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Blackadder House was an estate and stately house near the village of Allanton, in Berwickshire, Scotland. It was built on the site of the earlier Blackadder Castle. The house was vandalised by troops
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Blackadder North Lodge, undergoing restoration in 2007
Main Street and Post Office at Allanton
Farm cottages, Blackadder Mount
In July 1482, an English army invaded Scotland during the Anglo-Scottish Wars. The town of Berwick-upon-Tweed and its castle were captured and the English army briefly occupied Edinburgh. These events
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…constant Borders feuds, and extended their lands by grants from James II bestowed as a reward for repelling English raids, with great ferocity. During an invasion of Scotland in 1482, the Duke of Gloucester, later Richard III of England, came to Blackadder Castle, and his ally Alexander Stewart, Duke of Albany, ordered the "great…
Edward IV and the Duke of Albany made a deal to invade Scotland at Fotheringhay Castle
Richard, Duke of Gloucester marched on Edinburgh but was unable to put Albany on the throne
The Trinity Altarpiece shows from right, Margaret of Denmark facing James III with their son James, Duke of Rothesay, Royal Collection / National Gallery of Scotland
Edward Hall and John Lesley wrote that Albany mustered the Scottish army at Cranshaws Castle in the Lammermuir Hills to save Berwick Castle from his former allies