Why this matters
Elgin Castle was built by the bishops of Moray in the 12th century and later held by the earls of Moray. It is important as a key historical and strategic site in northern Scotland, associated with significant medieval events, including the imprisonment of King William the Lion.
Overview
Elgin Castle is recorded as Castle in Scotland Moray. The saved record does not give a safe building date. The saved evidence fixes the place and classification, while builders, attacks and later use remain open unless a named source establishes them.
Who built and held it
The saved record identifies Elgin Castle as Castle. It does not safely name a builder, owner or garrison, so no famous namesake has been borrowed.
Attack, change and use
No particular siege, capture, rebuilding or later use is established by the saved public wording. Those events remain unknown unless the linked record or later evidence identifies them.
What survives
The place is saved as OpenStreetMap point or centre of the mapped shape. Its classification is Castle; this first account does not claim that a complete building survives where the record may represent ruins, earthworks or a broad mapped area.
Why it mattered
The record preserves Elgin Castle as a local defensive or high-status place and gives readers an exact starting point for its history. Its wider importance and local stories are not invented where the present evidence is silent.
History checked 15 August 2026 against the named sources below.
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