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Rothes (; (スコットランド・ゲール語:Ràthais)) is a town in Moray, Scotland, on the banks of the River Spey, 10 miles south of Elgin on the A941. The town has a population of 1,252 (2011). A settlement has been here since AD 600. File:Entering Rothes from the south, with the Castle in the background.jpg|Entering Rothes from the south, with the castle in the background File:Rothes Parish Kirk - geograph.org.uk - 1301453.jpg|Rothes Parish Kirk ==History and castle== At the south end of the village lie the remains of Rothes Castle built on a hill by Peter de Pollok about 1200 to command traffic up and down this stretch of the Spey Valley. The castle's remains consist of a fragment of the massive outer wall overlooking the High Street of Rothes town. The castle was four storeys high, with a portcullis guarding the entrance to the inner courtyard and a drawbridge that crossed the dry moat, which ran between the outer wall and the hill on which the castle stood. Sir Norman Leslie, the castle's owner, was host to King Edward I of England on 29 July 1296, during his triumphal march through Scotland following its conquest by him in 1296. On the visit, Sir Norman pledged his allegiance to the king. In the 1390s Rothes Castle and its lands were passed to the Leslie family, who would later become the Earls of Rothes.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url=http://maps.nls.uk/atlas/blaeu/page.cfm?id=967 )〕 Some of the earliest houses in Rothes were built from stones of the castle, which were taken by villagers to build dwellings after the castle was set alight and destroyed in 1662. The town can clearly be seen on maps even before this date.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url=http://maps.nls.uk/view/00000182 )〕 The villagers had burnt the castle to its current state, since it had become a refuge for tramps and thieves after being abandoned. Rothes's earls sold their Moray estates to the Seafield family around 1700, and by this time Rothes had grown past the immediate area of the now long-ruined castle, into a village aligned east-west along the line of the burn running into the Spey. After selling up, the earls of Rothes moved to Fife, buying land which, much later, would become the site of the new town of Glenrothes. File:Rothes Castle Wall - geograph.org.uk - 1134660.jpg|Remains of Rothes Castle File:Rothes Castle Remains.jpg|Rothes Castle from the East An official notice by James, Earl of Findlater, of intention to feu a town on the Mains of Rothes was placed on 12 December 1763 to the Elginshire Council, and in 1766 the Seafields laid out plans for a crofting township to align north-south along the valley. This forms the genesis of most of the road patterns in Rothes today. The planned town formed a cross to replicate the Saltire in honour of St. Andrew. It overlay its old unplanned predecessor, which can still be seen on the ground. A formal let of 23 tenements by the earl were placed on 1 March 1790.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url=http://libindx.moray.gov.uk/subjects/subject_place_report_view.asp?REF_ID=PN004136 )〕 Rothes was inhabited long before the castle was built; as far back as AD 600; missionaries had visited the area and built a chapel on Chapel Hill. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Rothes」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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