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Date/Time Thumbnail Dimensions User Comment; current: 16:26, 7 October 2023: 1,311 × 1,314 (227 KB): ArchaicW: Uploaded a work by Annotated by ArchaicW with: A Gatehouse range, B West range, C Banqueting Hall range and D Nithsdale Lodging range. from MacGibbon and Ross The Castellated and Domestic Architecture of Scotland 1887 with UploadWizard
The castle ground floor plan from MacGibbon and Ross, showing the ranges of the building. The castle is most unusual in having a triangular form, one of only a small number across Europe and the only one in the UK. [17] As well, it is unusual for Scotland in having a moat and earthwork ramparts around it. It sits in a low lying formerly swampy ...
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Caerlaverock Castle, a moated triangular castle, first built in the thirteenth century. Castles are buildings that combine fortifications and residence, and many were built within the borders of modern Scotland. They arrived in Scotland with the introduction of feudalism in the twelfth century.
Maxwell was the eldest son and heir of John Maxwell, 3rd Lord Maxwell (died 1484) and Janet, the daughter of George Crichton, 1st Earl of Caithness. [1] The Maxwells were an ancient House / Family from the Scottish Borders, whose chief seat was at Caerlaverock Castle near Dumfries.
The noble House of Maxwell had held the castle of Caerlaverock near Dumfries since the 13th century, and by the mid-16th century were the most powerful family in south-west Scotland. Robert Maxwell was the second son of John Maxwell, 8th Lord Maxwell (1553–1593) and his wife Elizabeth Douglas (d.1637), daughter of the 7th Earl of Angus .
Caerlaverock Castle was the seat of the chief of Clan Maxwell. [8] Threave Castle was owned by the Clan Maxwell between 1526 and 1640. [9] Maxwell Castle was built in 1545 but destroyed by the English in 1570. [10] Buittle Castle owned by the Maxwells from the 16th century until 1984