57°41′14″N 3°26′47″W / 57.6872°N 3.4463°W Roseisle, formerly known as the College of Roseisle after a monks' college, is a village in the parish of Duffus, near Elgin, Moray, in the west of the Laich of Moray. Half a mile to the north are the former farms of Old Town.
A charter was given to William, son of Freskin from King William I of Scotland, of the lands of Roseisle between 1165 and 1171.[1] Roseisle was sold by Alexander Stuart, 5th Earl of Moray to Alexander Sutherland, 1st Lord Duffus in 1653. The estate was purchased by Archibald Dunbar of Northfield, who then sold it to John Gordon, 16th Earl of Sutherland in 1729.[2]