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Neil Cambel, Master

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Name	Neil Cambel [1]
Suffix	Master
Gender	Male
Occupation	1293	Envoy of the Earl of Carrick [1]
Residence	1296	Lived in Ayrshire [1]
Person ID	I0014	Admin Kevin's Chiefly Lines
Last Modified	12 Jun 2022

Father	Sir Gillespic Cambel, b. Abt 1215, Scotland , d. Aft 1281, Scotland (Age > 67 years)
Relationship	natural
Mother	"Heretrix of Lochow" Efferic
Relationship	natural
Family ID	F0011	Group Sheet \| Family Chart

Notes

Professor Seller writes: "Similarly the clerical Master Neill Campbell appears to be the first Campbell to bear that christian name. He must, I think, be a brother of Colin Mor and a grand nephew of Neill, the last Celtic Earl of Carrick."

"When one discovers that both Master Neill and Colin Mor have associations with the Country of Ayr, the case is virtually complete: as mentioned above ... Master Neill Campbell was an envoy of the Earl of Carrick in 1293, while he appears in the Ragman Roll in 1296 as `Mestre Neel Cambel ... del counte de Are' (Cal.Docs.Scot.:2.199). Colin Mor was involved in 1293 in a transaction concerning the lands of Symington in Ayrshire (Newbattle Registrum 1849:137-42)."

"I would suggest, then, that the christian names `Colin' and `Neill' came into the Campbell family from the family of the Celtic Earls of Carrick by way of a marriage contracted about the middle of the thirteenth century. If this conjecture is correct, then the mother of King Robert Bruce, Earl of Carrick, and the mother of Colin Mor were first cousins, and the strong and consistent support given to Bruce by the family of Campbell is partly explicable on a kinship basis."

(Title Master means one who has matriculated a university. Was prisoner in England and was released in 1305 and given safe conduct to Scotland.)

Sources
[S03264] Journal of the Clan Campbell Society, Special Edition, Vol. 25, No. 2, Spring 1998.

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