Bute with its Rothesay Castle was an important Norwegian-held position in the Firth of Clyde that Scottish forces recovered in 1264 as part of the consolidation following Largs. The recovery of Bute and Rothesay Castle by Scotland was symbolically important as Rothesay had been associated with the Scottish crown since the twelfth century. The recapture prefigured the formal cession in the Treaty of Perth.
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