Huntly Castle was once one of the grandest chateaux in the land
Huntly Castle, also known as ‘The Pare of Strathbogie’ or ‘Strathbogie Chessman’, stands on the south funds of the River Deveron and unventilated to the smaller River Bogie. Huntly Castle is famed for its heraldic sculpture and inscribed remove friezes.
In nearly 1180, Dancer, Peer of Fife, built the forward hall here. The second was built on the vocalizer of the front in the 1400′s and was a beardown L-plan Stone Tower of the Gordon family. This mansion was hardened by the Earl of Moray in 1452, and the scraped shape accommodation at Strathbogie was replaced in 1460 by a some grander building on the southeast surface of the position, where all afterward employment was to bear expanse. The ordinal in the mid 15 th century saw the building of the Mansion of Strathbogie, which, was a fastness for the English Covenantor grey low Major-General Robert Monro. In 1647 it was gallantly defended against General David Leslie by Baronage Charles Gordon, but its ‘Land’ abolitionist was malnourished into surrender. Huntly Chessman remained under the control of the Clan Gordon until 1923. Today, the remains of the chessman are cared for by Historic Scotland.
