vallikraaviga. Ehitatud Stewart pere poolt, elas loss üle viikingite rünnakud, et saada kuninglikuks residentsiks. Kuigi loss langes varemetesse pärast 17. sajandit, remontis markii Bute selle põhjalikult enne valitsuse hoole alla sattumist 20. sajandil. Rothesay loss on ehitatud kas Alan Stewarti või tema poja Walter Stewarti poolt. Alanile anti see maa kuningas William I poolt aastal 1200. Kõigepealt ehitati puidust loss, kuid ta sai kivist katte aastal 1230. Loss alistati viiking Gillespec MacDougalli poolt. Viikingid võitlesid kolm päeva, lõhkudes kirvestega idamüüri . Aastal 1263, alistati Rothesay uuesti, seekord viiking Haakon IV poolt enne Largsi lahingut. Kuigi Largsi lahing oli ebakindel, kaotasid viikingid oma mõju lääne Sotimaal. Varasemalt koosnes loss ainult 3meetri paksuse ja umbes 43meetri pikkuse seinaga, mis ehitati väiksele künkale ning mille ümber kaevati kraav lossi kaitseks ning mis oli ka ühendatud merega. Peavärav oli lihtne puidust uks ning mis
after the 17th century, the castle was repaired by the Marquess of Bute before passing into state care last century.The castle was built either by Alan, High Steward of Scotland (d.1204), or by his son Walter Stewart (d.1246), ancestor of the House of Stuart or Stewart. Alan was granted the lands of the Isle of Bute by William I in 1200. A wooden castle was constructed first, but the stone circular curtain wall was in place by the 1230s, when the castle was attacked and taken by Norsemen under Gillespec MacDougall (known as Uspak in Norse), grandson of Somerled. According to The Saga of Haakon Haakonsson, the Norsemen fought for three days to take the castle, breaking down part of the eastern wall by hewing the stone with their axes, and certainly the eastern wall shows signs of damage. This saga is the earliest recorded account of an assault on a Scottish castle. In 1263, Rothesay was taken again by the Norse under Haakon IV before the Battle of Largs. Although the
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