Colin Campbell, 3rd Earl of Argyll (c. 1486 – 9 October 1529) was a
Scottish
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*Scottish English
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nobleman
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and
soldier
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Etymology
The wo ...
. He was also known as "Cailen Malloch".
Life
Colin Campbell was the son of
Archibald Campbell, 2nd Earl of Argyll
Gillespie Archibald Campbell, 2nd Earl of Argyll ( – 9 September 1513) was a Scottish nobleman and politician who was killed at the Battle of Flodden.
Biography
Archibald was the eldest son of Colin Campbell, 1st Earl of Argyll and Isabel S ...
and Lady Elizabeth Stuart, daughter of
John Stewart, 1st Earl of Lennox
John Stewart, 1st Earl of Lennox (before 14308 July/11 September 1495) was a Scottish earl. He was known as Lord Darnley and later as the Earl of Lennox.
Family
Stewart was the son of Catherine Seton and Alan Stewart of Darnley, a direct des ...
. In 1506/07, he married Lady Jean Gordon, the eldest daughter of
Alexander Gordon, 3rd Earl of Huntly by his first wife, Lady Jean Stewart. He succeeded as
Earl of Argyll
Earl () is a rank of the nobility in the United Kingdom. In modern Britain, an earl is a member of the peerage, ranking below a marquess and above a viscount. A feminine form of ''earl'' never developed; instead, ''countess'' is used.
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upon the death of his father on 9 September 1513.
Campbell led an army against the insurrection of various
Highland
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chieftains; a few years later, he joined the court of King
James V of Scotland
James V (10 April 1512 – 14 December 1542) was List of Scottish monarchs, King of Scotland from 9 September 1513 until his death in 1542. He was crowned on 21 September 1513 at the age of seventeen months. James was the son of King James IV a ...
. He was given the position of
Lord Warden of the Marches
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, and in 1528,
Lord Justice General
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of Scotland. He died on 9 October 1529, and was buried at
Kilmun Parish Church on the
Cowal Peninsula, west of Scotland.
Colin Campbell was succeeded by his son,
Archibald Campbell. The Campbell family resided at
Castle Campbell
Castle Campbell is a medieval castle situated above the town of Dollar, Clackmannanshire, in central Scotland. It was the lowland seat of the earls and Duke of Argyll, dukes of Argyll, chiefs of Clan Campbell, from the 15th to the 19th century, ...
, near
Dollar, Clackmannanshire
Dollar () is a small town in Clackmannanshire, Scotland, with an estimated population of in . It is east of Stirling.
Toponymy
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, Scotland.
Family
Children of Colin Campbell, 3rd Earl of Argyll and Lady Jean Gordon:
*
Archibald Campbell, 4th Earl of Argyll (d. bt 21 August 1558 – 2 December 1558), married three times.
* John Campbell, 1st of Lochnell (d. 13 May 1568), was killed at the
Battle of Langside
The Battle of Langside was fought on 13 May 1568 between forces loyal to Mary, Queen of Scots, and forces acting in the name of her infant son James VI. Mary’s short period of personal rule ended in 1567 in recrimination, intrigue, and disast ...
.
* Lady Elizabeth Campbell (d. c. 1548), married: firstly,
James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray
James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray (c. 1531 – 23 January 1570) was a member of the House of Stewart as the illegitimate son of King James V of Scotland. At times a supporter of his half-sister Mary, Queen of Scots, he was the regent of Scotl ...
, an illegitimate son of King
James IV of Scotland
James IV (17 March 1473 – 9 September 1513) was List of Scottish monarchs, King of Scotland from 11 June 1488 until his death at the Battle of Flodden in 1513. He inherited the throne at the age of fifteen on the death of his father, James I ...
; secondly,
John Gordon, 11th Earl of Sutherland
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Works
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*
Lady Agnes Campbell (b. 1526, d. 1601), married: firstly,
James MacDonald, 6th of Dunnyveg
James MacDonald (Scottish Gaelic: ''Séamus Mac Dhòmhnaill''; 1501 – 5 July 1565), 6th Scottish clan chief, Chief of Clan MacDonald of Dunnyveg, was a Scottish-Gaelic lord.
Biography
MacDonald was the son of Alexander MacDonald, 5th of Dunn ...
; secondly, Sir
Turlough Luineach O'Neill
Sir Turlough Lynagh O'Neill (also known as Turlough Luineach) ( Irish: ''An Ridire Toirdhealbhach Luineach mac Néill Chonnalaigh Ó Néill''; – September 1595) was an Irish Gaelic lord of Tír Eoghain in early modern Ireland. He was inau ...
of
Tír Eoghain
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, Ireland.
[Alison Cathcart, 'Family, Kinship and Clan Policy in Sixteenth-Century Scottish Gaeldom', Elizabeth Ewen & Janay Nugent, ''Finding the Family in Medieval and Early Modern Scotland'' (Ashgate, 2008), p. 135.]
Campbell's sister, Lady Catherine Campbell, survived a murder attempt by her husband, Lachlan
Maclean of Duart, in 1527. Maclean rowed out to
Lady's Rock in the
Firth of Lorne
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one night at low tide and left his wife stranded.
Ancestry
See also
*
Agnes Campbell
Lady Agnes Campbell (1526 – in or after 1590) was a Scottish noblewoman and queen consort of Tír Eoghain. She was the mother of Iníon Dubh and the maternal grandmother of Red Hugh O'Donnell.
Campbell was a skilled diplomat and political lead ...
References
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