3401 x 5120 px | 28,8 x 43,3 cm | 11,3 x 17,1 inches | 300dpi
Aufnahmedatum:
16. Juni 2008
Ort:
Hermitage Castle, Newcastleton, Roxburghshire, Scottish Borders, Scotland, United Kingdom
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Hermitage castle stands in an area which was the key to the control over Liddesdale and the border area during the Scottish and English wars. The first castle on the site was a timber affair, built most probably by Nicholas De Soulis in the 1240's. From what evidence exists it is assumed that the castle was a motte and bailey construction, one of the most common at the time. The castle stayed in De Soulis hands until around 1320, when William De Soulis was accused of conspiring to kill the King of Scotland Robert the Bruce. The castle and lands were taken in forfeit. From 1332 the castle was in the hands of the English Sir Ralph De Neville, until it was besieged in 1338 by William Douglas, the knight of Liddesdale, who claimed the castle for his own. William was responsible for starving to death a local sheriff in the castle because he thought the role should have been his own. The King seems to have agreed with him after the murder and gave him the job. In 1353 William was killed in revenge after he defected to the English side. The next owner of the castle was Hugh De Dacre, who rebuilt the whole of the castle in stone, of which the ground floor and courtyard can still be seen today. From Dacre's hand's the castle passed on to the Douglases who continued to build and refortify the castle in those turbulent times. During the late 1400's the 5th Earl sided with the English, he was ordered to exchange castles for a less strategically important one, and the castle passed into the hands of the Earl's of Bothwell, who could be better trusted not to defect to the English side. In the 1560's the castle was briefly visited by Mary Queen of Scots, while James Hepburn her third husband was there. She did not stay for long, and her return journey to Jedburgh was nearly the end of her. The castle became less important strategically from the 1600's, and by the 18th century the castle had become a romantic ruin. The castle was rebuilt in the late 1800's.
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