Craigievar Castle On Visit To Aberdeenshire Scotland

Tour Scotland travel video clip, with Scottish music of Craigievar Castle located South of Alford, on visit to Aberdeenshire. It was the seat of Clan Sempill and the Forbes family resided here for 350. 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 and this title is now extant. The Forbes Baronetcy, of Craigievar in the County of Aberdeen, was created in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia on 20 April 1630 for William Forbes. He was also a descendant of Hon. Patrick Forbes, third son of the second Lord Forbes, and the nephew of the first Baronet of the 1628 creation. 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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