This Castle Beheaded Its Own Owner Twice

Above the town of Dollar sits a castle that was murdered over, burned twice, and hosted a queen, a reformer, and a king's own coronation, all under the ownership of a family who couldn't stop naming their heirs the same thing. In this video, you'll hear the real history behind Castle Campbell, formerly Castle Gloom, from the wedding-day assassination that started it all, through a kidnapping plot against Mary, Queen of Scots, to two Earls beheaded by the same blade, twenty-four years apart, and a title that wasn't legally earned until fifty-six years after the man who built it was already dead. If you enjoyed this one, let me know in the comments. Real portraits, engravings, and photographs used throughout this video, credited below: "Castle Campbell" — lithograph by James Duffield Harding after Thomas Creswick, 1847-1850, British Museum. Public domain. "Castle Campbell, 2003" by Elisa.rolle, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons. "Tower and courtyard of Castle Campbell, Dollar, Clackmannan" by Anthony O'Neil, licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. "Dunstaffnage Castle - and the beach" by nairnbairn, licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. "Dunstaffnage Castle" by sylvia duckworth, licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. "Duncan, Archibald, and Colin Campbell" from the Black Book of Taymouth, facing page 9, original c. 1598, lithographic reproduction by William Home Lizars, 1855. Public domain. "Castle Campbell" by Sarah Charlesworth, licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. "Portrait of Pope Paul II," unknown author, 1550, Pinacoteca Civica, Como. Public domain. "Ruins of Castle-Gloom" by Thomas Medland, 1802 (sketched on the spot by Alex Campbell), Yale Center for British Art. CC0. "The Battle of Flodden" from James Grant, 1873. Public domain. "Statue of John Knox on the tower of the Knox Institute in Haddington" by James Denham, licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Portrait of Mary, Queen of Scots, 17th century, unidentified painter, Blairs Museum. Public domain. "Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley; Mary, Queen of Scots" after Reginold Elstrack, 1565. Public domain. "Castle Campbell" by Chris Wimbush, licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. "Portrait of King Charles I" by Daniel Mytens, 1628. Public domain. "The Marquess of Argyll" by David Scougall, c. 1661. Public domain. "King Charles II" by John Michael Wright or studio, between 1660 and 1665, National Portrait Gallery. Public domain. "Castle Campbell" by William Starkey, licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. "Arrest of Argyll, AD 1661" by Walter Paget, c. 1909. Public domain. "The Maiden, National Museum of Scotland" by Kim Traynor, 2011, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons. "Gevangenneming van Archibald Campbell, negende graaf van Argyll" by Pieter Pickaert, published by Adriaen Schoonebeek, 1689, Rijksmuseum. Public domain. "Portrait of Archibald Campbell, 9th Earl of Argyll" by Kim Traynor, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons. "Archibald Campbell, 9th Earl of Argyll 'at home'" by Basher Eyre, licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. "Stirling Tolbooth, 18th century" by user:kilnburn, via Wikimedia Commons. "Castle Campbell, Dollar, Scotland" — Detroit Photographic Company photochrom print, c. 1890-1900. Public domain. "Castle Campbell - vaulted ceiling with grotesques" by Tom Parnell, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. "Castle Campbell" by Sarah McGuire, licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. "Castle Campbell" by Ian Taylor, licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.