He Starved His Best Friend in a Pit. It's Not Even the Castle's Darkest Story.

No castle in Britain has a darker reputation than Hermitage. A knight starved to death in its pit by his own friend. A lord so hated that legend says he was boiled alive. And the family who held it last — the Hepburns — produced the man who destroyed Mary Queen of Scots and himself in eighteen catastrophic months. This is the story of the guardhouse of the bloodiest valley in Britain. ⏱️ CHAPTERS 00:00 The Pit 01:00 The Emptiest Valley in Britain 02:00 A Sorcerer, a Friend, a Starving 03:20 The Hepburns Take the Border 04:20 The Queen's Ride 06:40 The Fall of Bothwell 08:30 Visiting Hermitage Today 🏰 Heirs & Ruins explores castles and the noble families who rose, ruled, and fell within their walls. New episodes weekly. ▶️ Episode 1 — Dunnottar & the hidden Crown Jewels:    • The Castle That Hid Scotland's Crown Jewel...   ▶️ Episode 2 — Glamis & the Bowes-Lyons:    • The King Burned Her Alive. Her Family Ende...   Credits: Scotfocus, via Wikimedia Commons / geograph.org.uk Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...) Mainlymazza, via Wikimedia Commons / geograph.org.uk Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...) "Hermitage Castle" by Jennifer Petrie, via Wikimedia Commons / geograph.org.uk Licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...) Taras Young, CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/..., via Wikimedia Commons author of source image, plus my modifications (myself), CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/..., via Wikimedia Commons Mainlymazza, CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/..., via Wikimedia Commons Sodacan, CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/..., via Wikimedia Commons Walter Baxter / Mary Queen of Scots' House, Jedburgh Appie Verschoor, CC BY 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/..., via Wikimedia Commons Livinus de Vogelaare, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons Niels Elgaard Larsen, CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/..., via Wikimedia Commons Neil Turnbull / Hermitage Water and Castle Hermitage Castle Gate by Jennifer Petrie, CC BY-SA 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/..., via Wikimedia Commons Hermitage Castle by Billy McCrorie, CC BY-SA 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/..., via Wikimedia Commons #ScottishHistory #Castles #MaryQueenOfScots #HermitageCastle #History