Arboga, Sweden
12th century
Arboga, Sweden
13th century
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15th century
Österbybruk, Sweden
15th century
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1150
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13th century
Grillby, Sweden
ca. 1227-1280
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12th century
Vetlanda, Sweden
12th century
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14th century
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13-14th century
Borgholm, Sweden
ca. 1150
Falköping, Sweden
12th century
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12th century
Kvicksund, Sweden
12th century
Grillby, Sweden
12th century
Svärdsjö, Sweden
14th century
Vadstena, Sweden
ca. 1112
Ystad, Sweden
ca. 1200
Ystad, Sweden
12th century
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.