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

Kingdom of Scotland

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 nobleman and politician

Politician

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Biography

Archibald was the eldest son of Colin Campbell, 1st Earl of Argyll

Colin Campbell, 1st Earl of Argyll

Colin Campbell, 1st Earl of Argyll was a Scottish nobleman.-Biography:He was the son of Gillespic Campbell, Master of Campbell and Elizabeth Somerville. Elizabeth Somerville was the daughter of John Somerville, 3rd Lord Somerville and Helen Hepburn...

 and Isabel Stewart, daughter of John Stewart, 2nd Lord Lorn. He was made Master of the Royal Household of James IV of Scotland

James IV of Scotland

James IV was King of Scots from 11 June 1488 to his death. He is generally regarded as the most successful of the Stewart monarchs of Scotland, but his reign ended with the disastrous defeat at the Battle of Flodden Field, where he became the last monarch from not only Scotland, but also from all...

 on 24 March 1495. After a crisis of law and order in the west of Scotland, Archibald was made governor of Tarbert Castle

Tarbert Castle

Tarbert Castle is located on the southern shore of Tarbert Bay, at Tarbert, Argyll, Scotland, at the north end of Kintyre. Tarbert Castle was a strategic royal stronghold during the Middle Ages and one of three castles at Tarbert...

 and Baillie of Knapdale

Knapdale

Knapdale forms a rural district of Argyll and Bute in the Scottish Highlands, adjoining Kintyre to the south, and divided from the rest of Argyll to the north by the Crinan Canal. It includes two parishes, North Knapdale and South Knapdale....

, and this was followed by an appointment as Royal Lieutenant in the former Lordship of the Isles

Lord of the Isles

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 on 22 April 1500. Archibald eventually rose to the position of Lord High Chancellor of Scotland

Lord Chancellor of Scotland

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. His "clan" was rivalled only by Clan Gordon

Clan Gordon

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The Earls of Argll were hereditary Sheriffs of Lorne and Argyll

Argyll

Argyll , archaically Argyle , is a region of western Scotland corresponding with most of the part of ancient Dál Riata that was located on the island of Great Britain, and in a historical context can be used to mean the entire western coast between the Mull of Kintyre and Cape Wrath...

. However, a draft record of the 1504 Parliament of Scotland

Parliament of Scotland

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 records a move to request Archibald to hold his Sherriff Court at Perth

Perth, Scotland

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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 Archibald's kinship with Torquil MacLeod

Torquil MacLeod (forfeited clan chief)

Torquil MacLeod was the chief of Clan MacLeod of Lewis in around 1500. He died before 1510. He was born in about 1460, and mentioned in 1498, and in 1506....

 and MacLean

Maclean of Duart

The Macleans of Duart or Maclean of Dowart are the main sept of the Scottish clan Clan Maclean, whose chief has his seat at Duart Castle, Isle of Mull.-History:Lachlan Lubanach Maclean was the first Maclean to occupy Duart Castle....

 of Duart

Duart Castle

Duart Castle or Caisteal Dhubhairt in Scottish Gaelic is a castle on the Isle of Mull, off the west coast of Scotland, within the council area of Argyll and Bute...

. These western chiefs supported the suppressed Lordship of the Isles.

Archibald was killed at the Battle of Flodden on 9 September 1513, with his brother-in-law the Earl of Lennox

Matthew Stewart, 2nd Earl of Lennox

Matthew Stewart, 2nd Earl of Lennox was a prominent Scottish nobleman. Stewart was the son of John Stewart, 1st Earl of Lennox, and Margaret Montgomerie, daughter of Alexander, Master of Montgomerie....

 and his king.

Family

His wife Elizabeth, who was a daughter of John Stewart, 1st Earl of Lennox

John Stewart, 1st Earl of Lennox

John Stewart, 1st Earl of Lennox. was known as Lord Darnley and the Earl of Lennox. Stewart was the son of Catherine Seton and Sir Alan Stuart, a great-great-great-grandson of Alexander Stewart, 4th High Steward of Scotland....

, bore him nine children, including Colin Campbell

Colin Campbell, 3rd Earl of Argyll

Colin Campbell, 3rd Earl of Argyll was a Scottish nobleman and soldier. He was the son of Archibald Campbell, 2nd Earl of Argyll and 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...

, and Donald Campbell

Donald Campbell (abbot)

Donald Campbell was a 16th-century Scottish noble and churchman. He was the son of Archibald Campbell, 2nd Earl of Argyll and Elizabeth Stewart, daughter of John Stewart, 1st Earl of Lennox. From 1522, he was a student of St Salvator's College, at the University of St Andrews...

 the Abbot of Coupar Angus

Abbot of Coupar Angus

The Abbot of Coupar Angus was the head of the monastic community and lands of Coupar Angus Abbey, on the boundary between Angus and Gowrie in Scotland. The abbot David Bane was granted the mitre in 1464...

. A daughter Margaret married John Erskine, 5th Lord Erskine

John Erskine, 5th Lord Erskine

John Erskine, 5th Lord Erskine was a Scottish nobleman who was de jure but not de facto Earl of Mar.He succeeded to the title of 16th Earl of Mar de jure, [S., c. 1115], on 9 September 1513. On 3 August 1522, Mar was appointed keeper of the ten year old King James V of Scotland and Stirling Castle...

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