Theresa Payton is a former White House chief information officer, and is the CEO of Fortalice Solutions.
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"This is now the new normal," Theresa Payton, CEO of security firm Fortalice Solutions and former White House chief information officer under President George W. Bush, told me.
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"Every device connected to the Internet is a target," said Theresa Payton, a former White House chief information officer and the founder and chief executive of Fortalice Solutions.
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"When you're setting up a red team and scoping your targets, consider the impact on your co-workers and clients," said Roy Iversen, director of security engineering and operations at Fortalice Solutions, who also co-authored the research.
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"Before we get into who did it, we try to figure out if the bad guys still have access," said Theresa Payton, a former chief information officer of the White House and founder of Fortalice, a cybersecurity firm.
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"The ability to monetize and take action on that data, there's really not the level of sophistication to do as much with it at scale," said Theresa Payton, chief executive and founder of cybersecurity firm Fortalice and a former White House Chief Information Officer.
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"The data collection of consumers, the data collection of federal government employees, it's very obvious that it's targeted, that it's orchestrated, and that there is multiple groups in play here," Theresa Payton, former White House Chief Information Officer and current CEO of cybersecurity company Fortalice Solutions, told NBC News.
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Aiton, Map Groome refers to the ruin in 1903 as a baronial fortalice.
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Cathbarr's tower was too small to serve him as a fortalice, for it was barely large enough to shelter the eleven axmen.
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After that defeat he retired to Kilmarnock, and on 24 May was ordered by the Council to deliver "the castell, tour, and fortalice of Kilmarnock, and also the tour and fortalice of Law", cites P. C. Reg., vol. i. p. 626 which he did. He joined in the letter to the Duke of Alva (general and governor of the Spanish Netherlands), asking for his assistance on Mary's behalf, 30 July.
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Davis, Page 301 McNaught records that a charter of 1498 refers to the Castle and Fortalice of the Barony and lands of Kilmaweris (sic). The explanation for the Kilmaurs Place / Jock's Thorn locations of Kilmaurs Castle is that the prime location for a castle was on the eminence now occupied by Kilmaurs Place and this was the baronial residence, whilst Jock's Thorn was a separate defensive structure, a fortalice, usually more a place for the protection of the common people than a residence for the laird.Mackenzie, Page Stewarton shows this situation with Corsehill Castle as the manorial residence and the Templehouse fortalice as the place for the protection of the tenantry.McNaught, Page 104 – 105.
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Unable to hold Kandy with his remaining forces, the Captain-General decided to fall back to the fortalice at Balana, expecting to keep it until reinforcement should arrive from Colombo or Goa.
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Tradition asserts that there was another fortalice nearby. The rival lairds would shoot at each other from their watch-rooms. After one finally killed the other the surviving laird was filled with remorse.
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Green is a keen runner, having taken part in the 2017, 2018 and 2019 London Marathons to raise funds for Bolton Hospice, Fortalice, a women's refuge in Bolton and Derian House Children's Hospice.
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Nothing was done, however, until in 1388 John Hawley, the mayor of Dartmouth and a privateer, was authorised by Richard II to raise funds from the town for a new "fortalice by the sea" to defend the harbour. Remains of the fortalice wall The fortalice, or small fort, took the form of an enclosure castle, with a curtain wall protected by mural towers and a gate tower. It was constructed on land in the manor of Stoke Fleming, belonging to the Carew family, lent by them due to the threat of French attack, and was built around a pre-existing chapel to Saint Petroc on the site.; It held catapults to attack enemy ships, and may also have been armed with early cannon and equipped with a chain to block the entrance to the harbour.
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In 1719 the Dutch built a small fortalice on an island promontory, on the southern side of the Galle bay. They called the island Klossenburg (or Kloffenburg), meaning 'fortalice or citadel on which the sea roars'. Klossenburg housed a battery of two guns and the Sinhalese called it 'Aluth Kotuwa' or the new fort. By the time the British took over Galle in 1790, the fortress had been abandoned. It wasn't until Captain Francis Bayley, the agent for the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company , arrived in Galle aboard the steamer ‘Hindustan’ in 1859.
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The old Barony and castle, fortalice, or tower house of Hill of BeithCoventry, Page 135 lay in the feudal Regality of Kilwinning, within the Baillerie of Cunninghame, and the Sherrifdom of Ayr, now the Parish of Beith, North Ayrshire, Scotland.
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Kilcoy Castle is a 17th-century castle near Muir of Ord and Tore on the Black Isle, in Ross and Cromarty, Scotland. Kilcoy Castle is a ‘Z’ plan fortalice dating from no later than 1618 and possibly founded as early as 1580 (contemporary with Dalcross Castle QV).
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Lochnaw Castle is a 16th-century tower house five miles from the town of Stranraer, in the historical county of Wigtownshire. Scotland. The spectacularly located "castle" incorporates a fortalice torhous. The "central" square tower 5 stories high formed part of the "New" Castle. Lochnaw Castle, c.
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Innerpeffray Castle is a ruined fortalice in private ownership. It was built by James Drummond, 1st Baron Maderty, on the corner of a Roman marching camp. Drummond Castle to the southwest of Crieff is the current Drummond family seat. The castle and the site of the Roman camp are both protected as scheduled monuments.
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His father having died in the interval, the son Sir Robert Lauder of The Bass (d.1517) was present in person at his hearing. The offender was fined 15 merks. In July 1547, during the war of the Rough Wooing, Elizabeth, prioress of Haddington was made keeper of the 'place and fortalice of Nunraw.
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The castle is a fortified house (fortalice) designed on a Z-plan running east-west, with square towers at the north-west and south-east corners, each containing a circular staircase.MacGibbon, D. and Ross, T. (1887) "The Castellated and Domestic Architecture of Scotland from the Twelfth to the Eighteenth Century Vol. 2" pp. title page, 237-243.
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In the middle of XIX century noble property owned by Józef Gołaszewski. In 1905 Zofia Jodłowska owned almost 167,7 ha of village and in 1911 owned only 8 ha. In 1529 thanks to Mikołaj Herburt Odnowski, Kraków voivode there was erected in Zboiska new minor defence castle (Zborsko). Village with fortalice is mentioned also in 1553.
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James Ogilivy, the 5th Lord of Airlie, built Forter Castle as a "fortalice" (fortification) in 1560 to protect the Balloch Pass route to Glenshee from intrusion. One report explains the rationale for the building: "At the time of construction, marauding bands of caterans threatened the settled folk in this area and the clan feuds, stoked by religious differences, as Protestantism came in to supplant the old Catholic religion, made it necessary to build a new fortalice for the house of Ogilvy". James Ogilvy’s grandson James Ogilvy, the 7th Lord of Airlie, was named the 1st Earl of Airlie by Charles II in 1639. In 1650, James refused to sign the National Covenant, so Forter castle was burnt down by the Duke of Argyll, Archibald Campbell, along with Airlie Castle.
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Muness Castle Muness Castle is located on Unst, which is one of the Shetland Islands of Scotland. The castle is east of the village of Uyeasound. Unst is Scotland's most northerly inhabited island, and Muness is the most northerly fortalice in the British Isles. It was designated as a scheduled monument in 1953 and is run as a museum by Historic Environment Scotland.
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This area which was earlier under the Jaipur state, came under the Sindhu Jat ruler Maharaja of Patiala. Lala Tek Chand was first among them to build the fortalice Haveli. Nangal Sirohi, 16 km from Narunail and 9 km from Mahindragarh, is famous for its historic havelis built by baniyas who had migrated from Satnali eight generations ago (c. 2002).Magnificent havelis of Nangal-Sirohi, The Tribune, 22 June 2002.
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The route taken by the Portuguese on 5 October 1594 is shown with red arrows. Halloluwa village is located several kilometers north of the Portuguese camp, on the west bank of the Mahaveli River. On 5 October 1594 the Portuguese abandoned Kandy, and with the Empress they began their retreat towards the Balana fortalice. The remaining few supplies, Jayavira's treasure and the ammunition reserves were loaded on elephants.
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It is recorded that an avenue of trees ran down from the well planted Corsehill into Stewarton. The single tower that remains today (2006) of Ravenscraig / Corsehill was repaired to stabilise it. A View of the later property of Corsehill House in 1791 It seems that Ravenscraig and Corsehill Castles were separate entities, and that a vague memory of Templehouse and its fortalice at Darlington on the lands of Corsehill farm, may have caused some extra confusion as in the King’s Kitchen tale of the location of the Baronial residence. An area opposite the site of Templehouses was known as 'The Castle' and this may reflect the existence of the castle or fortalice here (Hewitt 2006). Archibald Adamson in his 'Rambles Round Kilmarnock' of 1875 only records three castles, these being Robertland, Auchenharvie and Corsehill. He makes no mention of the name Ravenscraig, calling the site he visited Corsehill. Aitken only marks Crosshill Castle in 1829 on the west side of the Corsehill Burn.
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It is likely that it already existed before the incorporation of Red Ruthenia into Poland. The local legend is that the name "Białoboki" derives from the white walls of Korniaktów castle. However earlier records from the time of the Byreczski family indicate some kind of "white" fortalice in the village before the castle was built. An entry from 1445 mentions the owner Sieńka from Urzejowice, who handed over Białoboki to his son Jan Barzo.
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Frontal facade In the second half of the 14th-century, a gothic castle was built, later described as Castrum Curoswank. Some defensive buildings were erected in the centre of the town possibly by Dobiesław, who was a chatelaine of Cracow in 1381-1395. His family owned the fortalice for the next 100 years. Then a stone oval-shaped wall (28x40m) was built, surrounded by a moat to protect the wooden buildings within the walls.
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The present house was built for James Monypenny of Pitmilly circa 1580. The King confirmed to Andrew Logan of Easter Granton and his heirs, “the lands of Pittarthie with certain others, including the fortalice, manor-place, etc., which had formerly been held of the Archbishop of St. Andrews by James Monypenny of Pitmelie and had been resigned by him in favour of the said Andrew”.Raymond Lamont-Brown: Discovering Fife, John Donald Publishers Ltd.
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Retrieved 12 March 2016. The church stands beside Itton Court, originally a mediaeval fortalice of the Lords of Striguil or Chepstow.Itton Court, Devauden, British Listed Buildings. Retrieved 12 March 2016. The fortified manor house was later extended. The eastern front was built for the house's owner, John Jeffries, in the early 18th century. In 1749 the house was bought by John Curre whose family extended it and rebuilt parts, particularly in the late 19th century.
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Patrick Douglas of Kilspindie built a new "castell toure and fortalice" before 1600, perhaps as early as 1558. This was thought to have been oblong in plan. It seems probable that the castle would have been surrounded by an enclosing barmkin wall with gatehouse protecting stables, brewhouse, barns, etc. The barmkin in turn would have been surrounded by a deep ditch, filled by the tide and trapped there by wooden dams when the tide withdrew.
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C Gaston Perera p238 Governor of Ceylon, Dom Jerónimo de Azevedo now resolved to an economic war against Kandy.C Gaston Perera p240 He occupied the Balana fortalice and biannually made raids deep into Kandyan territory laying waste to the countryside.S.G. Perera p88-89 King Senarat was irresolute and with out mounting a defence fled to interior of the kingdom.C Gaston Perera p248 After 1609, realizing that Portuguese are determined to conquest Kandy, Senerat actively sought aid from the Dutch.
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Cessford Castle within its landscape Cessford was built around 1450 by Andrew Ker, an ancestor of Robert Ker, 1st Earl of Roxburghe, and of the Dukes of Roxburghe. It is from this place that the Duke takes his subsidiary titles: Baron Ker of Cessford, and Marquess of Bowmont and Cessford. It is possible that the castle incorporates parts of an earlier structure. The fortalice was built on an L-plan, with a main keep with a wing of almost the same magnitude.
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By the 1350s, the castle was surrounded by a manor which included mills for corn and fulling, lime kilns and coal mines. Work continued under Robert's son, John Manners, who inherited the property as a minor in 1354.; In 1355, when Sir Edward de Letham acquired the wardship of the property, the site was described as a fortalice, a weakly defended location, but by 1368, when the wardship passed to Joan, his widow, it was considered to be a fully-fledged castle.
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Until the 1920s almost all the houses and land were part of the Allexton Hall estate. The only old houses are the Old Rectory, Bridge House (formerly the Wilson's Arms) and the Cottage. The current Hall was rebuilt in 1902 but there have been other buildings on the site since Tudor times. In the 13th century the Lord lived in a fortalice (a moated manor house) the remains of which lie buried in a field adjacent to the present hall.
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It was steep and difficult to traverse, and during wartime the usual paths were obstructed with felled trees and "elephant thorn" (Acacia tomentosa). Invading armies often required scaling ladders to climb near-perpendicular rocks. The Kandyans, using this terrain to their advantage, fortified the pass with felled trees and stockades mounted with cannon. At the summit of the Balana pass a fortalice functioned as a lookout post that could give early warning of an approaching enemy (hence the name Balana, which means "lookout").
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Limasol began her racing career in the Acorn Stakes at Epsom Racecourse in June when she finished fourth behind Fortalice. She produced her best effort later that month when running second to the three-year-old Omladina in the Fernhill Stakes at Royal Ascot. On her third and final appearance of the season she was runner-up behind All Moonshine in the Prince of Wales's Nursery Plate at Doncaster Racecourse. Before the end of 1896, Limasol was sold to Samuel Allsopp, 2nd Baron Hindlip.
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" In 1673, a Crown Charter of Erection of the Lordship of Balvaird was granted in favour of David, Viscount Stormont. The subjects of the charter are narrated in English as "all and whole various lands incorporated into the Lordship and Barony of Balvaird, together with the tower, fortalice and manor place of Balvaird.” Records of the Parliament of Scotland to 1707, Ratification in favour of David Murray, viscount of Stormont, 6 June 1673 The Barony of Balvaird is one of several Scottish feudal Crown baronies.
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During the ensuing Battle of Melrose, Musgrave was unhorsed and forced to yield for ransom. With Musgrave and other leaders captured, the remaining English not already slain fled back to Berwick with news of their defeat. It is around this time that Archibald started work on his fortalice at Threave Castle, and endowed Sweetheart Abbey, near Dumfries, with an hospital. Rather than taking over Buittle, traditional seat of the Balliols during the construction of Threave, he took up residence at Kirkcudbright, traditional seat of the earlier Lords.
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Ferniehirst Castle, visitor centre The shorter arm of this L-plan fortalice is the 16th-century tower, containing the stair turret. The turnpike stair is in a spiral, corbelled out in the angle: apparently more for elegance than for necessity. There are many shot-holes, allowing a wide angle for musket fire, and of the more restricted shut-holes used for ventilation. The stair spirals counter- clockwise and is known as the "left-handed staircase" as it would put right- handed attackers at a disadvantage.
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However, the nature of the vaulting inside suggests that the core of an earlier fortalice was extensively rebuilt or extended at this time. Archibald Constable, the publisher, occupied it until 1815 and his son Thomas Constable was born here in 1812. It then became the home of the lawyer and literary critic Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey (1773–1850). Soon after he took on the tenancy, Jeffrey added a drawing room wing to the north, and in 1818 commissioned David Roberts to decorate the library.
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Queyroz, p. 488. In a last-ditch attempt to replenish themselves before retiring to the Balana fortalice; the Portuguese sent a raiding party to the village of Halloluwa, on the west bank of the Mahaveli River, several kilometers north of the encampment. This force consisted of 150 Portuguese soldiers under António Barbosa the Draque, Francisco Correia, and Álvaro de Sousa, with the 300 Lascarins under Pedro Afonso Mudali and Miguel Monteiro Mudali. They successfully raided the village and managed to capture a large quantity of rice.
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Castle Sinclair Girnigoe today. Castle Sinclair Girnigoe drawn in 1821 The earlier Castle Girnigoe was built by William Sinclair, the 2nd Earl of Caithness, probably sometime between 1476 and 1496, but certainly before his death at the Battle of Flodden in 1513. There is some evidence to suggest that the castle was built on the foundations of an earlier fortalice. In 1577, George Sinclair, the 4th Earl of Caithness, imprisoned his own son John, Master of Caithness, in Castle Girnigoe, on suspicion of rebelling against his rule.
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Margaret Scott, heiress of Monzie, deeded three-quarters of the lands in 1613 to her son, James Graeme, who later built a house on the property.Gifford, p. 540 It may have incorporated a earlier fortalice as there are garderobes in the walls of the west wing. The estate was sold to Colin Campbell of Lagvinshoch in 1666 and his descendant, General Alexander Campbell, MP, enlarged the house by adding a much larger castellated building on its east side in 1797–1800 that was designed by John Patterson.
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A depiction of the castle in 1794, by Paul Sandby In 1543, Henry VIII allied himself with Spain in a war against France. Despite Henry's initial successes, France and Spain made peace in 1544, leaving England exposed to a French invasion, backed by her allies in Scotland. In response, Henry issued an instruction to improve the country's defences, particularly along the south coast. Dartmouth Castle was reinforced by three new gun batteries, two either side of the gun tower, and another, Lamberd's Bulwarke, positioned in the south-east corner of the fortalice.
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The Eglinton Hunt regularly visited Craigie's hill, cover, knowes and glens in the 1900s. A kill resulted in a meal for the dogs and the bushy tail presented to the first lady.Walls, Pages 57 & 58 The small loch below the manse was used as the curling pond in the 1900s; the curling house ruins are still standing (2009).Walls, Page 62 In 1584 William Wallace of Ellerslie held the lands of Mains of Helentoun and Bogend, together with the tower, fortalice, and manor place of Helenton, together with half of the mill.
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The > style Burton achieved can be described as a sort of composite mock-Gothic, > combining elements from Middle English, the Authorized Version of the Bible > and Jacobean drama. Most modern readers will also find Burton's Victorian > vulgarisms jarring, for example ‘regular Joe Millers’, ‘Charleys’, and ‘red > cent’. Burton's translation of the Nights can certainly be recommended to > anyone wishing to increase their word-power: ‘chevisance’, ‘fortalice’, > ‘kemperly’, ‘cark’, ‘foison’, ‘soothfast’, ‘perlection’, ‘wittol’, > ‘parergon’, ‘brewis’, ‘bles’, ‘fadaise’, ‘coelebs’, ‘vivisepulture’, and so > on. ‘Whilome’ and ‘anent’ are standard in Burton's vocabulary.
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The first mention of Esslemont is as the 'manor of Eislemont' in the 14th century. The lands of Esslemont were passed by marriage from the family of Mareschal by marriage of the heiress Janet to Francis le Chen of Straloch in the 14th century. After the castle was burnt in 1493, Henry Cheyne undertook re-building via a king's licence dated 1500. In 1564 Patrick Cheyne was created baron of Esslemont by Queen Mary, who stayed here during her campaign against the Earl of Huntly, and a fortalice and tower were recorded in 1575–6.
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As stated it was built by John Maxwell, 4th Lord Herries, who had built Hoddom Castle on lower ground nearby and unwisely used stone from the Trailtrow Chapel that once stood on this site in the construction of his castle, with the result that Alexander Gordon, Archbishop of Glasgow may have required that a watch tower be built as recompense. It is surrounded by gravestones associated with the former chapel. The Repentance Tower on Trailtrow Hill. Its dimensions are similar to that of the average fortalice or tower and it is nearly square in section.
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The Captain- General made a speech to boost the morale of his men, calling upon their loyalty and honor. Then, after worshiping the crucifix held by the Jesuit priest Father António Esquipano, they began their march towards the Balana fortalice. Strengthened by defecting Lascarins and men from all regions of Kandy Kingdom, King Vimaladharmasuriya's army now numbered somewhere between ten and twenty thousand. He sent a small body of men to cut down trees in order to block the narrow, winding path to Balana known as the Danture tract.
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At Galle, they initially built a small fort out of palm trees and mud. They called it the Santa Cruz, and later extended it with a watch tower and three bastions and a "fortalice" to guard the harbour. Sea side wall of the Galle Fort In 1640, the events took a turn with the Dutch entering the fray joining hands with King Rajasinhe II to capture the Galle Fort. The Dutch, with a force of some 2,500 men under Koster, captured the fort from the Portuguese in 1640 itself.
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Map 26 by Timothy Pont of "Lower Angus and Perthshire east of the Tay" circa 1580s and 1590s It has been suggested that Balcraig was of wooden construction but this is not supported by the fact that a number of boulder stones were ploughed up in the vicinity of the site of the old castle some forty years ago (circa 1970). The size of the stones suggested that they were the foundations of a stone fortalice. There is also a diary record of the blowing up of the castle at Newtyle.
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The Frasers and Munros, esteemed the "bravest" clans in the north took the castle for the Queen in the Siege of Inverness (1562). Between 1569 and 1573 Andrew Munro, 5th of Milntown defended and held, for three years, the Castle Chanonry of Ross, which he had received from the Regent Moray who died in 1569, against the Clan MacKenzie, at the expense of many lives on both sides. The feud was settled when the castle was handed over to the Mackenzies by an "act of pacification".; In 1587, Foulis Castle's "tower and fortalice" are mentioned in a charter from the Crown.
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Surroundings and woodlands at Monkredding The present day entrance lodge. Thomas Nevin, the first laird, was successful in the coal mining trade and was wealthy enough to start building the present mansion. Monkredding House, sometimes written as Monkreddin, is a small, much-altered 'L' shaped fortalice, now with a large modern wing to the rear, dating from 1905, and built to plans by Hugh Thomson, JP and architect working in Saltcoats,Love, Page 56 who also built the porch and probably the Edwardian lodges.Hugh Thomson Retrieved : 2010-09-08 Monkredding's modern form surrounds three sides of a square, open to the north.
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Towering in the Bielsko-Biała city centre, the Castle is the oldest and largest construction of historical importance, erected in the old town of Bielsko. A legend says that in its place there used to be a settlement of robbers who attacked travelling merchants. The Opole Prince, Casimir (1229/30) of the Piasts is said to have conquered that fortalice, wiped out the robbers and had the hunting palace erected in that place, which over the years grew into a magnificent castle around which the city of Bielsko developed. The oldest part of the Castle dates back to 14th century.
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Colin McWilliam states that today's baronial mansion at Nunraw, built in 1860 in a castellated deep red sandstone, "incorporates the Hepburns' 16th-century tower house" although it would appear that the tower almost certainly dates from much earlier. Martine states that the fortalice was originally connected with the monastery at Haddington and cites Keith's Scottish History. The possession by the Lauder of The Bass family has already been noted. The old building consisted of a long block running east to west, with two square towers to the north-east and south-west, and round stair-turrets in the two north-west angles.
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On 4 March 1572 he was appointed Keeper of the fortalice of Lochwood, with the pertinents and lands in barony of Glasgow, and had a pass 23 April 1585 from James VI to go to France for three years, "having certain lefull effaires to do within the realm of France, and specialize for visiting of our traist cousing Robert, Lord Boyd". cites Paterson's Ayr, vol. ii. p. 177. He was appointed tutor to his nephew Hugh Montgomerie, 5th Earl of Eglinton, after the murder of his brother-in-law 18 April 1586. cites Paterson's Ayr, vol. iii. p. 443.
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The castles "tower and fortalice" are also mentioned in a charter from the crown in 1587. In times of clan warfare, a signal beacon was lit on the highest tower of Foulis Castle to gather the clan under arms, hence the Munro slogan or gathering cry of "Caisteal Foghlais na theine," meaning Castle Foulis ablaze. The castle survived up to the 18th century until it was attacked by Jacobites in 1746. Sir Robert Munro, 6th Baronet was killed at the Battle of Falkirk Muir in 1746 and the castle was sacked and burned by the Jacobites in the same year.
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After a terrible journey through the wilderness, and losing her horses to wolves and an icy river, Basia makes it back to the fortalice. She collapses exhausted in a fever and Zagloba sends for a doctor from Kamenyets who revives her from near death. Gorzenski, the commandant at Mohiloff, intercepts Azya's orders to his Tartars and kills the Mazovian infantry as well as sending a message to Yampol, thus saving it from destruction. The Ketlings arrive at Hreptyoff—Sobieski has appointed him commander of the artillery at Kamenyets—and Basia resolves to remain with Michael at Kamenyets as well.
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It did not see active service, but may have deterred the original plans of the French and Breton attack force in 1404, which, under the command of Tanneguy du Chastel, landed at Slapton Sands instead, where they were then dispersed by the local militia.; The Carew family subsequently built a family house in an inside corner of the fortalice. In 1481, Henry VII entered into fresh discussions with the town about the defences. In 1462, the Crown had agreed to pay Dartmouth £30 a year to maintain a chain across the harbour for twenty years, and the town were probably keen to extend this profitable arrangement before it expired.
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AWAA, Page 171 Helenton was a part of the Lands of Symington until it came to lie within the Barony of Sanquhar-Hamilton, named for the family of Hamilton of Sanquhar.Paterson, Page 748 James Stewart, Earl of Arran held the lands for a time, however they passed to the Wallaces of Craigie and in 1583-4 it is recorded that William Wallace of Ellerslie held the lands of Mains of Helentoun and Bogend, together with the tower, fortalice, and manor place of Helenton, together with half of the mill.Paterson, Page 749 William Wallace of Helenton is recorded as having married Elizabeth Cunningham of Kilmaronok (sic) in the mid 17th century.
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The troops marched to raise the siege, but the Earl of Douglas' indecision on a plan of attack is said to have perplexed Hamilton, and cause him to withdraw his support for the Douglas cause. Hamilton changed sides and became a partisan of the Royal party. There is evidence to suggest that Hamilton's uncle, James Livingstone, 1st Lord Livingston had a part in this change of heart. Douglas fled to England, his Castle of Abercorn was slighted, two of his brothers died at and following the Battle of Arkinholm; finally Douglas' great fortalice of Threave Castle fell and Douglas was attainted, all his enormous patrimony forfeit.
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On 5 June Limasol was one of eight fillies to contest the 119th running of the Oaks Stakes over one and a half miles at Epsom Racecourse. The 1000 Guineas winner Chelandry was regarded as a near certainty and went off at odds of 2/5 while Limasol, partnered by Walter Bradford, started the 100/8 third choice in the betting. The other contenders included Goletta (Coventry Stakes), Cortegar, Flying Colours and Galatia (2nd in the 1000 Guineas). In a major upset Limasol led from the start, shook off a challenge from Chelandry in the straight and drew away to win by three lengths with the 40/1 outsider Fortalice taking third place.
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Above the village is a distinctive conical hill, known as 'Tennis, Tinnis or Tinnie's Castle', a name derived from 'Thanes Castle'. Only a few walls of the old fortalice remained when it was visited by Francis Grose in 1790; it was used as a redoubt or citadel by the Lords of Tweedie and passed to the Hays family by marriage.Grose, page 224 The castle probably dates from the late 15th or early 16th centuries and may have been built by the Tweedies of nearby Drumelzier. The remains indicate a rectangular castle with curtain-walls that enclosed a courtyard with a tower-house at the south corner; circular towers were located at the north and west angles.
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The fortalice of the medieval Largo House was replaced as the laird's residence by the nearby Palladian Largo House built c. 1750 by James Durham.Was the home of Admiral Philip Charles Durham, who captained at Nelson's victory of Trafalgar in 1805 This now stands as a shell after being partially demolished by Charles Brand of Dundee Ltd in 1951, on the instructions of the owners, the Maitland-Makgill- Crichton family of Monzie Castle, Crieff, to avoid having to pay rates. The main block of the house is attributed to James Adam but recent research indicates that it may actually have been designed by John Douglas, an equally important architect and contemporary of the Adams.
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The old entrance lane to the castle Castle site with foundations McJannet records that De Morville had a moated hillock at Beith.McJannet, Page 91 This may have later been used as the Court Hill. Easter Hill of Beith was probably a castellated building such as a fortalice or tower house, close to Nether or Hill of Beith Mains, half a mile south-west of the Grange, the monks farm where the abbot of Kilwinning may have stayed when in the locality if not at the castle site itself, overlooking their loch and their court hill. In the early 1600s the fortified dwelling is referred to as Easter-Hill of Byith a pretty building, veill planted belonging to Johne Cuninghame.
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Henry agreed to pay £150 over five years for the construction of a new artillery tower, with an annual subsidy of £30 towards the maintenance costs, later increased to £40 a year. The new tower was placed alongside the old fortalice, using stone from Cornworthy and Kingsbridge and a team of up to 12 stonemasons. The project dragged on until fears of a French invasion grew in 1486; two "great murderer" guns were installed and by 1492 there were four murderer and twelve serpentine guns installed there. The tower was finally completed in 1495, with a protective chain linking to the other side of the river supported by small boats called "cobbellys", where it was protected by a tower at Godmerock.
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Elizabeth de Eglintoun, as sole heiress, married John Montgomerie of Eaglesham, to whom the estates and possessions passed, including the barony of Ardrossan. Masons marks, door jambs, face carving, etc. at Seagate Castle Seagate Castle, probably the third castle in Irvine's historical timeline, is not a typical town lodging, having some of the characteristics of a castle or fortalice, built as a showpiece between 1562–85,Close, Page 56 in style more a palace, place, or mansion house. Montgomerie Coat of Arms of the late seventeenth century The castle is thought by some to incorporate the remnants of the strong twelfth-century castle of 'Irewin', described as being a stronghold of some strength in 1184, however, this has not been verified.
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An early fortalice was held by the Spens, or Spence, family, possibly vassals of their over lord, the Gospatric Earls of Dunbar. The Douglas family acquired Kilspindie around the start of the 16th century when, in a feud with Spens of Kilspindie, Archibald "Bell-the-cat", 5th Earl of Angus, tore off Spens' leg with one stroke of his great sword. The Douglas family came into ownership of the lands of Aberlady through rights bestowed by the Crown and Gavin Douglas, Bishop of Dunkeld, perhaps indicating a transfer of the name Kilspindie from the village of the same name in Perthshire. Later use by Sir Archibald Douglas of Kilspindie of the title "Greysteil" may refer to the sword stroke used to obtain the lands of Kilspindie.
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Plan of the north part of the castle site: A – north gun platform; B – gun tower (harbour chain); C – gun tower (guns); D – Saint Petrox Church; E – south gun platform Dartmouth Castle occupies a rocky outcrop, overlooking the entrance to Dartmouth harbour. On the north side of the site is the main gun tower, looking out across the River Dart, and Saint Petrox Church; to the south-east is the Old Battery, facing out to sea. In the south-west corner are the remains of the original fortalice defences, consisting of a corner tower, part of the moat and parts of the wall, thick and up to high.; ; The gun tower dates from the end of the end of the 15th century, and is the oldest known purpose-built coast artillery fort in Britain.
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Kennedy – sometimes spelt as Kynidy – had been appointed as hereditary Constable of Aberdeen by the Duke of Albany in appreciation for his actions during the Battle of Harlaw. A fortification was constructed at some point after the purchase date of the land and before 1500; originally known as the Fortalice of Ardgith, the castle was likely built by the Kennedy of Kermuck – sometimes recorded as Kinmuck – family and was used as their family seat. According to the archaeology historian W. Douglas Simpson the basement vault dates to the 15th century and pre-dates any later remains. The castle was reconstructed in the late 16th century that, according to Simpson, was undertaken by the masons John and Thomas Leiper, who were also responsible for work at nearby Tolquhon Castle, the House of Schivas and Castle Fraser.
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The lands of Trabboch (pronounced 'Traaboch') are first recorded by name in a rental of 1303-4. King Robert the Bruce gave the 'L-plan' castle to the Boyds of Kilmarnock for services rendered at the Battle of Bannockburn in 1314, as revealed in an undated charter in the Register of the Great Seal, stating that King Robert I granted the 'lands of Trebach' in Kyle-Regis to Robert Boyd. Following the fall from favour of the Boyds in 1469 Paterson records that the fortalice of Trabach was forfeited to the crown, reportedly for the use of the eldest sons of the Kings of Scotland.Paterson, Page 17 The RCAHMS state By 1451 the lands had passed into the hands of William, Earl of DouglasRCAHMS Retrieved : 2011-04-17 and later to the Boswells of Auchinleck.
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A castle on this site was, from the mid-13th century, the seat of the King family. An earlier castle associated with the hereditary Forester and Coroner of the Garioch, a Blackhall, may be incorporated in the main block and south-eastern wing, but the present castle owes its form mainly to George Seton, chancellor of the University of Aberdeen, Tutor and Vicar of Meldrum who was granted the estate in 1598. A charter of 1599 to George Seton, tutor of Meldrum, mentions the erection of the lands of Barra as a free barony, while a charter of 1615, ordains that the 'fortalice of Barra' is to be the chief seat of the barony. James Reid, an Aberdeen advocate, was in possession of the estate by 1630, and the Reid family retained it until 1754.
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Thirty-seven other dwellings were listed within the barony of Eglinton.Urquhart, Page 92 The stables were built from stones taken from the Easter Chambers of Kilwinning Abbey; being the Abbots lodgings and later that of the Earls of Eglinton. In 1784, over a period of four months, the building was demolished and the stones were taken to Eglinton.Service, Page 140 The construction of the new castle was not universally accepted as beneficial; Fullarton records that "The hoary grandeur of the old fortalice lay deeply buried amid the dense groves of immemorial growth which closely invested and obscured it; no innovating projects of improvement, nor change of any kind, had ever been permitted to disturb the sanctity of its seclusion, or to ruffle the feelings even of the most fastiduous worshipper of things as they are, or, more properly perhaps, chance to be".
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Some credit the same Sir Richard Cox with its destruction as a means to source material to build both his mansion and the "Market House", as well as the "Long Bridge" which spans the River Bandon to the east of the town. According to Rev Lyons and Gillman, the castle walls did not disappear until about 1830. George Bennett records in his 1869 publication History of Bandon: > There is not even one stone left upon another of this famous old > fortalice... as its walls, and its very foundations, were uprooted some > years ago, to furnish building-stone for the erection of a flour-mill in the > vicinity. Bennett also noted: > While the workman were engaged in this work of demolition, and blotting out > every trace of this-the first stone castle that was ever erected in this > part of Carbery-they came upon a subterraneous chamber.
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The name Ravenscraig or Reuincraig is derived from 'Ruin Crag', i.e. ruined castle. Godfrey de Ross and his family of Corsehill Castle were Lords of Liddesdale in the Borders and later on the Cunninghames became the holders. Corsehill (also Crosshill) castle is said to have been on the east side of the Corsehill Burn. Corsehill Castle, alias 'Ravenscraig' showing the remains left after the railway demolished most of the ruins The 1860 OS map does record the site of Templehouse which had a small fortalice associated with it and its site was at Darlington, the village which lay just beyond Stewarton on the Kingsford road before the East Burn. Corsehill castle is shown in one old print of 1691 by Gross as Corsehill House and substantial remains existed until the railway was constructed and most of the ruins were used to build the embankment.
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On 5 July 1568, at Edinburgh, Gasper Home was granted an escheat of the goods of Robert Lauder of The Bass, including his cattle and other goods on the steading and lands of Eddringtoun and the dues of the mill thereof, in the sheriffdom of Berwick, the said Robert being convicted as a fugitive for taking part with Archibald, Earl of Argyll, Claud Hamilton, and others in the battle of Langside in support of Mary, Queen of Scots. On 22 September 1568, at Edinburgh, a Precept of Remission was granted to Robert Lauder of Bass, Sir Robert Lauder of Popill, his son and heir apparent, John and Patrick Lauder, his sons, William Aslowane, servitor of the said laird ('servitoris dicti domini'), Charles Lauder, servitor of the said Robert in The Bass, and Archibald Lauder, also servitor of the said Sir Robert, for taking part with others at Langside, and for the treasonable keeping of the castle and fortalice of The Bass against the King (sic) and his authority after the said Robert had been commanded to deliver it.
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