Colin Campbell 
Colin was born about 1440 in Argylshire, Scotland. Colin's father was Archibald Campbell and his mother is Elizabeth Somerville. His paternal grandfather was Duncan Campbell and his paternal grandmother is Marjory Marcelline Stewart; his maternal grandfather was John Somerville and his maternal grandmother is Helen Hepburn. He had a sister named Elizabeth. He was the younger of the two children. He died on May 10th, 1493 in Scotland.General Notes
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COLIN, the grandson of Lord Campbell, was created EARL OF ARGYLL b y James
II., in 1457. By his marriage to the eldest of the three daughters an d
co-heiresses of John, Lord Lorne (all three married Campbells), the young
Earl put an end to the feuds which for upwards of two hundred and fifty
year s had raged between the families of Lochaw and Lorne, and obtained
the undisp uted chieftainship of the county of Argyll. He acquired, in
consequence of th is connection, the lordship and title of Lorne from
Walter Stewart, Lord Lorn e and Invermeath, heir male of that lordship, in
exchange for the estates of Kildoning, Baldoning, and other lands in the
shires of Perth, Fife, Kinross, and Aberdeen. The galley—the ancient
badge of the family of Lorne— was, in co nsequence of this acquisition,
assumed into the Earl’s hereditary coat-of-arm s. ‘The acquisition of
Lorne,’ says Dr. Fraser, ‘was a favourable arrangement for the family of
Argyll, as it lay adjacent to their other lands, while the Lowland
possessions surrendered as an equivalent were scattered over various
counties and far distant from their more important territories.’ The Earl
acquired extensive estates besides in Perthshire and Fifeshire, and the
lords hip of Campbell, with its celebrated castle near Dollar, where John
Knox visi ted Archibald, fourth Earl of Argyll, and preached to him and
his relatives. It continued to be a frequent residence of the family
until 1644, when it was burned by the Macleans in the army of the Marquis
of Montrose. At a later pe riod he obtained a large share of the forfeited
possessions of the Lord of th e Isles. The most important offices at Court
and in the kingdom were conferre d upon him. He was frequently sent as
ambassador to the English Court, and al so to France. He was Master of the
Royal Household, Grand Justiciary of Scotl and, and eventually became Lord
High Chancellor—an office which he held for a long period. This dignity,
along with the lands of ‘Mekell and Lettel Pincar toun,’ in the barony of
Dunbar, was probably bestowed upon the Earl in 1483, as a reward for his
loyal adherence to James III. at the time of the conspira cy of Archibald
Bell-the-Cat and other nobles, which led to the murder of the royal
favourites at Lauder, in 1482. Argyll was in England at the time of th e
defeat and death of that unfortunate monarch at Sauchieburn, in 1488. On
his return to Scotland he was at once reappointed Chancellor by James
IV., wh o also conferred upon him the lands of Roseneath, Dumbartonshire
(January 9th , 1489) which are still in the possession of the family. The
mansion is one o f the principal seats of the Duke of Argyll. This
powerful and prosperous nob leman died in 1493. The Lords of the Isles,
the mightiest of all the ancient Highland chieftains, had long possessed
unquestioned supremacy in the HebriDe s and throughout the mountain
country of Argyll and Inverness-shire. But from this period their
power began to wane before the rising influence of th e Campbells. As late
as the fifteenth century these haughty and turbulent isl and chieftains
even disputed the authority of the kings of Scotland; but thei r
successive rebellions were punished by successive forfeitures both of
the ir ancient dignities and their possessions, and now that the house of
Argyll had become sufficiently powerful to enforce the decrees of the
King and Parli ament, and had a strong interest in carrying these decrees
into effect, the e xtensive territories which for many generations had
belonged to the Lordship of the Isles were finally wrested from their
ancient possessors and conferred upon the loyal clans, and especially
upon the Campbells, who could now meet in the field the combined forces
of all the other Western septs
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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*There are earlier generations for the ancestor(s) indicated. See their page(s) for details (click name)
- b.1280 in Lochowe, Argyll, Scotland d.1340
- b.~ 1310 in Lochowe, Argyll, Scotland d.~ 1372 in Lochowe, Argyll, Scotland
- b.1285 in Lennox, Dunbartonshire, Scotland
- b.~ 1344 in Lochowe, Argyll, Scotland d.1413 in Scotland
- b.~ 1276 in Cowell, Loch Awe, Argyll, Scotland d.1353
- b.~ 1318 in Lamont, Cowal Peninsula, Argyll, Scotland d. in Lochowe, Argyll, Scotland
- b.~ 1285 in Loch Awe, Argyll, Scotland
- b.1390 in Lochowe, Argyll, Scotland d.1453 in Lochowe, Argyll, Scotland
- b.1287 in Scotland d.~ 1346 in Durham, England
- b.1328 in Inchmahome, Scotland d.1373
- b.~ 1299 in Scotland
- b.~ 1354 in Inchmahome, Scotland
- b.~ 1300 in Auchterarder and Corgil, Perthshire, Scotland
- b.1328 in Scotland
- b.~ 1305 in Menteith, Perthshire, Scotlnad
- b.~ 1405 in Lochowe, Argyll, Scotland d.Mar 1440 in Argyll, Scotland
- b.1292 in Dundonald, Ayrshire, Scotland d.09 Apr 1326 in Bathgate, Scotland
- b.02 Mar 1316 in Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland d.19 Apr 1390 in Dundonald Castle, Ayrshire, Scotland
- b.1297 in Scotland d.02 Mar 1316 in Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland
- b.~ 1339 in Dundonald, Ayrshire Scotland d.03 Sep 1420 in Stirling Castle, Stirlingshire, Scotland
- b.1294 in Rowallan Castle, Kilmarnock, Ayrshire, Scotland d.~ 1330
- b.1320 in Rowallan, Kilmarnock, Ayrshire, Scotland d.1355 in Scotland
- b.~ 1298 in Polkelly, Ayrshire, Scotland
- b.1388 in Lorn, Argyll, Scotland
- b.~ 1262 in Galston, Ayrshire, Scotland d.17 Oct 1346 in Durham, England
- b.< 1340 in Scotland
- b.~ 1267 in Scotland
- b.~ 1351 in Argyll, Scotland d.<01 Jun 1449
- b.~ 1304 in Touch Fraser, Stirlingshire, Scotland
- b.~ 1321 in Touch Fraser, Stirlingshire, Scotland d.< 1410
- b.~ 1304
- b.~ 1440 in Argylshire, Scotland d.10 May 1493 in Scotland
- b.~ 1346 in Carnworth, Lanarkshire, Scotland d.> 1400 in Cambusnethan, Lanarkshrire, Scotland
- b.~ 1370 in Cambusnethan, Lanarkshrire, Scotland d.1444 in Cowthally Castle, Carnwath, Lanarkshire, Scotland
- b.~ 1350 in Cambusnethan, Lanarkshrire, Scotland d.1400
- b.~ 1388 in Cowthally Castle, Carnwath, Lanarkshire, Scotland d.20 Aug 1456 in Cowthally Castle, Carnwath, Lanarkshire, Scotland
- b.1342 in Darnley, Renfrewshire, Scotland d.May 1404 in Darnley, Renfrewshire, Scotland
- b.~ 1372 in Darnley, Renfrewshire, Scotland d.~ 1407
- b.~ 1340 in Galston, Ayrshire, Scotland d.~ 1406 in Darnley, Renfrewshire, Scotland
- b.~ 1406 in Cowthally Castle, Carnwarth, Lanarkshrire, Scotland d.Nov 1491 in Cowthally Castle, Carnwarth, Lanarkshrire, Scotland
- b.~ 1365 in Stonehouse, Lanarkshire, Scotland
- b.~ 1388 in Stonehouse, Lanarkshire, Scotland d.1458 in Cowthally Castle, Carnwath, Lanarkshire, Scotland
- b.~ 1425 in Cowthally Castle, Carnwath, Lanarkshire, Scotland
- b.< 1322 in Hailes Castle, Prestonkirk, East Lothian, Scotland d.> 1402 in Hailes Castle, Prestonkirk, East Lothian, Scotland
- b.~ 1348 in Hailes Castle, Prestonkirk, East Lothian, Scotland d.22 Jun 1402 in Wooler, Northumberland, England
- b.~ 1322 in Scotland d.< 1375
- b.~ 1382 in Hailes Castle, Prestonkirk, East Lothian, Scotland d.~ 1445 in Hailes Castle, Prestonkirk, East Lothian, Scotland
- b.~ 1298 in Dirleton Castle, East Lothian, Scotland d.< 1364 in Dirleton Castle, East Lothian, Scotland
- b.~ 1345 in Dirleton Castle, East Lothian, Scotland
- b.~ 1408 in Hailes Castle, Prestonkirk, East Lothian, Scotland
- b.~ 1338 in Catcume, Midlothian, Scotland d.~ 1414 in Catcume, Midlothian, Scotland
- b.~ 1362 in Catcume, Midlothian, Scotland d.~ 1439 in Locherwort Castle, Gorebridge, Midlothian, Scotland
- b.1384 in Lochorwart Castle, Gorebridge, Midlothian, Scotland
- b.~ 1345 in Locherwart Castle, Gorebridge, Midlothian, Scotland d.> 1397 in Yester Castle, Haddintonshire, Scotland
- b.1362 in Locherwort Castle, Gorebridge, Midlothian, Scotland
- b.~ 1344 in Yester Castle, Haddintonshire, Scotland
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Colin and Isabell were married in a religious ceremony about 1460. They had two sons and two daughters, named Thomas, Archibald, Elizabeth and Helen.
Family Notes
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Children
Archibald Campbell
Archibald was born in 1466 in Lochowe, Argyll, Scotland. He died at the age of 47 on September 9th, 1513 in Flodden Field, Northumberland, England.
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