Panmure Castle was a castle that was located to the north-west of Muirdrum,

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, Scotland. The castle was owned by the

de Valognes de Valognes (Valoignes, Valoines, Valoins, Valons, Valeynes, Valeignes, Valens, Valence, Valance, Valang, Valoniis) is a family name of two distinct powerful families with notable descendants in the centuries immediately following the Norman Con ...

family, until the castle passed by marriage of

Christina de Valognes Christina de Valognes (died 1256), was a Scottish noble. She was the daughter and heiress of William de Valognes, Baron of Panmure and Benvie, and High Chamberlain of Scotland. She married Sir Peter Maule of Fowlis around 1224, uniting the two ...

to Peter Maule of Fowlis. The stone castle is thought to have been built by Peter Maule around 1224 and was destroyed by Andrew Murray of Avoch and Petty during the

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in 1336. The castle was the ancestral home of the Maule family of Panmure from the 13th century to the 17th century, when it was replaced by Panmure House in the 17th century. In 1485 Alexander Garden killed John Jamesone by throwing a stone at him from the castle, and he was forgiven by

James IV James IV (17 March 1473 – 9 September 1513) was King of Scotland from 11 June 1488 until his death at the Battle of Flodden in 1513. He inherited the throne at the age of fifteen on the death of his father, James III, at the Battle of Sauch ...

for this crime in December 1507.''Register of the Privy Seal'', vol. 1 (Edinburgh, 1908), p. 230 no. 1581. The ruins of the castle and moat has been designated as a

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