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- Had a charter, 30 January 1423 new style, from his brother Duncan Campbell of Lochow. Birth date estimated from Clan MacFarlane web site (originally from LDS)
From the Clan MacFarlane web site:
Duncan 'the Great' of Glenshira was dispossessed by his brothers, ca.1422
There can be no doubt that the progenitor of Duntroon was named Duncan, since the family was always known in the old days as Siol Donachie Mor (Great Duncan's offspring) ; but as to his individuality, there is still some question. By some he is said to have been a son of Sir Colin Mor Campbell of Lochow, and to have received a charter of Duntroon from Robert Bruce in 1294, his wife's name being Agnes ; while others consider him to have been a natural son (or a son by the second marriage) of that knight's great-great-grandson, Sir Colin Iongatach Campbell, and to have flourished about the middle of the fifteenth century.
The earliest evidence I have so far found in documents of any laird of Duntroon is in 1358, when Colin, son of John Campbell of Duntroon, made " ane band of maintenance " with Gilbert Scrymgeour, Lord of Glassary ;i and the next is in 1448, when Duncan Campbell of Duntroon was one of the stewards of Ariskeadnish.2 This latter is the man that is supposed to have been the son of Sir Colin Iongatach. If this be so, then the former line of lairds must have died out ; but it is to be observed that, in the Craignish charter above referred to, Duncan Lord Campbell, Iongatach's son, does not call him fratri or fratri carnali, but simply dilecto nostro ; while there seems to be no documentary evidence that Lord Campbell had any brother or half-brother of the same name as himself.
A word as to Duntroon itself. The name has been derived from Dun nan Turaidhean (Castle of Towers) ; but this strikes one as rather far-fetched. A much more probable etymology is Dun na Trwyn (Castle of the Nose), seeing that it is situated on a bold naze, or promontory, overlooking the sea. It is a conspicuous landmark for northward-bound ships, soon after leaving the Crinan Canal.
General Stewart of Garth draws attention to the " uniform practice in the families of the Campbells of Melfort, Duntroon and Dunstaffnage, that, when the head of either family died, the chief mourners should be the other two lairds," even to the exclusion of the deceased's eldest son. This probably gave rise to the notion that the three families descended from three brothers.
[The Campbells of Duntroon by Herbert Campbell pub.1913]
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