Archive for February 22nd, 2010

Balmerino Abbey was a Cistercian foundation on the south shore of the Firth of Tay founded in 1227 by the second wife and widow of King William the Lion of Scotland, Queen Ermengarde.  It was badly damaged by the English in the ‘Rough Wooing’ of 1547, but only collapsed into ruin later during the Reformation. […]