland, and served as Historiographer Royal (Scotland), Historiographer Royal. Early life Hume Brown was born in Tranent but soon he and his widowed mother moved to Prestonpans, a few miles away, where he started at the Free Church of Scotland (1843-1900), Free Church school in 1857. After his mother's death in 1866 he stayed at the school as a pupil teacher for another three years. He taught in England and Wales before starting a degree in theology at Edinburgh in 1872. He decided he had no vocation to be a clergy, minister and left in 1874, only to start a different course the following year, graduating as Master of Arts (Scotland), MA in 1878. In t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Taylor (poet)
John Taylor (24 August 1578 – December 1653) was an English poet who dubbed himself "The Water Poet". Biography John Taylor was born in the parish of St. Ewen's, near South Gate, Gloucester on 24 August 1578. His parentage is unknown, as the parish registers did not survive the Civil War. He did, however, attend elementary school and grammar school there. His grammar school education may have taken place at the Crypt School in Gloucester, however Taylor never finished his formal education as Latin bested him. In the early 1590s, after his attempt at grammar school he moved from his home to south London, probably Southwark, to begin an apprenticeship as a waterman. His occupation was one deemed unpopular by the literary elite of London. Watermen were known to be drunkards, and often gossips and liars, who attempted to cheat patrons into a higher wage for their service. This occupation would be crafted into an image for Taylor later in his career. After his waterman apprentice ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gordon Castle
Gordon Castle is located near Fochabers in Moray, Scotland. Historically known as the Bog-of-Gight or Bog o'Gight, it was the principal seat of the dukes of Gordon. Following 18th-century redevelopment, it became one of the largest country houses ever built in Scotland, although much has since been demolished. History The original castle was built by George Gordon, 2nd Earl of Huntly in the 1470s and enlarged by his grandson and George Gordon, 1st Marquess of Huntly. An inventory of the contents from November 1648 mentions lavish beds and a "hen house", a parrot cage in the long gallery. The first wave of substantial extension was undertaken by Alexander Gordon, 2nd Duke of Gordon in the 1720s, greatly increasing the floorplan in relation to the original tower house. Architect John Adam was commissioned, alongside the exiled Huguenot (French) architect Abraham Roumieu, to redesign the castle in 1764, but this did not come to fruition. Eventually the commission fell to th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colin Mackenzie, 1st Earl Of Seaforth
Colin Mackenzie, 1st Earl of Seaforth (1596/97–1633), was a Highland clan chief and Scottish nobleman, possessed of vast estates and wealth. Origins Mackenzie, nicknamed "Ruadh" (i.e. "Red"), was the eldest son of Kenneth Mackenzie, 1st Lord Mackenzie of Kintail by his first wife, Ann, daughter of George Ross of Balnagown. The Mackenzies were a clan from Ross-shire that had risen to prominence in the 15th century during the disintegration of the Lordship of the Isles. The final subjection of Lewis Mackenzie was only 14 when his father died in 1611, and the clan territories were therefore entrusted to his uncle, Sir Roderick Mackenzie of Coigach, the "Tutor of Kintail". Upon Lord Mackenzie's death, Neil Macleod and other members of the Macleods of Lewis, whom Lord Mackenzie had recently subdued, rose in rebellion in Lewis. A number of commissions against them were granted between 1611 and 1616 to the Tutor of Kintail, Colin Mackenzie of Killin, Murdo Mackenzie of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Gordon, 1st Marquess Of Huntly
George Gordon, 1st Marquess of Huntly (156213 June 1636) was a Scottish nobleman who took a leading role in the political and military life of Scotland in the late 16th century, and around the time of the Union of the Crowns. Biography The son of George Gordon, 5th Earl of Huntly, and of Anne, daughter of James Hamilton, 2nd Earl of Arran and Duke of Châtellerault, he was educated in France as a Roman Catholic. He took part in the plot which led to the execution of James Douglas, 4th Earl of Morton in 1581 and in the conspiracy which saved King James VI from the Ruthven raiders in 1583. In 1588 he signed the Presbyterian confession of faith, but continued to engage in plots for the Spanish invasion of Scotland. On 28 November he was appointed captain of the guard, and while carrying out his duties at Holyrood his treasonable correspondence was discovered. King James, however, finding the Roman Catholic lords useful as a foil to the tyranny of the Kirk, was at this time seekin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Castle Stuart
Castle Stuart is a restored tower house on the banks of the Moray Firth, about northeast of Inverness. The land the castle was built on was granted to James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray by his half-sister, Mary, Queen of Scots, following her return to Scotland in 1561. The successive murders of Stewart and his son-in-law, James Stewart, 2nd Earl of Moray, meant that the castle was finally completed by his grandson, James Stuart, 3rd Earl of Moray, in 1625. Though the castle initially flourished, it fell into disuse as the fortunes of the House of Stuart sank during the English Civil War and Charles I was executed. The castle lay derelict for 300 years before being restored; it is currently used as a luxury hotel. Golf links The seaside links golf course at Castle Stuart along Moray Firth opened in 2009, co-designed by two Americans: managing partner Mark Parsinen and golf course architect Gil Hanse. It was voted as Best New Course for 2009 by ''Golf'' magazine. The course ho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Darnaway Castle
Darnaway Castle, also known as Tarnaway Castle, is located in Darnaway Forest, southwest of Forres in Moray, Scotland. This was Comyn land, given to Thomas Randolph along with the Earldom of Moray by King Robert I. The castle has remained the seat of the Earls of Moray ever since. Rebuilt in 1810, it retains the old banqueting hall, capable of accommodating 1,000 men. Etymology The name ''Darnaway'' represents a anglicisation of the Gaelic form ''Taranaich''. ''Taranaich'' conserves an early Brittonic form, ''Taranumagos'', derived from the elements ''taranu'' meaning "thunder" and ''magos'', "a plain" ( Welsh ''taran-maes''). Randolphs and Douglases Sir Thomas Randolph probably built the first castle. John, 3rd Earl, died at the Battle of Neville's Cross in 1346 without male heirs, and the earldom went to Patrick Dunbar, who was the husband of one of John's daughters. The male line of the Dunbars failed around 1430, and the earldom went to the Douglases. When Arch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
