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Tullibardine Castle
Tullibardine, Perth and Kinross, Scotland
Tullibardine Castle is located in Perth and KinrossTullibardine CastleTullibardine Castle
Coordinates56°18′18″N 3°45′49″W / 56.305079°N 3.763489°W / 56.305079; -3.763489

Tullibardine Castle was a castle located in the village of Tullibardine, 2 miles (3.2 km) north of Auchterarder in Perth and Kinross, Scotland.

History

The lands of Tullibardine passed to the Murray family after Ada de Strathearn, the wife of William Murray, was granted the other moiety of Tullibardine from her aunty. The castle was built in the late 13th to early 14th century, with likely its first custodian being David Murray, Baron of Tullibardine.

One early Murray owner of the castle was said to have had seventeen sons. The king thought he had broken the law by having an armed retinue. The brothers were said to have slept in a large round room in the castle, their heads placed against a central pillar.

The outline of the ship, the Great Michael, commissioned by James IV, was commemorated by a plantation of hawthorn hedges at Tullibardine. This could be seen in the 1570s, according to a chronicle writer, Robert Lindsay of Pitscottie. The probable site of this garden feature can be seen in aerial photographs about 100 metres north of the castle site.

Mary, Queen of Scots, visited William Murray of Tullibardine at the castle on 16 November 1562, and following the baptism of Prince James, on 31 December 1566 accompanied, it was said, by the Earl of Bothwell. The indictment or "Book of Articles" written by her enemies in 1568 says, in the Scots language, "at Tullibardin (and at Drymen, Drummond Castle) sche abaid the spece of aucht dayis using that fylthines almoist without cloik or respect of schame or honestie".

Letters of Annabell Murray, Countess of Mar and William Stewart of Grandtully suggest a meeting at Tullibardine Castle on 28 July 1570 was at attempt at reconciliation during the Marian Civil War.

James VI and the masque at Tullibardine

James VI often visited John Murray, 1st Earl of Tullibardine, whose roles at court included Master of the Household. James came from Huntingtower Castle, then known as Ruthven Castle in August 1584, when there was a plague scare in Perth.

King James, possibly with Anne of Denmark, attended the wedding of Lilias Murray and John Grant of Freuchie on 21 June 1591 at Tullibardine. James VI, who had taken dancing lessons in 1580, performed in a masque, dancing with his valet, probably John Wemyss of Logie. They wore Venetian carnival masks and helmets with red and pink taffeta costumes. The original account of fabrics supplied to the king's tailor, written in the Scots language, includes:

Item, the 18 of June deliverit to Allexander Miller 8 ellis of incarnedin Spainze (Spanish) taffetye to be ane stand of maskerie clayths to his majestie att the mariage of the laird of Tillebarne dochter att £7 the elle, £56.
Item 8 elles of incarnet taffetie to be ane stand of maskerye clayths to hym that wes his majesties vallet att thatt tyme, £24.

The costumes of the King and the valet were embellished with gold "tock", a tinsel fabric, and lined with yellow canvas. Although some contemporaries, Albert Fontenay and later Théodore de Mayerne, wrote that James was disinclined or unable to dance, he had been given dance lessons throughout his childhood. James VI returned from Tullibardine after hearing that the Earl of Bothwell had escaped from Edinburgh Castle. James VI was at Tullibardine again for New Year in 1592. He stayed again on 7 January 1594.

The castle was demolished in 1883.

See also

References

  1. Sharpe's Peerage of the British Empire exhibiting its present state and deducing the existing descents from the ancient nobility of England, Scotland and Ireland, Volume 1, John Sharpe (1830)
  2. Chronicles of Strathearn (Crieff, 1896), p. 288.
  3. Marilyn Brown, Scotland's Lost Gardens (Edinburgh, 2015), pp. 87-9.
  4. Edward Furgol, 'Scottish Itinerary of Mary Queen of Scots, 1542-8 and 1561-8', PSAS, 117 (1987), microfiche, scanned
  5. Steven J. Reid, The Early Life of James VI: A Long Apprenticeship, 1566–1585 (Edinburgh: John Donald, 2023), p. 32: George Chalmers, Life of Mary Queen of Scots, vol. 1 (London, 1818), p. 199: David Hay Fleming, Mary Queen of Scots (London, 1897), p. 430.
  6. R. H. Mahon, The indictment of Mary Queen of Scots (Cambridge, 1923), pp. 39, 51
  7. Jane Dawson, Clan Campbell Letters (Edinburgh: SHS, 1997), pp. 168, 174.
  8. Michael Pearce, 'Maskerye Claythis for James VI and Anna of Denmark', Medieval English Theatre 43 (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2022), pp. 116-117. doi:10.2307/j.ctv24tr7mx.9
  9. Chronicles of Strathearn (Crieff, 1896), p. 290, citing David Moysie.
  10. Maria Hayward, Stuart Style (Yale, 2020), p. 59: W. Boyd & H. Meikle, Calendar State Papers Scotland, vol. 10 (Edinburgh, 1936), pp. 533–5.
  11. Amy Blakeway, 'James VI and the Earl of Morton', Miles Kerr-Peterson & Steven J. Reid, James VI and Noble Power in Scotland 1578-1603 (Routledge, 2017), p. 21.
  12. Jemma Field, Anna of Denmark: The Material and Visual Culture of the Stuart Courts (Manchester, 2020), p. 135.
  13. Michael Pearce, 'Anna of Denmark: Fashioning a Danish Court in Scotland', The Court Historian, 24:2 (2019) p. 149 doi:10.1080/14629712.2019.1626110
  14. Michael Pearce, 'Maskerye Claythis for James VI and Anna of Denmark', Medieval English Theatre 43 (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2022), pp. 116–7
  15. REED project transcriptions from Scottish exchequer records (NRS E21/67, E35/13, E35/14); 1588-1590, 1590-1592, Sarah Carpenter
  16. Hermann W. Haller, John Florio: A Worlde of Wordes (University of Toronto, 2013), p. 728, "toccadoro".
  17. Michael Pearce, 'Maskerye Claythis for James VI and Anna of Denmark', Medieval English Theatre 43 (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2022), pp. 113, 115, 117.
  18. Alexander Courtney, James VI, Britannic Prince: King of Scots and Elizabeth's Heir, 1566–1603 (Routledge, 2024), pp. 28, 49: Susan Doran, From Tudor to Stuart: The Regime Change from Elizabeth I to James I (Oxford, 2024), p. 37.
  19. James Dennistoun, Memoirs of the Affairs of the Scotland by David Moysie (Edinburgh: Maitland Club, 1830), p. 86.
  20. HMC 6th Report: Menzies (London, 1877), p. 693.
  21. David Moysie, Memoirs of the Affairs of Scotland (Edinburgh, 1830), p. 112.
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