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Old Photograph Tulliallan Castle Scotland
Old photograph of Tulliallan Castle, Kincardine-on-Forth in Fife, Scotland. The first fortification at Tulliallan was built some time before 1304, when it was ordered to be strengthened by Edward I of England. The position was strategic, near the main ferry over the River Forth. The castle was owned later by William Douglas, 1st Earl of Douglas, born 1327, died 1384. Archibald Douglas, 4th Earl of Douglas gifted the Tulliallan estate to the Edmiston family in 1402. In 1456 the gift was confirmed to Sir James Edmiston, great grandson of King James II of Scotland, by royal charter. Patrick Blackader, grandson of Cuthbert Blackader of Blackader Castle in Berwickshire, married Elizabeth Edmiston, daughter of Sir James. She brought the Tualliallen estate as her dowry. A noted member of the Blackadder family of Tulliallan was Robert Blackadder, brother of Patrick Blackadder, Laird of Tulliallan. Robert Blackadder was Bishop of Aberdeen, Bishop of Glasgow from 1484 and then in 1492 the first Archbishop of Glasgow, who added the eponymous crypt and aisle in Glasgow Cathedral. The bishop sided with rebel nobles who defeated and killed King James III of Scotland in 1488 at the Battle of Sauchieburn. The archbishop died while on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land in 1508. The last occupant of the old castle was Colonel Erskine, who died in the 1790s. George Elphinstone, 1st Viscount Keith bought the estate in 1799. He built a new castle and the roof of the old castle was removed and it was allowed to crumble into ruins.
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