Tantallon Castle Bass Rock Stock Photo

Tantallon castle, built around AD1350, lived in by the Red Douglases, in North Berwick Scotland. overlooking Bass Rock Tantallons origins date back to the ennoblement of William, the First Earl of Douglas in 1358. A later split within the family of the Douglas Earls of Angus left Tantallon under the control of the Red Douglases, sporadically in conflict with the Black Douglas side of the family. And when their ambition grew too rampant or their relations with England too close, they also found themselves repeatedly in conflict with the Scottish Crown.