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Edinburgh Castle is a historic castle in Edinburgh, ... The peace was short-lived, however, and the following year the Covenanters took the castle again, this time ...
Edinburgh Castle. The governor of Edinburgh Castle, also sometimes known as the Keeper or Captain, had overall control of the royal castle of Edinburgh, Scotland.The governor was usually assisted by a Deputy-Governor and a Constable, the latter being under the command of the Lord High Constable of Scotland.
The castle was burned by the English in 1543 during the Rough Wooing. Mary, Queen of Scots, stayed at Craigmillar in the 16th century. In 1660 the castle was acquired by the Gilmours, who modernised the west range and lived there until the early 18th century. Craigmillar has been a ruin since at least 1775, and has been in state care since 1946 ...
As a child, and known as "Lady Margaret" she lived at Edinburgh Castle in the care of Sir Patrick Crichton and his wife, Katrine Turing, where her attendants and companions included Marjory Lindsay and the African servants who were called the "More lasses", Margaret and Ellen More. [3]
Doune Castle: Stirlingshire: Seat of the Duke of Albany (1380–1603) Dunfermline Palace: Dunfermline, Fife: Seat of the King of Scots (1500–1650) Edinburgh Castle: Edinburgh A residence of the Kings of Scots from the 11th to the 17th centuries, last used by Charles I in 1633 (now managed by Historic Scotland) Falkland Palace: Falkland, Fife
Edinburgh, showing Arthur's Seat, one of the earliest known sites of human habitation in the area. While the area around modern-day Edinburgh has been inhabited for thousands of years, [1] the history of Edinburgh as a definite settlement can be traced to the early Middle Ages when a hillfort was established in the area, most likely on the Castle Rock.
James Braidwood (1800–1861), founder of world's first municipal fire service in Edinburgh in 1824 and first director of the London Fire Engine Establishment; Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux (1778–1868), statesman, a founder of the Edinburgh Review and Lord Chancellor; David Brown, first recorded Jew in Edinburgh (1693)
c.1130: Probable date of St Margaret's Chapel erected inside Edinburgh Castle, [4] now recognised as Edinburgh's oldest building c.1143: David I grants the Augustinian canons of Holyrood leave "to establish a burgh between that church and my burgh", thus founding the burgh of Canongate. 1162: Edinburgh is the caput of the Lothian sheriffdom