Old Photograph Vale Of Menteith Scotland

Old photograph of Vale Of Menteith, Scottish Gaelic: Mòine Tèadhaich, a district of south Perthshire, Scotland. The area between Callander and Dunblane was historically known in English as the Vale of Menteith. In medieval Scotland, Menteith formed a stewartry and later an earldom, ruled by the Earls of Menteith. The lands and the earldom passed to Walter Comyn, died 1258, in right of his wife Isabella, and then through Isabella's sister Mary to Stewarts, and finally to the Grahams, becoming extinct in 1694. The earlier introduction of Sheriffs to Scotland provided a ready-made alternative authority, so the extinction of the earldom did not create a lack of jurisdiction in the area; Menteith was covered by the sheriffdom based at Perth.



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