Aberdour Castle

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Aberdour Castle is a castle in the historic village of Easter Aberdour in Scotland's management unit ( Council Area ) Fife in the east of the Central Lowlands. Built around 1200, the castle is with the built about the same time Castle Sween the oldest datable preserved castle in Scotland.

History

In the late 12th century, the foundation stone of the present castle was created with the construction of a two-story Tower House by the Norman knights de Mortimer. The Mortimers had been recruited with many other countrymen and peers of David I. to increase its military power. As probably the first building and castle Sir William de Mortimer is handed down from the documents obtained in litigation, which he led in 1180 to the Abbot of Inchcolm Abbey. In the course of the 13th century, the trace of the Mortimers loses. 1314 gave King Robert I the Bruce Castle and reign on his deserved henchman Thomas Randolph, 1st Earl of Moray, whose zweitgeborenem son John Randolph, 3rd Earl of Moray in 1342 it passed to the powerful and widespread Douglas clan in the person of Sir William Douglas of Liddesdale; other sources say she went over to Sir James Douglas of Dalkeith only in the year 1351. Until the 20th century the castle owned by the family of Douglas ' remained, from 1458 in the person of the Earl of Morton.

From about the 1590s under the reign of William Douglas, 6th Earl of Morton she broke from Loch Leven Castle was the seat of the Mortons. Under his grandson and successor, William Douglas, 7th Earl of Morton, the castle in the first half of the 17th century has been extended widely to a wing in the Renaissance style and achieved the highest glory folding of the festivities.

When Robert Douglas, 12th Earl of Morton in 1725 the neighboring Aberdour House acquired and settled contemporary there, fell Aberdour Castle, finally relieved of any practical importance, partly into ruin.