Castle Rock & Medieval Burgh · event 4 of 8

c. 1130

A royal burgh. David I grants Edinburgh burgh status and founds Holyrood Abbey two years earlier, after — the story goes — a stag with a cross between its antlers.

The Castle Rock & Medieval Burgh era

  1. c. 900 BC
  2. c. 600 AD
  3. 638
  4. c. 1130
  5. c. 1130
  6. 1314
  7. 1437
  8. 1513

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