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  • čas přidán 8. 07. 2020
  • Dunnottar Castle has a rich history from early chronicles to William Wallace to the Jacobite Rebellions, and it also was the scene of the one of the most famous sieges in Scottish history. The Dunnottar Castle history is also very much entwined with the Keith Family of Scotland.
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Komentáře • 124

  • @RobinLynnGriffith
    @RobinLynnGriffith Před 3 lety +62

    When I was younger I used to dream about a place that I would sketch out on paper with pencil and it was Crags and flat cliffs along with a castle ruins. The first time I ever saw this place I fell out of my chair literally I cried for two days this is the place I've been drawing ever since I was a young girl. And I still don't know why. Thank you for sharing this.

    • @stevegriffiths5364
      @stevegriffiths5364 Před 3 lety +10

      Maybe in another life ? who knows

    • @KPrayfortheworld
      @KPrayfortheworld Před 3 lety +10

      Yes you definitely lived back then in another life. 🧖‍♂️. Awesome 👏🏼. It’s definitely possible I believe

    • @RhysapGrug
      @RhysapGrug Před 2 lety +5

      Lynn Griffith ' is a very Welsh name not Scottish.
      Wales has more castles per sqm than any other country in the world.

    • @johnossendorf9979
      @johnossendorf9979 Před 2 lety +2

      I'v been to Dunnottar Castles twice when visiting family in Aberdeenshier. It is a beautiful place to visit and even more so when the sun comes out !
      Ps. If you ever go, be prepared for a bit of a hike, a lot of steps and a chilly wind. Dunnottar is the only place I'v been in Scotland that made me wish I'd dressed a little warmer.

    • @gadsdenconsulting7126
      @gadsdenconsulting7126 Před rokem

      That's amazing!!

  • @touchnova
    @touchnova Před rokem +13

    Great video! As descendants of Clan Keith, two of my siblings and I just returned from taking our parents on a pilgrimage to Dunnottar from the States. This had been a lifelong dream of my father, who is 87. A magical time together in a magical place!

    • @maisonkeithking
      @maisonkeithking Před rokem +1

      I am also scotch descendants of clan Keith still with surname;)

  • @eternalsunshineofthespotlessme

    My friend and I visited Dunnottar during our trip to Scotland recently and it was so worth it! It was beautiful seeing the landscape around the castle and learning about the history. Highly recommend!

  • @DelindaHenderson
    @DelindaHenderson Před 3 lety +6

    I have a painting of this castle in one of my bedrooms and a picture of my Scottish husband at the same castle when he still lived in Scotland as a young man. I hope we can go there soon!

  • @Howie_mcduffy
    @Howie_mcduffy Před 6 hodinami

    Grew up in Stonehaven and went to Dunnottar Primary School. Been to the castle many times, incredible place. Live in Canada on Vancouver Island now.

  • @Field_Agent_Quinn
    @Field_Agent_Quinn Před 2 lety +14

    I am a decendant of Clan Keith. I hope to one day visit my family’s ancient home

    • @earlkeith4135
      @earlkeith4135 Před 9 měsíci +1

      Clan Keith USA! 🇺🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
      I am also Descendent of Dunnottar and Reverend James Keith

    • @Bleep-km9ju
      @Bleep-km9ju Před 25 dny +1

      My grandma is too!

  • @mistermisanthrope4106
    @mistermisanthrope4106 Před 2 lety +8

    The home of my Keith ancestors, I'd love to visit someday.

  • @maryvallettakeith6146
    @maryvallettakeith6146 Před 3 lety +12

    My husband is Scottish and his name is Matthew William Keith. He is related to William Keith. My grandmother's name is McBride and I am related to Robert the Bruce. We're devising ways to reclaim this castle, haha. Wish us luck.

    • @theriskid
      @theriskid Před 2 lety +4

      I'm a Keith, too, and have been plotting that for years. This summer, my wife and two sons will be traveling across the pond to the Scottish Highlands. On the itinerary is taking back the Donnottar Castle. With a rush and push, that land will be ours! ...for as long as we stand on it, at least. ;)

    • @marciaspiegel5280
      @marciaspiegel5280 Před 10 měsíci +3

      I wish you much luck if you do reclaim it. This is very past a fixer upper. Even now it's very pretty.

  • @jamesshoemaker684
    @jamesshoemaker684 Před 3 lety +6

    computer animation of what the castle look like in its prime, would really add to this video. Good video👍

  • @-LoriAnn
    @-LoriAnn Před 2 lety +2

    My family and I visited this amazing place eight years ago. Thank you for this documentary!

  • @shellabella7264
    @shellabella7264 Před rokem +4

    william is my 23 rd grandfather. thank you for this episode

  • @mirrorbroken4524
    @mirrorbroken4524 Před 2 lety +1

    I really appreciate the effort put into this video. Thank you.

  • @anthonybaptistejr3205
    @anthonybaptistejr3205 Před 3 lety +11

    I enjoy learning about this because my mother and her family are Keith's, bearing the title through the male lines from their late great grandfather; Sir William Keith

  • @KentaroWada
    @KentaroWada Před 3 lety +2

    Really enjoyed the video which also helps me understand the history of Dunnotar Castle before I actually visited the place.
    THANK YOU "History Victorum"!!!

  • @WENCHY101
    @WENCHY101 Před rokem

    Lord William Keith 1585-1635 was my 12th great grandfather. I’ve spent so much time tracing my family roots, it’s so much fun!

    • @erikdegby4652
      @erikdegby4652 Před rokem

      Check out the Portraits Of King Malcolm, Kenneth The Niger and his Ancestor. King Cinaed Mac Dub czcams.com/video/y65CPV1MMz4/video.html

  • @Goyave_mangue
    @Goyave_mangue Před 3 lety +1

    Great video ! a pleasure to watch.

  • @gra-emed3617
    @gra-emed3617 Před měsícem

    Really interesting video. Thanks for sharing :)

  • @christiandavis2916
    @christiandavis2916 Před 3 lety

    Excellent journey, thank you.

  • @katewestcottvt
    @katewestcottvt Před 3 lety +7

    I am a Keith, learning about family history and ancestry. Thanks for your info ( :

  • @Thomasservo
    @Thomasservo Před 4 měsíci

    I’m a proud Kieth descendant and would love to visit this place.

  • @jennerkeith1175
    @jennerkeith1175 Před rokem

    Definitely need to visit !!

  • @idatipping2428
    @idatipping2428 Před 2 lety

    Very interesting, thank you,

  • @jacobqueen4411
    @jacobqueen4411 Před 6 měsíci

    Wonderful video! My paternal 9th great grandfather John McQueen was one of the 122 men imprisoned there in 1685! I read somewhere that he carved his name on the wall somewhere I dream of visiting one day to find out! Keep up the good content!

  • @Ronniedean
    @Ronniedean Před 3 lety +1

    Love the history...

    • @WhisperWishh
      @WhisperWishh Před 2 lety +1

      we have the same last name my friend

  • @dogothescout4875
    @dogothescout4875 Před 2 lety +1

    Marshall here💁🏼‍♀️

  • @timothykeith3276
    @timothykeith3276 Před 3 lety +4

    I am a proud keith, recently found out that i am directly descended from william keith 6th earl marischal and his third son robert🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

  • @stevenmillano1880
    @stevenmillano1880 Před měsícem

    Im here because of reels in IG hehehe ❤

  • @leonlawson2196
    @leonlawson2196 Před 3 lety

    Great video! I am from Stonehaven so thought I knew all there is to know about the Castle but I learned some new things here!

  • @sarungbandel
    @sarungbandel Před 2 lety

    Beautiful building😙

  • @gerhard6105
    @gerhard6105 Před 8 měsíci

    Very interesting. Some buildings need a roof. When you look at the Ruïne van Brederode in Santpoort, the Netherlands, you see what i mean.

  • @zachary1477
    @zachary1477 Před 3 lety +4

    Keith clan as well! Greetings from America

    • @marjoriegallece8914
      @marjoriegallece8914 Před 2 lety +1

      Hi Zach! My sister married into the Dixon family and my nephew was named Keith after the family ancestors (the Keiths who were the Earl Marischals).

    • @zachary1477
      @zachary1477 Před 2 lety

      @@marjoriegallece8914 wow that’s very awesome!! So cool to hear that!

  • @Angie-fe8yd
    @Angie-fe8yd Před 2 lety +4

    I saw a picture of Dunnotar castle in July 2020 just scrolling through stuff on the web and got a weird feeling in my belly when I saw it..like butterflies n something else 🤔can't explain it.I didn't know where it was.Showed the picture to my youngest daughter and asked if it was like something from Game of thrones(she was a big fan)...she said yes..(I've never seen the programme) I said wouldn't it be amazing to live near that castle? I would love to live near it....
    Long story short...after having to leave the Isle of Lewis at the end of the first lockdown because of relationship break up I still wanted to live by the sea and preferably in the West of Scotland but couldn't find a place to rent.So I randomly typed in... "Places to rent in Scotland" and found a leasing agents that were advertising a place.When researching the area where the flat was I found out "THE CASTLE" was there😂😃🤪... where I'd randomly found a flat😲🙌😁💝!!! I had never been there or heard of it. I've travelled through and stayed in quite a few places in Scotland Dundee,Pitlochry,Perth,Crieff,St Andrews,Broughty Ferry, Low lands Highlands Etc,etc travelled to Skye,Oban,Arran,Outer Hebrides, Lewis,Harris n other Isles twice a year every year for 10 years! Never to Stonehaven...Dunnotar Castle!
    I've been living here 7 months now and Dunnotar Castle is literally over the hill from my place down by the 🌊beach🌊!! 😍😁💝 Sometimes strange🤪🤔 and magical🌠 🌌things happen in life 😁🙌🌊 🌅😍🌊🏰🌊💝🐬🌊🙂🌊

  • @jeanstratton964
    @jeanstratton964 Před 6 měsíci

    Thank you so much to learn so much of my great grandfathers family was totally AWESOME! FAMILY IS EVERTHING! Love you all!

  • @mattfish6170
    @mattfish6170 Před 3 lety +2

    I come from the Keith's also!

  • @Ronniedean
    @Ronniedean Před 3 lety +2

    The Crown the Sword and the Secpter...

  • @dmbalsam
    @dmbalsam Před 8 měsíci

    Visited this a couple of weeks ago. It seems smaller today.

  • @aldenhislop4960
    @aldenhislop4960 Před 2 lety

    Real good

  • @lionelwaeckel3589
    @lionelwaeckel3589 Před 2 lety +2

    There was a branch of the Clan Keith in Calais where a knight of this family settled in the XIV th c. A descendant of this knight married the daughter of a rich Alsacian 'Herrebüre'( a lord-peasant, un paysant-seigneur) provost in the Kochersberg county belonging to the Holy Empire prince-bishop of Strasburg in the first half of the XVII th. C., during the Thirty Years War. The irony of history is that the origin of the Clan Keith (different selliers,Keith/e, Käth/e, Kieth)would take place in Worms , Germany, not so far from Strasburg . A branch of the Stirling (Stirling, Sterling, Stärling)family settled in Colmar, Alsace in the second half of the XVII th.c. maybe jacobites.

    • @WhisperWishh
      @WhisperWishh Před 2 lety +1

      hello I am one of this is descending, thank you very much I live in Alsace and I did not know the origin of my family keith because my grandfather was abandoned baby, I am happy to see that it does not come out of nowhere share thank you very much

    • @jeanluckeith826
      @jeanluckeith826 Před 2 lety

      I come from Strasbourg, my name is Keith I confirm that it is exactly the same story that my family tells me and often heard pronouncing the name "sterling"

  • @sunny99179
    @sunny99179 Před 5 měsíci

    Hello, i want to know if there is any register about this "island" being surrounder by houses near the castle area ? Thank you so much

  • @amandaflowers2620
    @amandaflowers2620 Před 3 lety +2

    I come from the Keith clan also! My fathers side. They immigrated to the Us and the majority of my branch still live in Virginia, we are in Missouri.

    • @Aaakeith
      @Aaakeith Před 3 lety

      Mine as well! Immigrated to Canada, then to Michigan. Most of us still live here.

    • @juzagirlntheroom2692
      @juzagirlntheroom2692 Před 2 lety

      I'm a Keith. My people went to Missouri too. What town are your people in?

    • @WhisperWishh
      @WhisperWishh Před 2 lety

      @@juzagirlntheroom2692
      in france there aren't many keiths so I looked for the origin and I'm happy to be not the only one to have this name however I don't know if I'm part of the Keith clan

    • @joshuakeith8710
      @joshuakeith8710 Před rokem

      Same is their anyway to find immigrant records from
      Scotland? I can trace Nichdodemus keith to Virginia but then the trail stops

  • @katrinamoore3520
    @katrinamoore3520 Před 3 lety +2

    When lockdown is over, I’m going to visit. Location is fantastic.

  • @user-lx6rk8sh9d
    @user-lx6rk8sh9d Před rokem

    Hundreds of years later still live by the tides and surrounded by clam flats.

  • @jeremikorybutwisniowiecki8333

    Highlands castels looks amazing

  • @asignmaker
    @asignmaker Před 3 lety

    Interesting stuff on the great www about the Keith. Thanks

  • @tmkrueger
    @tmkrueger Před 2 lety

    After doing a lot of research since my 6th great grandfather Andrew Patterson was imprisoned there I can tell you they were sent to America's and landed in Perth Amboy, NJ 18Dec1685.

  • @Lulu-qi1um
    @Lulu-qi1um Před 3 lety

    Also a Keith from Sir William!

  • @skillian3826
    @skillian3826 Před 2 lety

    The Keith Family are my Ancestors

  • @deniserussell7498
    @deniserussell7498 Před měsícem

    I am of clan Keith hope to visit one day

  • @user-lx6rk8sh9d
    @user-lx6rk8sh9d Před rokem

    How's the clam digging there? Also am I entitled to a mooring?

  • @wictoriaojheden
    @wictoriaojheden Před 3 lety +1

    Reminds me so much of Dunluce Castle in Northern Ireland, next to the sea and in ruins and just as important.

    • @barry5356
      @barry5356 Před 3 lety

      Exact Same Peoples

    • @duncancallum
      @duncancallum Před 9 měsíci

      @@barry5356 Stop dreaming the Picts lived there.

  • @azariahisrael5632
    @azariahisrael5632 Před 2 lety +1

    Thanks for video from a decendant of Baron Robert Keith born at that castle and who died at the Battle of Flodden Field 1513. I decend from 3 of his daughters: Lady Elizabeth Keith Gordon Countess of Huntly, Lady Janet Keith Lyon Countess of Glamis, Lady Agnes Keith Douglas Baroness of Douglas. All of the daughters were born in that castle.

    • @erikdegby4652
      @erikdegby4652 Před rokem

      Check out the Portraits Of King Malcolm, Kenneth The Niger and his Ancestor. King Cinaed Mac Dub czcams.com/video/y65CPV1MMz4/video.html

  • @thecommunistcat8516
    @thecommunistcat8516 Před rokem +1

    From Keith to Dix Surname
    Dix:son of Richard the Keith

  • @MrDoctorlove993
    @MrDoctorlove993 Před rokem

    I’m watching this because I just found out I’m a very recent blood descendant of the Keith family.

  • @golgumbazguide...4113
    @golgumbazguide...4113 Před 2 lety

    Welcome to Golgumbaz 2021

  • @devinkeith4538
    @devinkeith4538 Před 3 lety +1

    What up cuz from WA USA

  • @guardian100
    @guardian100 Před 4 měsíci

    Cromwell just wanted to burn all the gold down and sell the Jewels for money., was a blessing we managed to escape with them.

  • @LadyAssassin13706
    @LadyAssassin13706 Před 3 lety

    Do you know of the Scottish castle that was burned down by the laird over the grief of his baby son's accidental death?

  • @jitaamesuluma9730
    @jitaamesuluma9730 Před 3 lety

    this is my clan , my great grandmother was a Harvey

    • @jitaamesuluma9730
      @jitaamesuluma9730 Před 3 lety +2

      oh wow , you just explained HOW i am descended from Robert the Bruce , i feel like crying now , i feel so emotional , my dna said it was fact but i was adopted so i knew nothing , i found my family but they did not know anyway , they told me my great grandmother was Carrie Harvey but prity much that was all they said , i think they knew because my grandmother took real china on picnics who does that ?

  • @anneligillisson5621
    @anneligillisson5621 Před 2 lety

    James Jacob Keith kom till Sverige så på min farfars sida vet jag långt tillbaka

  • @zachkeith8589
    @zachkeith8589 Před 3 měsíci

    that’s my family

  • @davidkeith423
    @davidkeith423 Před 2 lety +1

    Hi

  • @samfu-sunandmoonfamilyunited

    Hi James I am going to do a video on this place would you mind if I took a little of your video mirrored it in mine? 💚🌈🌈🌈💚💓🌻💝💝

  • @kathleenmckeithen118
    @kathleenmckeithen118 Před 2 lety

    Could the McKeithen family have come from or been part of the Clan Keith?

  • @mzbautorepair
    @mzbautorepair Před rokem

    Anyone through the bloodline of Cornelius Keith?

  • @mandesarprostudiotiewdohma9545

    Should renovate the castle

    • @-V-K-
      @-V-K- Před 28 dny

      They sort of renovated it when Mel Gibson filmed Hamlet there , & should have left it renovated I agree.

  • @WendyT17
    @WendyT17 Před 3 lety +1

    Why cant the goverment contact the ancesters of the old castles and see if they can fix the builings up and if the ancesters have not ever traveled invite them to the area of countryor city to see how their ancestors lived wendy

    • @KazM-Made
      @KazM-Made Před 3 lety +2

      Those sites not already in private hands are usually run by the National Trust as public holdings for tourism. The cost of fixing them up would bankrupt most families!! Totally unfeasible to do more than maintain them safely as reminders of a long lost age.

  • @carriekeith8482
    @carriekeith8482 Před 3 lety

    I am from keith clan

  • @cklg88
    @cklg88 Před 3 lety

    I have been all through this castle more like a fort from top to bottom. You can feel the presence of the suffering that went on within the dungeon. When I walked this fort there were no roads, no tourists, and no signs in the dead of winter with the North Sea haweling at your face. Look at all those tourists, I hope it has not been destroyed by humans.

    • @HistoryVictorum
      @HistoryVictorum  Před 3 lety

      I would love to see this in the middle of winter sometime. Sounds amazing. -James

    • @flamencoprof
      @flamencoprof Před 3 lety

      When I visited the area in 1996 my (ex) wife made me wait 10 or 15 minutes so she could get a photograph from the landward side with no tourists walking across that narrow connecting neck of land.

  • @dogbig02
    @dogbig02 Před 2 lety +1

    There is a lot of important information here; excellent, but slow down man, you're speaking so fast that your sentences run together. Slow it down; it's not a race to get through to the end.

  • @lndscpartist1487
    @lndscpartist1487 Před 3 lety +2

    Talked way too fast. !!!!

  • @tatisiskin8225
    @tatisiskin8225 Před rokem

    Sorry you speak to fast:((

  • @brucejohnson0
    @brucejohnson0 Před 3 měsíci

    hey buddy
    your slurring your words. line you've been drinking.
    so..... you need to re-record this. as you do it the whole way through..... and you don't have many views..
    so.......
    did you ever ask yourself why?
    if you ever do, your slurred speech the entire way through...... start to finish..... i'd

  • @neanderthaloutdoors9202

    Your pronunciation of Dunnottar is hideous, when you are commenting on our history you could at least pronounce our language correctly.

  • @joshuasjericho3915
    @joshuasjericho3915 Před 2 měsíci

    Cool 😎

  • @AdrianMartinez-wh4bp
    @AdrianMartinez-wh4bp Před rokem

    fantastic? lmao u mean fantasized?