Tour Scotland Travel Video Clan Forbes Castle Aberdeenshire

Tour Scotland travel video of Clan Forbes Castle on ancestry visit to Aberdeenshire, Scotland. An excellent example of the original Scottish Baronial architecture, the great seven storey castle was completed in 1626 by the Aberdonian merchant William Forbes, ancestor of the Forbes baronets of Craigievar and brother of the Bishop of Aberdeen, Patrick Forbes of Corse Castle. Forbes purchased the partially completed structure from the impoverished Mortimer family in the year 1610. Forbes was nicknamed Danzig Willy, a reference to his shrewd international trading success with the Baltic states. William's son became a Baronet of Nova Scotia, Canada by King Charles I. The Clan Forbes family was close friends of the Clan Burnett of Leys, who built both Crathes Castle and Muchalls Castle.

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