26TH GENERATION
34996226. Colin CAMPBELL
(1183)
(1184)(1185)
(1186) died in 1294.(1187)
Sir Colin Mor Campbell, Gaelic patronymic was killed in 1294 He Earl of Argyll
in 1457 in Dondonld Castle, Strathlyde, SCOTLAND. He High Chancelor.
Sir Colin Campbell (of Lochow) knighted in ** 1286, who bequeathed to the chiefs
of his line the title Mac Callum More (great Colin's son).
Colin supported Bruce and was rewarded many estates and his lands were wide
spread, and the principle branches of the clan were the Campbells of Breadalbane
and Campbells of Cawdor, the Campbells of Glenlyon were related to Rob Roy MacGregor.
The chief lands were in Argyll, and the seat of the chiefs was Inverary Castle
of Loch Fyne.
Almost 200 years later a descendant, Sir Duncan Campbell, was made a peer as
Lord Campbell in 1445; his son Colin was the first earl of Argyll in 1457. And
was made Lord High Chancellor of Scotland.
The Campbells were among the first Scottish noble families to adopt Protestantism.
Archibald Campbell, 1st Marquess of Argyll, led the Scottish Covenanters during
the wars of the English Revolution, and his descendants, the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd
dukes of Argyll, were prominent Whigs who supported the Revolution of 1688, the
Union of England and Scotland, and the Hannoverian kings, in opposition to the
Scottish Jacobites
Campbell (family), Scottish noble family, of the former county of Argyllshire,
bearing the hereditary titles of earls, marquesses, and dukes of Argyll. Became
the proprietors of the Loch Awe Estates and Captains of the Dunstaffnage following
the breaking of the MacArthur power, when Iain MacAuthur (head of the MacArthur
clan) was beheaded, by King James in 1427.
Argyll, Archibald Campbell, 1st Marquess and 8th Earl of (1598-1661), Scottish
statesman, great-grandson of the 5th earl. A Puritan, he was a leader of the
Covenanters, and at the onset of the first phase of the English Revolution, he
forced Charles I, king of England, to submit to the demands of the Scottish Parliament.
In 1645 Argyll and his forces were defeated at Inverlochy by Scottish Royalist
nobles led by James Graham Montrose. After the execution of Charles I in 1649,
Argyll invited Charles II to Scotland and crowned him king of Scotland at Scone
in 1651. In 1660, upon the restoration of Charles II as king of England, Argyll
was arrested on a charge of having collaborated with the Commonwealth leader
Oliver Cromwell in the latter's invasion of Scotland in 1650. Argyll was tried
by the Scottish Parliament and was convicted and beheaded.
Children were:
16842753 i.
CAMPBELL.
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