Explore the historic highlights of Raasepori
Raasepori, Finland
1649-1900
Raasepori, Finland
1360-1378
Raasepori, Finland
1651-1679
Raasepori, Finland
18th-19th centuries
Raasepori, Finland
1465-1470
Raasepori, Finland
1475-1480
Raasepori, Finland
1641
Raasepori, Finland
1688-1699
Raasepori, Finland
1460-1480
Raasepori, Finland
ca. 1320
Raasepori, Finland
1640-1900
Raasepori, Finland
ca. 1500
Raasepori, Finland
1803-1806
Doune Castle was originally built in the thirteenth century, then probably damaged in the Scottish Wars of Independence, before being rebuilt in its present form in the late 14th century by Robert Stewart, Duke of Albany (c. 1340–1420), the son of King Robert II of Scots, and Regent of Scotland from 1388 until his death. Duke Robert"s stronghold has survived relatively unchanged and complete, and the whole castle was traditionally thought of as the result of a single period of construction at this time. The castle passed to the crown in 1425, when Albany"s son was executed, and was used as a royal hunting lodge and dower house.
In the later 16th century, Doune became the property of the Earls of Moray. The castle saw military action during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms and Glencairn"s rising in the mid-17th century, and during the Jacobite risings of the late 17th century and 18th century.