Red Castle, Angus

The earliest structure on the site was built for King William the Lion in the late twelfth century to repel Viking invasions to Lunan Bay.

After Lady Beaton threw him out, Gray (with his brother Andrew of Dunninald and John Ogilvy of Kynnody) laid siege to the castle for two years, ultimately burning the inhabitants out.

James VI ordered John Erskine of Dun and his son Robert to bring siege engines and eject Gray, with the help of the townspeople of Dundee.

On 28 February, a royal messenger was sent from Stirling Castle to make a proclamation at the mercat crosses of Dundee, Forfar, Montrose, and Arbroath ordering:all our sovereign lord's lieges between sixty and sixteen years [old] to pass forward in warlike manner to the relief of the siege of the "hous of the Reidcastell", and to charge James Gray and John Ogilvie of Kynnody to leave the siege of the said house under the pain of treason.

Red Castle stands on high ground overlooking Lunan Bay, on the North Sea coast.