Colin Campbell, 3rd Earl of Argyll

Colin Campbell
Earl of Argyll
Tenure	9 September 1513 – 9 October 1529
Predecessor	Archibald Campbell, 2nd Earl of Argyll
Successor	Archibald Campbell, 4th Earl of Argyll
Born	ca. 1486 Glen Orchy, Argyll, Scotland.
Died	9 October 1529 Lochgoilhead, Argyll, Scotland.
Buried	Kilmun Parish Church, Cowal, Scotland.
Nationality	Scottish
Residence	Castle Campbell
Spouse(s)	Lady Jean Gordon
Issue	Archibald Campbell, 4th Earl of Argyll John Campbell, 1st of Lochnell Elizabeth Campbell, Countess of Moray Agnes Campbell, Lady of Dunnyveg
Parents	Archibald Campbell, 2nd Earl of Argyll Lady Elizabeth Stuart

Colin Campbell, 3rd Earl of Argyll (c. 1486 – 9 October 1529) was a Scottish nobleman and soldier. He was also known as "Cailen Malloch".

Life

Colin Campbell was the son of Archibald Campbell, 2nd Earl of Argyll and Lady Elizabeth Stuart, daughter of John Stewart, 1st Earl of Lennox. 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 upon the death of his father on 9 September 1513.

Campbell led an army against the insurrection of various Highland chieftains; a few years later, he joined the court of King James V of Scotland. He was given the position of Lord Warden of the Marches, and in 1528, Lord Justice General of Scotland.[1] 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, near Dollar, Clackmannanshire, 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.[2]
• Lady Elizabeth Campbell (d. c. 1548), married: firstly, James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray, an illegitimate son of King James IV of Scotland; secondly, John Gordon, 11th Earl of Sutherland[3]
• Lady Agnes Campbell (b. 1526, d. 1601), married: firstly, James MacDonald, 6th of Dunnyveg; secondly, Sir Turlough Luineach O'Neill of Tír Eoghain, Ireland.[4]

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 one night at low tide and left his wife stranded.[5]^[better source needed]

Ancestry

Ancestors of Colin Campbell, 3rd Earl of Argyll
Archibald Campbell, Master of Campbell Colin Campbell, 1st Earl of Argyll Elizabeth Somerville Archibald Campbell, 2nd Earl of Argyll John Stewart, 2nd Lord Lorn Isabel Stewart Colin Campbell, 3rd Earl of Argyll Alan Stewart of Darnley John Stewart, 1st Earl of Lennox Catherine Seton Elizabeth Stewart Alexander Montgomerie Margaret Montgomerie Elizabeth Hepburn

See also

• Agnes Campbell

References

1. "Person Page". thepeerage.com.
2. "Stirnet". www.stirnet.com.
3. Fraser, William, ed., Sutherland Book, vol.1 (1892), pp. 102
4. 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.
5. "The Lady's Rock - Lismore in Alba". Clan MacLea. Retrieved 25 July 2009.

Sources

• Stephen, Leslie, ed. (1886). "Campbell, Colin (d.1530)" . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 8. London: Smith, Elder & Co.

Legal offices
Preceded by ?	Lord Justice General 1528–1529	Succeeded by The Earl of Argyll
Peerage of Scotland
Preceded by Archibald Campbell	Earl of Argyll 1513–1529	Succeeded by Archibald Campbell