Baron of Luss Sir John Colquhoun 
Baron of Luss Sir John was born about 1398 in Luss, Loch Lomond, Dumbartonshire, Scotland.1 Baron of Luss Sir John's father was Malcolm Colquhoun. His paternal grandparents were Sir John Colquhoun and Jean Erskine. He had a sister named Maria. He was the younger of the two children. He died on May 1st, 1478 in Dumbarton Castle, Dumbartonshire, Scotland.1 General Notes
Sir John Colquhoun of Luss; granted 1457 a charter incorporating his lands into the territorial Barony of Luss, another of Forestry of Rossdhu and Glenmuckerne 1458 and one of Kilmardinny 1465; Sheriff of Dumbarton, Comptroller of Royal Household1464-66, Keeper of Dumbarton Castle 1477; envoy 1474 to negotiate a marriage between the Scottish heir apparent and Cecilia , daughter of Edward IV. [Burke's Peerage]
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Sir John Colquhoun was one of the most distinguished men of his age in Scotland, and highly esteemed by King James III, from whom he got a charter in 1457 of the lands of Luss, Colquhoun ,and Garscube, in Dumbartonshire, and of the lands of Glyn and Sauchie, in Stirlingshire, in corporating the whole into a freebarony, to be called the Barony of Luss; and in the following year he obtained from the king a charter erecting into a free forest the lands of Rossdhu and Glenmachome. From 1465 to 1469 he held the high office of comptroller of the Exchequer, and was subsequently appointed sheriff principle of Dumbartonshire. In 1645 he got a grant of the lands of Kilmardinny, and in 1473 and in 1474, of Roseneath, Strone, &c. In 1474 he was appointed lord high chamberlain of Scotland, and immediately thereafterwas nominated one of the ambassadors extraordinary to the Courtof England, to negotiate a marriage between the Prince Royal of Scotland and the Princess Cicily, daughter of King Edward IV. By a roya l charter dated 17th September 1477, he was constituted governor of the castle of Dumbarton for life. He was killed by a cannon-ball at the seige of Dumbarton Castle, probably in 1478. By his wife, daughter of Thomas, Lord Boyd, he had two sons and one daughter. His second son , Robert, was bred to the church, and was first rector of Argyle from 1473 to 1499. The daughter, Margaret, married Sir William Murray, seventh baron of Tullibardine (ancestor of the Dukes of Athole), and bore to him seventeen sons.
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- b.~ 1353 in Luss, Dunbartonshire, Scotland d.24 Sep 1439 in murdered
- b.~ 1371 in Luss, Loch Lomond, Dumbartonshire, Scotland
- b.~ 1310 in Erskine, Renfrewshire, Scotland d.1385 in Erskine, Renfrewshire, Scotland
- b.~ 1350 in Erskine, Renfrewshire, Scotland
- b.~ 1289 in Castle Crawford, Lanarkshire, Scotland d.1357 in Castle Crawford, Lanarkshire, Scotland
- b.~ 1312 in Castle Crawford, Lanarkshire, Scotland d.1378 in Erskine, Renfrewshire, Scotland
- b.~ 1270 in Abernethy, Perthshire, Scotland
- b.~ 1294 in Abernethy, Perthshire, Scotland d.1355 in Castle Crawford, Lanarkshire, Scotland
- b.~ 1398 in Luss, Loch Lomond, Dumbartonshire, Scotland d.01 May 1478 in Dumbarton Castle, Dumbartonshire, Scotland
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