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Campbell of Loudoun

Campbell of Loudoun

Campbells of Loudoun are the oldest branch of the house of Argyll, and are descended from Donald, second son of Sir Colin Campbell of Lochaw, and brother of Sir Neil Campbell, the friend of King Robert Bruce. The title is derived from the barony in Ayrshire, was originally the possession of the Loudouns of Loudoun, one of the oldest families in Scotland. Margaret of Loudoun, the heiress of the estate, married Sir Reginald Crawford, High Sheriff of Ayr, and was the grandmother of Sir William Wallace, the famous Scottish patriot. The barony passed to the Campbells in the reign of King Robert (the Bruce) by the marriage of Sir Duncan, son of Donald Campbell, to Susanne Crawford, heiress of Loudoun, and fifth in descent from Sir Reginald Crawford. Sir Hugh Campbell, Sheriff of Ayr, was created a Lord of Parliament by the title of Lord Campbell of Loudoun, by James VI., in 1601. His granddaughter, Margaret Campbell, who inherited his title and estates, married Sir John Campbell of Lawers, a descendant of the Campbells of Glenorchy, later known as the Campbell of Breadalbane family.

 

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Earl of Loudoun, named after Loudoun in Ayrshire, is a title in the Peerage of Scotland. It was created in 1633 for John Campbell, 2nd Lord Campbell of Loudoun, along with the subsidiary title Lord Tarrinzean and Mauchline. The 1st Earl's wife Margaret was the granddaughter and heiress of Hugh Campbell, who had been created Lord Campbell of Loudoun; he resigned the peerage in favour of his grandson-in-law, who was later created an earl.

 

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The 6th Countess married the 2nd Earl of Moira, who was later created Marquess of Hastings. The next three Earls also held that Marquessate. However, with the death of the 4th Marquess, the Marquessate became extinct, but the Earldom passed to the elder daughter of the 2nd Marquess. The title passed from Clan Campbell with the death of Lady Flora Mure-Campbell, suo jure (6th) Countess of Loudoun on 8 January 1840.

The heir apparent to the Earldom uses the courtesy title Lord Mauchline.

 

Campbell of Loudoun Pedigree

The lineage presented below is as represented in "The Red Book of Scotland" by Gordon MacGregor. The numbering (20), (722), etc beside each of the profiles is as represented on the Loudoun Pedigree illustrated in Johnston's, "The Heraldry of the Campbells" which is attached to this profile.

Sir Gillespic (Archibald) Cambel. He was the father of:

(2) Sir Colin Campbel of Lochow. He was the father of:

  1. Sir Neil Campbel of Lochow (see Campbell of Argyll)
  2. Sir Donald Campbell. He received from King Robert I a grant of half the lands of Reid Castle in Forfar. [1] He was the father of:
    1. Sir Duncan Campbell (continues below).
  3. Sir Dugal Campbel
  4. Sir Arthur Campbell

(722) Sir Duncan Campbell of Loudoun along with his wife Susanna Crawford received a charter in 1318 granted to them jointly from King Robert I, and to their heirs, for the land of Loudoun and Stevenstoun, to be held by them "in one entire and free barony." [2] He was the father of:

(723) Sir Andrew Campbell of Loudoun, Sherrif of Ayr. He was the father of:

(724) George Campbell of Loudoun, he was styled as "abatavi" of great-great-great grandfather of Sir Hugh Campbell of Loudoun in 1499. He was the father of:

  1. (725) Sir Hugh Campbell of Loudoun (continues below)
  2. John Campbell of Wester Loudoun, (putative son) see research notes. Had a charter under the Great Seal confirming the lands of Chalchverk in the sheriffdom of Ayr. Had issue (see Campbell of Wester Loudoun)

(725) Sir Hugh Campbell of Loudoun. He was the father of:

  1. (726) Sir George Campbell of Loudoun (continues below)
  2. David Campbell (see Campbell of Cessnock)
  3. Hugh or Hucheon Campbell

(726) Sir George Campbell, Lord of Loudoun. He was the father of:

  1. (727) Sir George Campbell of Loudoun (continue below)

(727) Sir George Campbell of Loudoun. He was the father of:

  1. (728) George Campbell (continues below)
  2. William Campbell
  3. Elizabeth Campbell, m: Robert, 4th Lord of Erskine who died in the battle of Flodden in 1513.
  4. Elena Campbell, m: Hugh, Lord Montgomery
    Sir George was the father of several natural children:
  5. John Campbell
  6. Thomas Campbell
  7. Robert Campbell

(728) George Campbell. He was the father of:

  1. (729) Sir Hugh Campbell of Loudoun and Sherrif of Ayr (continues below)
  2. George Campbell, either he or another brother was the ancestor of Hugh Campbell of Killoch, and the first of Campbell of Cessnock (735)
  3. Matthew Campbell
  4. Margaret Campbell, m: Sir Alan Lockhart of Lee.

(729) Sir Hugh Campbell of Loudoun and Sherrif of Ayr. He was the father of:

  1. Sir Hugh Campbell of Loudoun (continues below)
  2. Helen Campbell, m: Laurence Crawford of Kilbirnie.
  3. Isobel Campbell, m: William Crawford of Leffnoris
  4. Janet Campbell, m: John Campbell of Cessnock
  5. Margaret Campbell, m: Thomas Kennedy
  6. Annabella Campbell, m: 1) Thomas Boswell of Auchinleck who died in the battle of Flodden (1513), 2) John Cunnigham of Caprington.

(730) Sir Hugh Campbell of Loudoun. Succeded his father and being under age, his ward was gifted by the King to Thomas Boswell of Auchinleck. He was the father of:

  1. Sir Matthew Campbell of Loudoun (continues below)
  2. Thomas Campbell
    Sir Hugh was the father of two natural children:
  3. Alexander Campbell. Alexander and his sister Margaret had letters of legitimation in 1522.
  4. Margaret Campbell, m: Sir Alexander Nisbet of Bankhead.

(731) Sir Matthew Campbell of Loudoun. He was the father of:

  1. Sir Hugh Campbell of Loudoun (continues below)
  2. George Campbell
  3. Margaret Campbell, m: 1) Thomas, Master if Boyd, 2) Sir John Wallace of Craigie
  4. Jean Campbell, m: 1) Robert Montgomery of Giffin, 2) Ludovic Stewart. 2nd Duke of Lennox
  5. Agnes Campbell, m: William Cunningham of Caprington
  6. Annabella Campbell, m: 1) David Ker of Kersland, 2) David Dunbar of Enterkine

(732) Sir Hugh Campbell of Loudoun and 1st Lord of Loudoun. He was the father of:

  1. (733) George Campbell, Master of Loudoun. George, the only son of Sir Hugh Campbell, died before (vita patris) his father.
    George was the father of two daughters, so the titles went to his eldest daughter,
    Margaret Campbell, Baroness Loudoun. He was the father of:
    1. (734) Margaret Campbell, m: Sir John Campbell of Lawers (continues below)
    2. Elizabeth Campbell, m: Sir Hugh Campbell of Cessnock
  2. Juliana Campbell, m: Colin Campbell, eldest son and heir of Sir Duncan of Glenorchy
  3. Isobel Campbell, m: Sir John Maxwell of Pollock
  4. Margaret Campbell, m: John Kennedy of Blairquhan
  5. Agnes Campbell, m: Robert MacLellan of Bomby
  6. Jean Campbell
  7. Margaret Campbell, m: Sir William Cunnigham of Caprington

(734) Margaret Campbell, Baroness Loudoun; m: Sir John Campbell of Lawers.
2nd Lord Campbell of Loudoun, later 1st Earl of Loudoun (1633). The Loudon title
continued with Margaret and Sir John.

Earls of Loudoun (1633)

Earl of Loudoun, named after Loudoun in Ayrshire, is a title in the Peerage of Scotland. It was created in 1633 for John Campbell, 2nd Lord Campbell of Loudoun, along with the subsidiary title Lord Tarrinzean and Mauchline. The 1st Earl's wife Margaret was the granddaughter and heiress of Hugh Campbell, who had been created Lord Campbell of Loudoun; he resigned the peerage in favour of his grandson-in-law, who was later created an Earl.

The 6th Countess married the 2nd Earl of Moira, who was later created Marquess of Hastings. The next three Earls also held that Marquessate. However, with the death of the 4th Marquess, the Marquessate became extinct, but the Earldom passed to the elder daughter of the 2nd Marquess. The title passed from Clan Campbell with the death of Lady Flora Mure-Campbell, suo jure (6th) Countess of Loudoun on 8 January 1840.

The heir apparent to the Earldom uses the courtesy title Lord Mauchline.

John Campbell, 1st Earl of Loudoun

James Campbell, 2nd Earl of Loudoun

Hugh Campbell, 3rd Earl of Loudoun, KT PC

General John Campbell, 4th Earl of Loudoun

James Campbell [later Mure-Campbell], 5th Earl of Loudoun

Lady Flora Mure-Campbell, 6th Countess of Loudoun

George Augustus Francis Rawdon-Hastings, 2nd Marquess of Hastings and 7th Earl of Loudoun (b.?)

Lady Edith Maud Rawdon-Hastings, suo jure 8th Countess of Loudoun

Henry Weysford Charles Rawdon-Hastings, 4th Marquess of Hastings, 9th Earl of Loudoun

Lady Edith Maud Rawdon-Hastings [later Abney-Hastings], suo jure 10th Countess of Loudoun

Charles Edward Hastings [later Rawdon-Hastings, later Abney-Hastings], 11th Earl of Loudoun

Lady Edith Maud Abney-Hastings, suo jure 12th Countess of Loudoun

Lady Barbara Abney-Hastings [née Huddleston], suo jure 13th Countess of Loudoun

Michael Edward Abney-Hastings [née Lord], 14th Earl of Loudoun

Simon Michael Abney-Hastings, 15th Earl of Loudoun 

The heir presumptive to the Earldom of Loudoun is The Hon. Marcus William Abney-Hastings, Lord Mauchline, second son of the 14th Earl of Loudoun and brother of the present Earl.

When the last holder of the Earldom named Campbell died, the new holder of the Earldom had a new Coat of Arms. 

Coat of Arms for the Earl of Loudoun 1868-Present. 
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Research Notes

The Red Book of Scotland, which includes more recent scholarship, differs from The Heraldry of the Campbells and The Scots Peerage as to who was the father of Sir John Campbell of Wester Loudoun. Redbook lists Sir John Campbell of Wester Loudoun as the son of (724) George Campbell while both the Heraldry and Peerage list Sir John of Wester Loudoun as the son of (725) Hugh Campbell

Sources

  1. ↑ POMS, doc. no. 3/714/2 (Loudoun Chrs, no. 6). Mount Stuart, Loudoun Charters, no. 6, c.1310. "Donald Campbell gave, granted...to Lord Duncan Campbell his son, all his [land] within the barony of Red Castle..."
  2. ↑ POMS, doc. no. 1/53/137 (RRS, v, no. 128). Charter, Penicuik 4 Jan 1318. From Robert I to Duncan Campbell knight and his spouse Susanna of all the lands of Loudoun...
  • Johnston, G. Harvey. "The Heraldry of the Campbells", Edinburgh: 1920 Vol. II, pgs. 55-58
  • Paul, James Balfour. "The Scots Peerage : founded on Wood's ed. of Sir Robert Douglas's Peerage of Scotland; containing an historical and genealogical account of the nobility of that kingdom", Edinburgh: David Douglas,1908, Vol. V, Archive.org,
  • MacGregor, Gordon. "The Red Book of Scotland" Vol II Br-Ch, 2019
  • Clan Campbell Society of North America: https://www.ccsna.org/campbell-loudoun
  • Wikipedia, Earl of Loudoun: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl_of_Loudoun
  • The Peerage.com

Original research and page creation by C. Randell Randy Seale, OBM. Additional content and links provided by Kevin Guy Campbell of the Clan Campbell DNA Project. 

 

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