John Campbell, Bishop of the Isles d. 15 Jul 1510: Campbell DNA Project Public

John Campbell, Bishop of the Isles

- 1510

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Name	John Campbell [1]
Suffix	Bishop of the Isles
Gender	Male
Died	15 Jul 1510 [2]
Person ID	I0131	Admin Kevin's Chiefly Lines
Last Modified	12 Jun 2022

Father	Sir Colin Cambel, 1st of Glenorchy, b. Abt 1406, d. 1480, Strathfillan, Perthshire (Age 74 years)
Relationship	natural
Mother	Mary Robertson
Relationship	natural
Married	Abt 1454
Family ID	F0076	Group Sheet \| Family Chart

Notes

See full text of "The bishops of Scotland: being notes on the lives of ..." page 290

[In Scots Peerage, ii. 177, he is said to have been son of Sir Colin Campbell, first of Glenurchy, by a second wife. But the following note preserved in the Vatican archives of a Bull contained in a volume now lost, indicates that he was illegitimate : ' Pro Johanne Cambel dispensatio illegitimitatis super provisione ecclesie Sodoren.'

On 26 March, 1466, Pope Paul II. dealt with the petition of Sir Colin Campbell, then ambassador from James III. to the Holy See, on behalf of John ' Cambel,' scholar of Lismore diocese, of baronial race on both sides, born of said Colin a married man and an unmarried woman, then in his seventh year, for dispensation to hold
two canonries and prebends of cathedral or collegiate churches ; which the pope granted when he should reach his ninth year {Reg. of Petitions to the Pope, 585, 206). This may well have been the same person. He was archdeacon of Lismore and under the canonical age, when he was provided on the death of Angus. If he were in his seventh year in 1466, he would not complete his thirtieth year till 1489. As archdeacon of Argyll he is a witness, 2 Aug. i486 (R.M.S. ii. 1662).]

Sources
[S03265] History of Clan Campbell, Volume 1, p. 134.

[S03270] Heraldry of the Campbells by G. Harvey Johnston.

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