Gillespie Archibald Campbell, 2nd Earl of Argyll ( – 9 September 1513) was a Scottish

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and

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who was killed at the

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Biography

Archibald was the eldest son of Colin Campbell, 1st Earl of Argyll and Isabel Stewart, daughter of John Stewart and Agnes MacDonald. He was made Master of the Royal Household of

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on 24 March 1495. After a crisis of law and order in the west of Scotland, Argyll was made governor of Tarbert Castle and Baillie of Knapdale, and this was followed by an appointment as Royal Lieutenant in the former Lordship of the Isles on 22 April 1500. Argyll eventually rose to the position of

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. His "clan" was rivalled only by

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were hereditary Sheriffs of Lorne and

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. However, a draft record of the 1504

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records a move to request Argyll to hold his Sherriff Court at

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, where the King and his council could more easily oversee proceedings, if the Earl was found at fault. The historian Norman Macdougall suggests this clause may have been provoked by Argyll's kinship with Torquil MacLeod and MacLean of Duart. These western chiefs supported the suppressed Lordship of the Isles. The Earl of Argyll was killed at the

on 9 September 1513, with the king and many others. He is buried at Kilmun Parish Church.

Family

By his wife Elizabeth, a daughter of John Stewart, 1st Earl of Lennox and Agnes MacDonald, had issue:James Balfour Paul, Scots Peerage, vol i, pp 335-337
/ref> * Colin Campbell * Archibald Campbell of Skipness (d 1537 escaping from

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), second husband of Janet Douglas, Lady Glamis * Sir John Campbell of Calder (d.1546) ancestor of the Earls Cawdor * Donald Campbell the Abbot of Coupar Angus * Margaret Campbell, who married John Erskine, 5th Lord Erskine * Isabel Campbell, married Gilbert Kennedy, 2nd Earl of Cassilis * Janet Campbell, married John Stewart, 2nd Earl of Atholl * Jean Campbell, married Sir John Lamont

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, son Duncan Lamont * Catherine Campbell, married Lachlan Cattanach Maclean, 11th Chief of Duart, secondly to Archibald Campbell of Auchinbreck * Marion Campbell, married Sir Robert Menzies of that ilk * Elen Campbell, married Sir Gavin Kennedy of Blairquhan * Mary Campbell, married James Stewart, 4th Earl of Bute

References

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