Tullibardine Castle
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| Tullibardine Castle | |
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| Tullibardine, Perth and Kinross, Scotland | |
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  Tullibardine Castle Tullibardine Castle | |
| Coordinates | 56°18′18″N 3°45′49″W / 56.305079°N 3.763489°W |
Tullibardine Castle was a castle located in the village of Tullibardine, 2 miles (3.2 km) north of Auchterarder in Perth and Kinross, Scotland.
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.[1]
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.[2]
The outline of the ship, the Great Michael, commissioned by James IV, was commemorated by a plantation of hawthorn hedges at Tullibardine. This could be seen in the 1570s, according to a chronicle writer, Robert Lindsay of Pitscottie. The probable site of this garden feature can be seen in aerial photographs about 100 metres north of the castle site.[3]
Mary, Queen of Scots, visited William Murray of Tullibardine at the castle on 16 November 1562,[4] and following the baptism of Prince James, on 31 December 1566 accompanied, it was said, by the Earl of Bothwell.[5][6][7] The indictment or "Book of Articles" written by her enemies in 1568 says, in the Scots language, "at Tullibardin (and at Drymen, Drummond Castle) sche abaid the spece of aucht dayis using that fylthines almoist without cloik or respect of schame or honestie".[8]
Letters of Annabell Murray, Countess of Mar and William Stewart of Grandtully suggest a meeting at Tullibardine Castle on 28 July 1570 was an attempt at reconciliation during the Marian Civil War.[9] Regent Morton came to Tullibardine in September 1575.[10]