Campbell

The Campbells were a Highland clan around Loch Awe in Argyll. Their name appears in 1263; marriage to the O'Duine heiress brought Loch Awe, and the clan was first known as Clan O'Duine. Their chief Cailean Mór was killed in 1296, and later chiefs bore the style MacCailean Mór. His son Neil backed Robert the Bruce, fought at Bannockburn in 1314 and married the king's sister Mary.

Created Lord Campbell in 1445 and Earl of Argyll in 1457, the Campbells rivaled the MacDonalds after the fall of the Lords of the Isles in 1493. The eighth earl led the Covenanters, was defeated in 1645 and executed in 1661; his son was beheaded in 1685 after Argyll's Rising.

Campbell soldiers led the Glencoe massacre of the MacDonalds in 1692, and the family became Dukes of Argyll in 1701. They fought for the government at Culloden in 1746.