Airlie Castle (4)
Airlie is and has been throughout recorded history at least, a property of the Ogilvy family.  While their castle is about to celebrate its 600th birthday, the Ogilvies themselves have been around here much longer than that.  They are said to descend from a younger son of Gille Brigte (Gilbride), Earl of Angus, who died c.1189.  Gilbert, the younger son of Earl Gilchrist, was father of Alexander de Ogiluill - a barony in the parish of Glamis from which their name derives.  This senior line of the house obtained the barony of Auchterhouse by marriage in the 14th century.

The Durward (Royal Doorward) family are one of those families that were for a time very prominent in Scottish history, and then disappeared without trace.  In the case of the Durwards, their disappearance was precipitated by their support for the losing side during the Wars of Independence.  In the early 15th century, Sir Walter Ogilvy, 2nd son of Sir Walter of Ogilvy of Auchterhouse, married the Durward heiress of Lintrathen, by which he came by Airlie.
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