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102 Proceedings of the '!Society 2 PROCEEDING10 '!SOCIETY"E TH F O S , 'DECEMBER 10,^ 1928, in, E EARLTH Y CASTLE P MARSO . (FIRST PAPER.) Br W. DOUGLAS SIMPSON, M.A., D.LITT., F.S.A.ScoT. I. INTRODUCTORY. e ancienTh t Provincr compriseMa f o ee distric th d t betweee th n d Donan river ,e wit e uppeDe s th hd middl an r e basin f boto s h these streams,1 including the north bank of the Don as far eastward as the western boundar e paristh f f Inverurieo y ho e soutth d h an ban, f o k the Dee down to the Water of Feugh.2 In upper Deeside the water- dividek Es r fro e e Tannedmth Ma th she d f Angus;o dan r n middli 3 e Deeside, from very early times the parish of Banchory-Ternan, bounded westward by the Water of Canny and to the east by the parish of Drumoak, formed a broad salient of Mearns on the north bank of the river n uppeI . r Donside, wher a sweee f opeo p n country extends northward from Kildrummy into "fair Strathbogie land," the march separating Mar from Strathbogie appears to have been usually, and finally, drawn on the parochial boundary between Clova and Auchin- doir, but in certain early writs Auchindoir is included in the parish of Kildrummy. Further east e parisheth , f Kearo s Clatt,d nan wite th h strong castle of Drumminor, are variously described as belonging to e Gariochth o t t see bu d Ma, man r more frequentl o havt y e been counted in the latter.4 In this connection the name Marchmar, borne e wester th a far y n mb o n underslop f Badingaio e w no re th Hill n i , combined paris f Auchindoio h d Kearnan r , appears suggestive.e b o t 6 Onauthorityd eol , however, tells consideres specificallu swa t i w dho y by some that the Garioch "was bounded to the west by the small burn that runs har y Castlb d e Forbes [Drumminor], making Castle 1 " Marrice pars inferior, quce oceano propinquior, fluminibus DonaDea et coercetur;in superioribus, extra ilia exspatiatur, longitudine insignis, latitudine impar"—Robert Gordon of Straloch, Prcefecturarum Aberdonensis et Banflensis Nova Descriptio (A.D. 1654), in Collec- tions on the Shires of Aberdeen and Banff, p. 24. "'Tis bounded at first with rivers (Dee and Don) for about fifteen miles upward, and after that with mountains "—" View of the Diocese of Aberdeen," by A. Keith (1732), ibid., p. 83. J "Hie primum Marria Deam limitein trahet"—Gordon,. cit.,. 25 . op p 3 " Post hanc, Tanerus amnis Deam subit, ortus e iugis tnontium qui Angusice et Marrice limites faciunt" —ibid., p. 25. 4 Hie loci Mcvrria, catenam montium supergressa, parochiam Clet, arcemque Drimminnor, cum latifundiis Baronis Parliamentarii de Forbes, subtrahere videtur Gariochice et Strath- Bogice-—ibid.,. 27 . p 5 See A. Jervise, Epitaphs and Inscriptions from Old Burial Grounds and Old Buildings in the North-East of Scotland, vol. ii. p. 211. THE EARLY CASTLES OF MAR. 103 Forbes and all above it a part of Marr, and not of the Garioch."1 The sea-coast of Mar was limited to the two miles of sandy beach between the mouths of the Dee and the Don,2 containing the royal burgh of Aberdeen, with its castle and harbour—"bone chastelle et bone ville sur la meer,"s as it is described in Edward Ist's itinerary of 1296. Mar, says one old writer, " is reckoned the chief district in all Aberdeen- e largestshire th t containi s i s , a ,t i e botsea th s sa e h t th bot f o h ecclesiasti e reckone d civiar e peopl t an cth i l e s n judgea i eth d d an , most ingenious, excelling both in arts and arms. Hence it is said by r poetou on f seo (John Barclay): ' Marria sic amata Musis' ' Mar by all the Muses loved'; and again in a common rhyme: 'The brave bowme f Mar.no ' And on these accounts it is that even the whole shire is sometimes called the shire of Mar."4 The dimensions of the Province are thus given: " It is reckoned sixty miles long, though inhabite t aboudbu t forty miles upwardsd an ; in the lower parts, while it is bounded with the two rivers, eight, in the upper parts almost sixteen broad." This enormous area of country was administratively divided in medieva5 l times into five great lord- ships, each with its capital messuage. The Lordship of Braemar included the Dee valley west of the Gairn, and its capital messuage was the important castle of Kindrochit. The Lordship of Cromar0 comprised remarkablthe e basi flanof t country, knowHowthe Cromarneas of , 1 "Descriptio e Garioch,th r Gordonf M no y b " , Ministe t Alforda r r Willia,M 1724d man , Robertson, in Macfarlane's Geographical Collections, ed. Sir A. Mitchell, vol. i. p. 12. 2 "Marr, lying bet ween the rivers Dee and Don, hath about two miles of sea-coast"—"Descrip- tio f Aberdeenshire,no r SamueSi y "b l Forbe f Foveranso , Collections Shirese th n f Aberdeeno o and Banff, p. 34. Historical Documents Relating Scotland,o t . StevensonJ . ed . 29 ,. volp . ii . 24 " Dioces e Vieth f w o Aberdeenf eo Collections,n "i ut supra, poe e . 81-2Th pp m . quotes di by William Barclay, M.D. (circa 1570-circo Joh.y 1630)b t n Barclayno , . 5 Ibid., . 83-4pp . 8 Mr F. C. Diack, M.A., Aberdeen, has kindly supplied the following note on the name Cromar. "The Gaelic origina f Engliso l h 'Cromar s stili ' l availabl livinn i e g speec n Braemai h d an r Strathspey fore th , m I hear d being Cro-Mharr, literally '(sheep) fol f e Mar.poino d Th f o t' applying sheepfold' metaphoricaa n districe i ' th o t readil s i ty lwa y apparent reference th ; o t s ei the resemblance which the area, a more or less level plain almost entirely surrounded by hills, objecte bearth similao A st . rCroe casKintaif th o s ei Wesn i l t GaeliBossr itseln i s Ma i f. c Marr, often written and pronounced Marr; the long vowel however is not original, but is due to the long liquid. In Braemar and Strathspey the pronunciation with short vowel and long liquid is heard. The origin of the word is obscure ; presumably it is a tribal name, and, in view of the genitive Mair in the Annals of Ulster, 1014, originally a divinity name. The stem mar—, ' last, endure,thoughe b o t s i 't of." 104 PROCEEDING E SOCIETYTH F O S , DECEMBE , 192810 R . centerin Tarlann go Migvied dan t alsi : o extended acros e Morvensth - Culblean ridge as far as Glengairn.1 Its capital messuage was Migvie Castle Lordshie Th . f Midmapo rathes wa r r more vaguely definedt bu , included the district between the Don and the Dee in their middle courses, around Sken Echd behind ean an te Hil f Fareth do l , wits hit capital messuage at Midmar Castle. In the Lordship of Strathdon was included upper Donside west of the Den of Kildrummy; its capital messuage was the Doune of Invernochty. The Lordship of Strathdee, base Aboynn do e Castle s formee uppeth wa , y rb d middle reache oth f Dee, east of Braemar and south of Cromar. All these five pivotal castles, together wit e maith h n e Earldocastlth f eo t mKildrummya , are known to have been in existence in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. In early Celtic times Mar formed one of the Seven Provinces of Alba;2 and its Mormaeors are on record from 1014, in which year Domnall, son of Emhin, son of Cainnech, Mormaeor of Mar, fell at the battle of Clontarf.3 In the twelfth and thirteenth centuries these Mormaeors appear to have cordially espoused the Normanising policy carrieChurcn i t Statd dou an h e with such prevision, vigour, tenacity, and fruitful success by the powerful and large-minded kings of the n judgeHous ca e procese th f ,w Canmore o e f s o a s r fa :o s and n i , convertin e anciength t Provinc intr ofeudaa Ma f eo l earldom, witl hal that this involved in local administrative and ecclesiastical readjust- ments s accomplishedwa , t altogetheno f i , r smoothly t withouye , y an t fierce or sustained resistance on the part of the Celtic inhabitants. The sole documentary hint of trouble which has reached us appears to be a note by Hector Boece to the effect that Gilbert de Sterling, Bishop of Aberdeen from 1228 to 1239, had to recover Birse and Clova from " wicked Highlanders"; and that a later bishop, Richard Poiton or de Pottocht (1256-70) similad ha , r trouble wit "e Highlanderhth f Clouetso h and Murthlac." guesy Herma se thae w speciae tth l caus f irritatioeo n lay in the statu4 s of the ancient Celtic monasteries of Mortlach and Clova, founded in the sixth century by St Moluag from Lismore. By e yeath r 115 monastere 0th f Mortlacyo beed hha n suppresseds it d an , e newlpropertth f yo establishee us y appliee f Aberdeen.o th e r dse dfo 5 Early in the next century the subordinate monastery of Clova also "Post Gardini amnis ostia tractus est Cromarr dictus"—Gordon, ut supra, p.
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