 This range incorporated an earlier corner tower and the 14th-century chapel.King James IV visited Balgonie on 20 August 1496, and gave 18 shillings to the masons as a gift.In 1627 the castle was sold to the Boswells, who sold it on in 1635 to Sir Alexander Leslie, a Scottish soldier who had fought for the Swedish army during the Thirty Years' War (1618-1648), rising to the rank of Field Marshal, and who led the Covenanters during the Scottish Bishops Wars.