Sir John Campbell (c. 1490 - 1 May 1546) was a Scottish nobleman and the eponymous ancestor of the Campbells of Cawdor.

John was the third son of the Archibald Campbell, 2nd Earl of Argyll and Elizabeth, a daughter of John Stewart, 1st Earl of Lennox. He married the daughter and heiress of Sir John Calder of Calder, in 1510, whom his father had kidnapped.

Campbell made several "bonds of manrent" which formalised and cemented alliances between families. He made bands with Archbibald Campbell of Kilmichael (1516), Gilchrist Macarthur (1517), John McKerris (1517), Lachlan Mclean of Doward, Donald Ewynson, Alexander McAllan (1520), John Macallan in Lochaber (1519), the Clan Macindean (1519), the Clan MacDoulane (1518), and others.[1]

He died on 1 May 1546, his wife Muriel surviving him dying in 1575.

Family

By his wife, Muriel, daughter of John Calder of Calder and Isabella Rose, their children were:

References

  1. Cosmo Innes, Book of the Thanes of Cawdor (Aberdeen, 1859), pp. 126-135: Jenny Wormald, Lords and Men in Scotland (Edinburgh, 1985), pp. 252–260.
  2. "Campbell, Katherine, countess of Crawford (d. 1578), noblewoman". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/69900. Retrieved 19 March 2021.


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