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Lochleven Castle

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The castle comprises a rectangular courtyard surrounded by a curtain wall, with a tower house, or keep, at one corner, and the round Glassin Tower projecting from the opposite corner. The foundations of demolished ranges of buildings remain around two sides of the courtyard. Of the outer court, only
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to send her materials for textile projects and embroidery. She also made multiple attempts to escape. Once, she pretended to be a laundress, while one of her ladies took her place inside the castle. However, as she was leaving, the boatman who was taking her across the loch recognized her, and took
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Old keys found when the level of the loch was lowered in the 19th-century are said to be those taken by Willie Douglas. The castle is one of many in Scotland said to be haunted by Mary's spirit because she is waiting for her twins to return to her so they would know their loss of life was not her
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that allowed fire to be directed along the external face of the curtain wall improved defence. The tower has a vaulted basement for storing water, accessed separately from the courtyard. The basement has separate channels to allow water to be collected from the loch and waste water to be drained
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The Glassin Tower is a round tower that was built into the south-east corner of the ancient curtain wall, probably around 1550. The derivation of 'Glassin' is unknown. The purpose of the tower was to provide additional accommodation and to give the castle a more imposing appearance.
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Lochleven Castle had fallen into ruin by the 18th century, but the ruins were conserved and rubbish removed in 1840. The estate passed from the Bruces to the Graham family in the 18th century and then, in the 19th century, to the Montgomerys, who no longer occupy Kinross House.
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A minor excavation in 1995 found the footings and two steps of a stone stairway that provided access to the Great Hall of the tower. 16th-century pottery and animal bones were found in 0.75 metres (2.5 ft) of debris near the forestair.
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on the loch shore from 1686, aligning the principal axis of house and garden on the distant castle. The "Newhouse", which was finally demolished in 1723, was just to the north of Bruce's site. Kinross was one of the first buildings in the
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From around 1546, Margaret Erskine and her son William Douglas built a house on the shore of the Loch which was known as "Newhouse." The "Newhouse" replaced the island castle as the legal centre of the estate in 1619. On 12 May 1589
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The castle, and an outer enclosure of which little trace remains, originally took up almost the entire area of Castle Island. The present wooded, and considerably larger, island was formed in the early 19th century when the
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Mary recovered during the autumn and winter, and gradually won George Douglas over to her own cause. A contemporary wrote that George was "in fantasy of love wythe hir." Mary asked her servant
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which would have given views over the loch. The upper chamber served as a bedchamber. At the very top a small room, accessible only from the wall walk, was possibly a study or library.
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let her walk out of the castle. She was then rowed across the loch to where George Douglas was waiting for her, along with 200 horsemen, and they fled to
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her back to the castle. Another time, she planned to escape by scaling the 7-foot (2.1 m) wall outside the castle, but one of her ladies-in-waiting,
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English forces laid siege to Lochleven in 1301, but the garrison was relieved in the same year when the siege was broken by Sir
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Mary fell ill on her arrival, which was suspected to be the result of a deliberate poisoning, and sometime before 24 July she
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twins that she had conceived with Bothwell; they were hastily buried in the grounds. Only a few days later she was forced to
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as they returned to Edinburgh riding by Loch Leven. Mary would have been imprisoned in Lochleven Castle and Darnley taken to
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an earth bank shows the position of the walls, with fragmentary remains of a bakehouse the only visible structures.
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fault; the sadness she felt about their loss kept her trapped within the castle walls after her death. The English
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Loch Leven Castle was fortified in the 14th or early-15th century by the addition of a five-storey
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in Lothian. Three days after, her French cook Estienne Hauet and his wife Elles Boug packed her
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Thomas Duncan, 'The Relations of Mary Stuart with William Maitland of Lethington',
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on 15 June, when she surrendered to her noblemen, who opposed her marriage to the
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as the 6th earl, he inherited other properties along with the title, including
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Lochleven Castle was given in to state care in 1939, and is now managed by
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A castle may have been built on Castle Island as early as 1257, when King
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in Fife, and as a result Loch Leven Castle became less frequently used.
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during the summer months. The remains of the castle are protected as a
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In September 1565, Mary visited Loch Leven again as the guest of Sir
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and other items in a chest to send to Mary wherever she might be.
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In 1675, the Loch Leven estate was bought from the Douglases by
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Lochleven Castle and the incarceration of Mary Queen of Scots
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Looking across fields of oilseed rape to Loch Leven Castle
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History of the affairs of church and state in Scotland
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Mary, Queen of Scots, Escaping from Lochleven Castle
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Loch Leven
Kinross
Scotland
grid reference
NO137017

Lochleven Castle is located in Scotland
56°12′N 3°23′W / 56.20°N 3.39°W / 56.20; -3.39
Historic Scotland
castle
Loch Leven
Perth and Kinross
Scotland
Wars of Scottish Independence
William Douglas, 1st Earl of Douglas
Mary, Queen of Scots
abdicate
gaoler
Earl of Morton
William Bruce
scheduled monument
Historic Environment Scotland
Alexander III of Scotland
regents
First War of Scottish Independence
Edinburgh
Stirling
Perth
curtain wall
William Wallace

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