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	Cawdor Castle (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Cawdor Castle is famous for its associations with Shakespeare's MacBeth.
		The Thanedom of Cawdor was promised to MacBeth by the witches, and people like to imagine that the castle was the setting for the murder of Duncan.
		In 1454 King James II permitted the Thane of Cawdor to erect and fortify his castle.
	freespace.virgin.net /davie.wilson/Castles/cawdor.htm (69 words)

	Clan Campbell Society (NA) - Cawdor Castle
		Cawdor, originally Calder or Caddel, had been a Thanedom to the east of Inverness for centuries before the castle was built.
		Muriel was a red haired infant when her father died and the Earl, sensing that his control of the destiny of the child would not be easy at such a distance, decided to have her brought to Argyll.
		The late Earl and the Countess of Cawdor lived in the castle in winter and elsewhere on their estates in summer so that the place could be opened to the public.
	www.ccsna.org /castles/cawdor.html (1270 words)

	Cawdor - Encyclopedia.com
		Cawdor Castle, the earliest remaining piece dating from 1454, was represented by Shakespeare, following tradition, as the scene of the slaying (1040) of Duncan by Macbeth.
		Curse of Cawdor 'Macbeth's castle' is once again the setting for a bitter dynastic struggle A book by Lady Liza Campbel has reignited a family feud with claims of sex, drugs and lost fortunes.
		Now, the daughter of the womanising Earl of Cawdor is wreaking her revenge with a sensational new book laying bare his depravity...
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-Cawdor.html (664 words)

	Cawdor
		Their castle still stands in the fertile lands south of the Moray Firth which enjoy an exceptionally fine climate for their latitude, and it is said that the lord of Cawdor had selected this pleasant location in 1454 by letting loose a donkey laden with gold, and observing the spot where it stopped to rest.
		In this operation Sir John of Cawdor was assisted by the 7th Earl of Argyll, who became a Catholic and ended his days in exile.
		In 1624 Cawdor too was converted to the Catholic faith by the Irish Franciscan Father Corneilus Ward.
	members.tripod.com /~ChipDoc/Cawdor.html (637 words)

	Haunted Scottish Castles
		The castle became part of the Campbell "empire" when Muriel Calder, heiress to the castle, was kidnapped at the age of 12 and married to the Earl of Argyll's son, Sir John Campbell in 1511.
		The ghost which haunts the upper floors of the castle is reputed to be the daughter of the 14th Earl of Sutherland who was imprisoned by her father to stop her from marrying someone he regarded as unsuitable.
		The 4th Earl of Bothwell was visited at Hermitage by Mary Queen of Scots who later married him.
	www.rampantscotland.com /features/haunted.htm (2849 words)

	The Campbells of Cawdor
		Cawdor Castle is perched upon a low rock overhanging the bed of a rushing stream, and is surrounded on all sides by forest-trees of a large size.
		In the autumn of 1499, the Earl sent Campbell of Inverliver, with a band of sixty stout clansmen, to Kilravock, to convey the child to Inverary to be educated in the Argyll household.
		On the death of Earl Colin, he was one of six persons appointed to advise the Countess in the management of the earldom during the minority of her son, ‘quhais counsal,’ said the Earl in his will, ‘my said spous sall follow in all the thinges concerning the weill of my son and his countre.
	www.electricscotland.com /webclans/families/cambells_cawdor.htm (2561 words)

	CalendarHome.com - - Calendar Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Arthur James Balfour, 1st Earl of Balfour, KG, OM, PC, (25 July 1848-19 March 1930) was a British Conservative politician and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1902 to 1905.
		His father was an MP; his mother, a member of the Cecil family descended from Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury, was the daughter of the 2nd Marquess of Salisbury and a sister to the 3d Marquess, the future Prime Minister.
		The Duke of Wellington · Sir Robert Peel · The Earl of Derby · Benjamin Disraeli · The Marquess of Salisbury ·
	encyclopedia.calendarhome.com /cgi-bin/encyclopedia.pl?p=Arthur_Balfour (2814 words)

	Toil and trouble in Cawdor castle - theage.com.au
		A judge stopped short of evicting Lord Cawdor, the 7th earl and 25th thane of that ilk, and his wife and three children, but agreed that he had broken the conditions that the castle in the Scottish Highlands cannot be used as a family home.
		She added: "It is particularly galling that Lord Cawdor chose to occupy the castle almost as soon as I had left the country for a break at the end of a long and difficult tourist season at Cawdor.
		In the village of Cawdor, where most of the residents work for the estate, few were prepared to comment on the row between their aristocratic employers.
	www.theage.com.au /articles/2002/11/08/1036308481724.html (570 words)

	VISCOUNTCIES IN THE PEERAGE OF THE UNITED KINGDOM
		72 Viscountcy of Windsor of Saint Fagans 18 December 1905(The Viscountcy belongs to and is held by the Earl of Plymouth).
		75 Viscountcy of Hawkesbury of Kirkham 22 December 1905(The Viscountcy belongs to and is held by the Earl of Liverpool).
		77 Viscountcy of Mentmore of Mentmore 3 July 1911 (The Viscountcy belongs to the Earldom of Midlothian and is held by the Earl of Rosebery and Midlothian).
	www.hulthenhem.se /peer/viscountuk.htm (2343 words)

	News \| Telegraph
		Angelika, the Dowager Countess Cawdor, took legal action in November against her stepson, the Earl of Cawdor, claiming that he had breached the terms of a lease when he moved into the castle while she was on holiday.
		A judge stopped short of evicting Lord Cawdor, and his wife and three children, but agreed that he had broken a condition that the castle in the Highlands could not be used as a family home.
		The castle has been the ancestral seat of the Thanes of Cawdor - Macbeth was the most famous thane - since the late 14th century and was left to the Czech-born countess by her late husband, the 6th Earl of Cawdor.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/06/02/ncawd02.xml (505 words)

	Clan MacGillivray
		At left, are arms from Cawdor Church, dated 1513 and attributed to Muriel Calder of that Ilk, granddaughter and sole heiress of William, Thane of Cawdor.
		Archibald Campbell, 2nd Earl of Argyll, appointed as ward for Muriel, kidnapped her and married her to his third son John in 1510, securing at Cawdor a new northern branch of the vastly acquisitive Campbell hegemony.
		As the new Thanes (Earls) of Cawdor, this branch of the Campbells added a stag's head cabossed (sable, attired gules) to the first quarter of their arms to signify the acquisition.
	www.mcgillivray.us /earlyarms.html (1323 words)

	Scottish Castles (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Braemar Castle was originally built by the Earls of Mar in the 17th century to reinforce their control of the area.
		The ancestral seat of the Dukes and Earls of Sutherland, Dunrobin was originally built in the late 13th century by Robert, 2nd earl of Sutherland.
		The castle was captured in 1313 by the Scottish army led by the Earl of Moray, the nephew of Robert Bruce.
	freespace.virgin.net /davie.wilson/Castles/castt.htm (2823 words)

	Campbells of Cawdor and Campbells of Shawfield on Islay
		Campbells of Cawdor and Campbells of Shawfield on Islay
		Eleanor herself died in 1832 and was buried in a sarcophagus in Bowmore Church.
		From the establish- ment of the Kingdom of Dalriada in Argyll by Fergus Mor in AD 500, through to the forfeiture of the Lordship at the end of the 15th century, this is Scotland's history told in narrative style.
	www.islayinfo.com /islay_campbells_campbell.html (1918 words)

	Cawdor Castle
		Cawdor is a very fine castle with an ancient keep c.1380 at its core, and is surrounded by lesser wings and three courtyards.
		The vaulted ground floor of the tower still has the remains of a holly tree which grew on the site, and tradition says this is where the builder’s donkey lay down to rest, thus choosing the tower’s location.
		The Campbells still own the estate, and were created Earls of Cawdor in 1827.
	www.highlandtraveller.com /sites/castles/cawdor.html (294 words)

	Unexplained Mysteries :: Browsing all column articles
		Cawdor Castle is sited a few miles away from Nairn and is home to a particularly tragic ghost.
		Believed to be the daughter of the Earl of Cawdor, she fell in love with a man from an opposing family.
		When the Earl stumbled upon the couple, he was incensed to the point of cutting off his daughter’s hands to put a stop to the affair.
	www.unexplained-mysteries.com /columnindex.php?p=1 (1168 words)

	Castle Duncan Forums > Cawdor Castle
		Lady Cawdor raised an action almost two years ago against the trustees of the Cawdor Estates Pension Scheme, among them her stepson Colin, the seventh earl, with whom she had been in a much-publicised dispute over the tourism management of the 550-year-old ancestral home.
		Cawdor Castle was left entirely to the countess when her husband, the sixth earl, died in 1993.
		Lord Cawdor, Cawdor Castle, states that the name 'Old Cawdor' appears on an 18th-century estate map, in a field to the SW of Brackla House, in the area centred NH 858 512.
	www.castleduncan.com /forum/lofiversion/index.php/t1110.html (742 words)

	The Scotsman - Wrong message rekindles Cawdor feuding
		The main players - the Dowager Countess Cawdor and her stepson, the 25th Thane and 7th Earl of Cawdor - took centre stage again yesterday, with their ongoing row attracting as much attention as the landmark.
		Lady Cawdor, 58, said: "It would appear that my stepson and the Cawdor Family Trustees, who are the major shareholders of the old company, have had the telephone removed and this entirely misleading message recorded.
		Lady Cawdor said that the situation is ironic as the duke operates his own home, Floors Castle, as a tourist attraction, and would be aware how damaging a message like this could be.
	thescotsman.scotsman.com /index.cfm?id=639992003 (939 words)

	THE LATE TREASURER - THE HISTORY OF THE LONDON HOMOEOPATHIC HOSPITAL - Presented by Peter Morrell & Sylvain Cazalet
		The late Frederick Archibald Vaughan Campbell, Earl Cawdor and Viscount Emlyn in the Peerage of the United Kingdom, and Baron Cawdor in that of Great Britain, passed away in 1911.
		Lord Cawdor was indentified with the London Homopathic Hospital as Treasurer from 1894 till the year of his death, and during those years there was no one better know in connection with the institution or more representative of it.
		In 1903 Lord Cawdor again presided at a dinner and raised a sum of £ 5,731 to replace the debt due to capital funds.
	www.homeoint.org /morrell/londonhh/latetrea.htm (474 words)

	InfoHub - Cawdor Castle (Site not responding. Last check: )
		This palatial range of buildings belongs to the Earl of Cawdor, whose family has owned the castle since the 16th century.
		The tower which resulted was substantial, and the lower parts of it survive today, heightened by one of the Cawdors in the 16th century.
		In the 15th century it was enclosed by a deep ditch with drawbridge across.
	www.infohub.com /forums/printthread.php?t=4614 (120 words)

	Sabbatical 2001-2 : Cawdor Castle : day 17
		Cawdor was described by Robin Fedden as having a quality where "distant past and present rarely seem to meet with so little loss." An earlier writer thought that the components of the house "all conspire to excite the most gloomy inquiry in the mind." A man of few words called the house "very effective."
		The mantlepiece commemorates the marriage in 1510 between Sir John Campbell of Argyll and Muriel Calder of Cawdor.
		One of the most striking aspects of Cawdor is the forest along the stream, filled with trees gathered over centuries from all over the world.
	solarnet.org /Travel/SCO/jour017.htm (1417 words)

	Cawdor Castle, near Inverness, Highlands of Scotland
		Cawdor Castle is located 12 miles east of Inverness in the eastern heart of the Scottish Highlands.
		Two ghosts are said to haunt Cawdor Castle, one a lady in a blue velvet dress, the other is thought to be John Campbell, the first Lord Cawdor.
		This is one of most fascinating episodes in Cawdor's history and dates back to the end of the 15th century when following the untimely death of the 8th Thane, the sole heiress was his baby daughter Muriel Calder.
	www.castles.org /Chatelaine/CAWDOR.HTM (1199 words)

	Cawdor Castle Official Website - Macbeth - Nairn, Scotland
		A pithy, but not the most helpful explanation was given by the 5th Earl Cawdor: "I wish the Bard had never written his damned play!"
		This opportunity was not lost on Shakespeare, who put the finishing touches to the script in time for a special royal performance at Hampton Court that same summer to entertain the King and his brother-in-law, Christian IV, King of Denmark.
		The truth is that as Cawdor Castle was not built until the late 14th century, it is impossible for King Duncan to have lost any blood or Lady Macbeth much sleep in this particular house.
	www.cawdorcastle.com /macbeth.cfm (469 words)

	Cawdor Castle
		The first Thane of Cawdor was appointed in 1236 by Alexander II.
		Clan Campbell obtained control of the fortification by capturing the 12 year old heiress in 1511 and marrying her to the Earl of Argyll's son.
		The Campbells kept the castle and gave refuge to Lord Lovet during the Jacobite Rising in 1746.
	www.darkisle.com /c/cawdor/cawdor.html (111 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Scotland \| Highlands and Islands \| Countess in rival plan for Nairn
		The Earl of Cawdor said more housing and a new golf course will help the former Victorian spa resort reclaim its title as the Brighton of the North.
		Cawdor Maintenance Trust, of which the countess is one of the trustees, has appointed Edinburgh-based planning consultant Farningham McCreadie.
		Four years ago, the countess tried to have her stepson Colin Robert Vaughan Campbell - the seventh Earl of Cawdor and 25th Thane of Cawdor - and his family evicted from the castle after they moved in while she was on holiday.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/scotland/highlands_and_islands/5255376.stm (652 words)

	Clan Crest Badges page two
		The seat of the clan chief is Inverary Castle on Loch Fyne.
		They were granted the lands by the Earl of Douglas in return for their support in struggles for power in the late 1300's.
		They were closely associated with James V and James VI, a Catherine Carmichael having borne an illegitimate son by James V. The current chief, Richard Carmichael of Carmichael is very active in support of the worldwide Clan Carmichael Society.
	www.scottishcrofters.com /clan_crest_badges_page_two.htm (481 words)

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		The Earl had a family of four sons and seven daughters; and it was the lot of one of these sons to become the ancestor of another line of Campbells now represented by the Earl Cawdor.
		The third Earl died in March 1529, having married a daughter of the Earl of Huntly, the leader of the Catholics in the north; but Argyll’s son, the fourth Earl, was the first prominent Scottish nobleman who supported the Protestant religion.
		Archibald became fifth Earl, and was an ardent supporter of Mary, Queen of Scots, and even commanded a section of her army at Langside.
	www.scotscommunity.com /BOOKS/CASTLES/Inverary.htm (4743 words)

	Cawdor Castle, Inverness, Scotland
		Cawdor had been an ancient Thanedom (Earldom) long before the castle was built.
		The entrance door, has a huge iron bolt across it, which came from nearby Lochindorb Castle around 1455 when the Thane of Cawdor was instructed to dismantle Lochindorb after it had been forfeited by the Earl of Moray.
		She was married off to the Earls third son at the age of 11, but the marriage was a happy one, and when her husband died she returned to Cawdor as Thane.
	www.scotland-calling.com /forts/cawdor.htm (471 words)

	The Scotsman - Sacked chef caught in an aristocratic feud
		The rift began in 1993, when the Dowager Countess Cawdor inherited the 14th century castle near Inverness instead of her stepson and the natural heir, Lord Colin Campbell, following the death of her husband, Hugh, the 6th Earl of Cawdor.
		Mr Nelson, of Achindoune Cottage, Cawdor, who is still chef to the dowager countess, said he was not disappointed at the findings and did not think he would be appealing the decision.
		The Dowager Countess Cawdor, who is estranged from all five of her husband's children, added: "Martin has worked for me for 15 years, initially with Cawdor Castle Tourism Ltd and now with our new company, Cawdor Castle Ltd. He was forced to take his case to an industrial tribunal after his dismissal.
	thescotsman.scotsman.com /index.cfm?id=18112004 (704 words)

	Game Shooting in Scotland with Roxton Bailey Robinson - UK and Worldwide game shooting and country pursuits (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Owned by the Earl of Cawdor, this stunningly beautiful estate is the epitome of what brings the shooting fraternity to Scotland.
		Picturesque heather-clad hills and moorland ravines are the backdrop to one of the finest high partridge shoots in Scotland, a grouse shoot that is going from strength to strength and an array of fabulous sporting opportunities that include salmon fishing on the river Findhorn and stalking for roe deer.
		The keeper at Cawdor is renowned for his inimitable professionalism, whose pride in his work even involves laying out the day’s bag in perfect order around an oak tree.
	www.roxtons.com /locations/152 (196 words)

	Earl plans to restore Nairn to former glory - Scottish Architecture News
		The Earl of Cawdor yesterday unveiled an ambitious plan to help reinstate Nairn as "the Brighton of the North".
		In the 19th century, Nairn was a thriving health resort, and for much of the 20th century it continued to attract visitors from across Scotland to its beaches.
		Now the seventh Earl and 25th Thane, who is the local landowner and an architect, is promoting a drive for the town's expansion south and westwards which he hopes will feed in to Highland Council's strategic thinking
	uk.archiseek.com /scotland/news/2006/000120.html (234 words)

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