GLAMIS, village and parish, Forfarshire, Scotland, 54 m. W. by S. of Forfar by the L.M.S. railway. Pop. (1931) 985. The name is sometimes spelled Glammis and the i is mute : it is de rived from the Gaelic, glamhus, "a wide gap," "a vale." In the village is a sculptured stone, supposed to be a memorial of Mal colm II., although Fordun's statement that the king was slain in the castle is now rejected. About a mile from the station stands Glamis castle, the seat of the earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, a fine example of the Scottish Baronial style, enriched with certain features of the French château. In its present form it dates mostly from the 17th century, but the original structure was as old as the I ith century, for Macbeth was thane of Glamis. Robert II. bestowed the thanedom on John Lyon, who had married the king's second daughter by Elizabeth Mure and was thus the founder of the existing family. Patrick Lyon became hostage to England for James I. in 1424. When, in 1537, Janet Douglas, widow of the 6th Lord Glamis, was burned at Edinburgh as a witch, for conspiring to procure James V.'s death, Glamis was forfeited to the crown, but it was restored to her son six years later when her innocence had been established. The 3rd earl of Strathmore entertained the Old Chevalier in 1715 and fell on the battlefield at Sheriffmuir. Sir Walter Scott spent a night in the "hoary old pile" when he was about twenty years old, and gives a striking relation of his experiences in his Demonology and Witch craft. The hall has several historical portraits, including those of Claverhouse', Charles II. and James II. of England. At Cossans, in the parish of Glamis, there is a remarkable sculptured monolith, and other examples occur at the Hunters' hill and in the old kirkyard of Eassie.