John Campbell of Cawdor (nobleman) explained

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:

• Archibald Campbell, died in December 1551.
• Katherine Campbell, Countess of Crawford, died on 1 October 1578.^[2]
• John Campbell, Bishop of the Isles, died in 1585.
• Janet Campbell
• Donald Campbell
• Marjory Campbell
• Duncan Campbell, died in 1572
• William Campbell
• Isabell Campbell
• Alexander Campbell
• Ann Campbell

References

• burkes-peerage.net, "The Campbells of Cawdor". Extract from The Great Historic Families of Scotland (1887), by James Taylor
• The Book of the Thanes of Cawdor: A Series of Papers selected from the Charter Room at Cawdor 1236-1742 By Spalding Club, Aberdeen 1859

Notes and 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. Web site: Campbell, Katherine, countess of Crawford (d. 1578), noblewoman. 2021-03-19. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. en. 10.1093/ref:odnb/69900.