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Geschichte. Die Geschichte von Festungsbauten auf dem Dumbarton Rock kann über 1500 Jahre zurückverfolgt werden. Zu dieser Zeit wurde das Königreich Alt Clut (Strathclyde) von diesem Hügel aus regiert. Der früheste bekannte dieser Herrscher war Ceretic Guletic im fünften Jahrhundert. [4]
Die als „Rock of the Clyde“ bekannte Festung, ist eine der beeindruckendsten mittelalterlichen Burgen Schottlands und blickt auf eine über 1500 Jahre alte Geschichte zurück. Die Britonen hatten hier schon eine Festung, bevor die Römer im Jahr 367 diese Region verließen, und noch im Zweiten Weltkrieg befand sich hier ein Militärstützpunkt.
Auf dem vulkanischen Basaltfelsen Dumbarton Rock befindet sich Dumbarton Castle, das als älteste Burg Schottlands gilt. Dumbarton war ab dem 5. Jahrhundert der Hauptort des frühmittelalterlichen Königreichs Strathclyde und danach Hauptstadt der traditionellen Grafschaft Dunbartonshire.
6. Juni 2017 · Am Zufluss des Flusses Leven in den River Clyde ragt der mächtige Dumbarton Rock trutzig und markant aus dem Landschaftsbild heraus. Darauf befindet sich die Burg Dumbarton Castle, die auf eine über 1500-jährige Geschichte zurückblickt und Schauplatz mancherlei Fehden und Gefechte war. Um 1220 diente die Burg als Grenzposten zum ...
- Iron Age
- Early Medieval Era
- Medieval Era
- James IV and Dumbarton
- Regent Albany, James V and The Circumnavigation of Scotland
- Lennox and Mary, Queen of Scots
- Marian Civil War, Regent Morton, and The Dukes of Lennox
- Seventeenth Century
- Inventories
At least as far back as the Iron Age, this has been the site of a strategically important settlement, as evidenced by archaeological finds. The people that came to reside there in the era of Roman Britain were known to have traded with the Romans. However the first written record about a settlement there was in a letter that Saint Patrick wrote to ...
David Nash Ford has proposed that Dumbarton was the Cair Brithon ("Fort of the Britons") listed by Nennius among the 28 cities of Sub-Roman Britain. From the 5th century until the 9th, the castle was the centre of the independent Brythonic Kingdom of Strathclyde. Alt Clut or Alcluith (Scottish Gaelic: Alt Chluaidh, pronounced [aɫ̪d̪̊ˈxɫ̪uəj], lit. ...
In medieval Scotland, Dumbarton (Dùn Breatainn, which means "the fortress of the Britons") was an important royal castle. It is believed to be the place Sir John Menteith took William Wallace on the way to London after Wallace's capture. The Governor of the castle in 1333, Malcolm Fleming of Fulwood, had earlier served as tutor to the young David I...
The former supporters of James III under the leadership of John Stewart, 1st Earl of Lennox met up at Dumbarton Castle in October 1489. They had hoped to gain the support of Henry VII of England. James IV defeated them in a battle between the Touch and Menteith hills near Stirling on 11 and 12 October. James IV used Dumbarton as the west coast base...
On 18 May 1515 the James or the Margaret with six other ships brought John Stewart, Regent Albany to Dumbarton. These royal ships were repaired at Dumbarton in July and new docks were made for them. John Drummond of Milnab brought fourteen of their guns to Glasgow. In September Regent Albany held court at Dumbarton, and received Thomas Benolt, the ...
Matthew, Earl of Lennox had been an ally of the French party in Scotland led by Mary of Guise but committed himself to the pro-English faction. In 1544 munitions and ten thousand French crowns of the sun arrived with Jacques de la Brosse at Dumbarton's harbour and were secured by Lennox and the Earl of Glencairn. Lennox then went into England, leav...
Mary, Queen of Scots stayed at Dumbarton Castle in July 1563. After the defeat at the Battle of Langside in 1568 she tried to reach the Castle, but went instead to England. John Fleming, 5th Lord Fleming, keeper of the Castle went with her into England and was allowed to return. When William Kirkcaldy of Grange governor of Edinburgh Castle changed ...
Although few buildings remain from this period there are records of works in 1617, 1618, and 1628–9. A replacement Wallace Tower was built superseding the medieval building. In June 1618 masons were working on the upper storey and it was decided to make the tower larger. Externally it was finished with lime plaster called harling. At the south side...
Several lists of the castle's contents survive, including inventories from 1510, 1571, 1580, 1644, and 1668. These list guns and furniture and name many locations in the castle. There is also a list of cannon transported by John Drummond of Milnab to Dumbarton in 1536. In 1510 St Patricks chapel contained an old parchment mass book, a pewter chalic...
Die Burg hat eine lange Geschichte. Sie steht auf einem erloschenen, rund 350 Millionen Jahre alten Vulkan, den schon keltische Stämme zu den Zeiten der alten Römer als Festung nutzten. Vor rund 1500 Jahren war Dumbarton das wichtigste politische Zentrum in der Region um das heutige Glasgow.
Founded in the fifth century, Dumbarton was once the capital of the ancient Kingdom of Strathclyde. The key to the town’s original success was the volcanic rock, which is now home to Dumbarton Castle. This dramatic volcanic plug, Dumbarton Rock, in-filled the crater of a volcano that was active 350 million years ago.
