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Noltland Castle, On the Island of Westray, Orkney, Scotland (UK). Is a ruined castle that was built in the 1560's by the Bishop Of Orkney, Adam Bothwell. During the 1500's, scotland was a politically chaotic place. Especialy since this was during the time in which Mary, Queen of scots was in power. Queen Mary was a catholic, and her sister, Elizabeth the first of england, was a Protestant, and had Outlawed catholicism in england. For this reason there was increadably high tension between england and scotland and most members of parliament differed radically from eachother, this meant that many landowners started fighting with eachother. Mary's Cousin was a man called Gilbert Balfour, due to his connection to mary he had gained himself many enemy's. After Balfour and his brother's laid seig

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  • Noltland Castle, On the Island of Westray, Orkney, Scotland (UK). Is a ruined castle that was built in the 1560's by the Bishop Of Orkney, Adam Bothwell. During the 1500's, scotland was a politically chaotic place. Especialy since this was during the time in which Mary, Queen of scots was in power. Queen Mary was a catholic, and her sister, Elizabeth the first of england, was a Protestant, and had Outlawed catholicism in england. For this reason there was increadably high tension between england and scotland and most members of parliament differed radically from eachother, this meant that many landowners started fighting with eachother. Mary's Cousin was a man called Gilbert Balfour, due to his connection to mary he had gained himself many enemy's. After Balfour and his brother's laid seig
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  • Noltland Castle, On the Island of Westray, Orkney, Scotland (UK). Is a ruined castle that was built in the 1560's by the Bishop Of Orkney, Adam Bothwell. During the 1500's, scotland was a politically chaotic place. Especialy since this was during the time in which Mary, Queen of scots was in power. Queen Mary was a catholic, and her sister, Elizabeth the first of england, was a Protestant, and had Outlawed catholicism in england. For this reason there was increadably high tension between england and scotland and most members of parliament differed radically from eachother, this meant that many landowners started fighting with eachother. Mary's Cousin was a man called Gilbert Balfour, due to his connection to mary he had gained himself many enemy's. After Balfour and his brother's laid seige on St.Andrews castle. They were kidnapped and accused of the murder of Cardinal Beaton, a Ship owner who happened to be in the castle at the time. As a punishment, the brothers where sent to work as Sailors for the french navy. The Bishop of Orkney, Adam Bothwell, was Balfour's brother-in-law, heard this news and decided he was going to help his relatives. He sent a message to Balfour for him to run away to orkney in order to hide from the law. Balfour and his followers done this, and they then built Noltland Castle for them to live and hide in. Queen Mary however started to lose power and eventualy decided to blame this partly on Gilbert Balfour for abandoning her. She declared balfour a treasoner and sent the Stewarts to go and take over Noltland Castle. They Done this, and Balfour escaped to Sweden where he was executed, after attempting to assasanate the king of sweden. After this the castle (And Orkney) Fell into the ownership of the Stewarts, the stewarts expanded the castle by giving it a courtroom and a garden. However they then left and the castle has since fallen into ruin. the castle is haunted.
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