Castle Leod (5)
So as I said before, the castle was built about 1600 by 'The Tutor of Kintail' Sir Roderick Mackenzie of Tarbat &amp; Coigeach (the latter estate he obtained by marriage to its Macleod heiress), and then modified by him in 1616, before his death in 1628.  Thirteen generations later, his direct line of descendants still live in the castle, although having passed through the female line three times, it has required some 'creative accounting' for the family to still call themselves Mackenzie, but they do and what's more, they are the chiefs of the clan!

The Tutor's son John, was created Baronet of Tarbat and his son Sir George, who was a Lord of Session; Privy Councilor; Chief Minister for the King in Scotland and Lord Justice General - was created 1st Earl of Cromarty, which together with the Earldom of Seaforth, gave the Mackenzies two earldoms and huge influence across a swathe of Scotland from the Black Isle to the Isle of Lewis.
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