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• Hij is geboren rond 1492 in Inveraray, Argyll, Scotland.Bron 1
• Titel: Abbot of Coupar, Lord Privy SealBron 1
• Beroep: in het jaar 1522 Student in St Salvator's College, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, Fife, Scotland.Bronnen 2, 3
• (Created) mei 1525: King James V of Scotland recommended Campbell's appointment as Abbot of Coupar Angus, a recommendation confirmed by parliament in the following year/Coupar Angus Abbey, Coupar Angus, Perthshire, Scotland.Bron 2
• Hij is overleden rond 1562.Bronnen 1, 2

  He died between 16 December 1562 and 20 January 1562/63, and is believed to be buried in Bendochy parish church with his sons David and Nicholas./Bendochy Parish Church, Bendochy, Perthshire, Scotland

• Een kind van Archibald Gillespie Campbell en Elizabeth Isabel Stuart

Gezin van Donald Campbell

Hij is getrouwd met Margaret Gordon.

Zij zijn getrouwd in het jaar 1516.Bron 1

Kind(eren):

1. Nicholas Campbell  ± 1517-1587 
2. David Campbell  ± 1520-< 1571
3. Margaret Campbell  < 1529-1580
4. John Campbell  ± 1521-± 1578
5. Colin Campbell  ± 1520-± 1585
6. Janet Campbell  
7. Sybilla Campbell  
8. Annabel Campbell  

Notities over Donald Campbell

Donald Campbell (Scottish Gaelic: Dòmhnall Caimbeul) (died 1562)
was a 16th-century Scottish noble and churchman. He was the son of Archibald Campbell, 2nd Earl of Argyll and Elizabeth Stewart, daughter of John Stewart, 1st Earl of Lennox.[1] From 1522, he was a student of St. Salvator's College, at the University of St. Andrews.[2] After graduation, he became a cleric in his home diocese, the diocese of Argyll.[2]

Abbot of Coupar Angus

In May 1525, King James V of Scotland recommended Campbell's appointment as Abbot of Coupar Angus, a recommendation confirmed by parliament in the following year - despite the fact that the monks of Coupar Angus Abbey had already elected one of their brothers, Alexander Spens, to the position in early 1524.[3] In September 1529, the papacy agreed that Campbell could hold the abbey for eight months in commendam, providing that if he did not become a monk in this period the abbey would thereafter be regarded as vacant;[3] the following February, 1530, he received an eight-month extension to this.[3] Campbell seems to have complied, and was in France in the following months.[2]

Donald was back in Scotland in 1532, attending parliament that year.[2] In May 1533, he was given a five-year appointment as commissioner of the Chapter-General of the Scottish Cistercian Order.[2] While delegating the ordinary business of the abbey to monks, kinsmen and friends, and in Scotland held a variety of high-profile political offices in this period, including Senator of the College of Justice (July 1541), Lord of the Articles for the parliaments of March and December 1543 and was a member of the Privy Council (June 1545); he had visited France again in 1536.[2]
Bishopric of Dunkeld

In 1549 he secured crown nomination to the bishopric of Dunkeld from the Governor of Scotland, James Hamilton, Duke of Châtellerault.[4] The vacancy was caused by the translation of the previous bishop, John Hamilton, to the archbishopric of St Andrews in 1547.[5]

His appointment was opposed by one Robert Crichton. Crichton was the nephew of George Crichton, Bishop of Dunkeld, who had died in 1544, and had been appointed coadjutor and successor to his uncle the year before the latter's death - without the consent of the Scottish government.[6] The government thus ignored the appointment, placing Hamilton in charge. Robert litigated - unsuccessfully - against Hamilton in the Papal see.[7] When Hamilton was translated, Crichton was still litigating.[6] The dispute continued into 1553.[6] When Mary of Guise took over the government from Châtellerault in 1554, she acknowledged Crichton's position and Campbell appears to have given up the bishopric.[4] In this year, perhaps in compensation, he was made Keeper of the Privy Seal, a position he held until his death in 1562.[2]
Brechin and the Reformation

By 1558, and perhaps as early as 1557, Campbell pursued another bishopric, the bishopric of Brechin, possibly receiving a nomination from Mary of Guise.[8] The vacancy had been caused by the death of Bishop John Hepburn in the early summer of 1557.[9] Campbell's proctor in Rome, John Row, attempted to gain permission for his master to abandon the dress Cistercian monk and to hold the bishopric of Brechin with the abbacy of Coupar Angus.[10] Campbell never seems to have been awarded the see.[2]

Campbell's ambition for Brechin was overtaken by the events of the Scottish Reformation. Although he was present at the burning of the Protestant Walter Milne in April 1558, in the following year Abbot Campbell himself became a Protestant and, at the urging of the Lords of the Congregation, abandoned monastic habit, banned mass from his monastery and destroyed its icons and altars.[2] He entrusted Coupar Angus Abbey at this time to his friend Katherine Campbell, Countess of Crawford.[11] In the following year he attended the Reformation Parliament which severed Scotland's ties with Rome.[2]

He died sometime between 16 December 1562 and 20 January 1563.[12] He is said to have left five illegitimate sons, who were later declared legitimate in order that they might inherit estates of property given to them from the tracts of land formerly belonging to the Catholic Church and redistributed by the state post-Reformation.[13]

Notes

Watt and Shead, Heads of Religious Houses, p. 46; Kirk, "Campbell, Donald (d. 1562)".
Kirk, "Campbell, Donald (d. 1562)".
Watt and Shead, Heads of Religious Houses, p. 46.
Watt, Fasti Ecclesiae, p. 100.
Foggie, Janet P., "Hamilton, John (1510/11-1571)".
Dowden, Bishops of Scotland, pp. 88-92; Watt, Fasti Ecclesiae, p. 100.
Dowden, Bishops of Scotland, pp. 88-92
See Dowden, Bishops of Scotland, p. 190, and Watt, Fasti Ecclesiae, p. 41.
Dowden, Bishops of Scotland, p. 190; but compare Watt, Fasti Ecclesiae, p. 41.
Dowden, Bishops of Scotland, p. 191.
"Campbell, Katherine, countess of Crawford (d. 1578), noblewoman". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/69900. Retrieved 19 March 2021.
Watt, Fasti Ecclesiae, p. 41.
Warden, Angus or Forfarshire, p6

References

Dowden, John, The Bishops of Scotland, ed. J. Maitland Thomson, (Glasgow, 1912)
Foggie, Janet P., "Hamilton, John (1510/11-1571)", in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 , retrieved 19 Feb 2007
Kirk, James, "Campbell, Donald (d. 1562)", in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 , retrieved 19 Feb 2007
Watt, D.E.R., Fasti Ecclesiae Scotinanae Medii Aevi ad annum 1638, 2nd Draft, (St Andrews, 1969)
Warden, Alex Johnston, "Angus or Forfarshire, Land and People, Desrciptiv and Historical", Vol IV, Charles Alexander & Co, Dundee, 1884 (Internet Archive)
Watt, D.E.R. & Shead, N.F. (eds.), The Heads of Religious Houses in Scotland from the 12th to the 16th Centuries, The Scottish Records Society, New Series, Volume 24, (Edinburgh, 2001)

Familysearch

Year Book of Clan Gregor Society 1977 (pub. 1978)
The Ancestral History of Margaret Campbell of Keithick (c1571-1631) by Charles G. Kurz pages 55-65

Notes

DONALD CAMPBELL, Abbot of Coupar Angus (1492-1562)
In the political and religious history of Scotland, the life of Donald Campbell is well documented. But to document him as an ancestral parent of many children encounters the problem of identifying their mother(s), for marriages of religious men were not acknowledged until the Scottish Reformation in 1560, a few years before Donald Campbell's death. However, official sources well document land grants to many of his children.
Donald Campbell is believed to have been born in 1492 at Inveraray, seat of the Campbells of Argyll. There is tradition that in his early life Donald was a soldier, but by 1525 he was clerk of Lismore in the diocese of Argyll. Donald Campbell's brother Colin, the 3rd Earl of Argyll, had become prominent in the court of young King James V. On 14 June 1526, the King sent to the Pope the nomination of Donald Campbell to become abbot of Cupar abbey (Acts of the Parliament of Scotland, ii, p. 302; Charters of Coupar Angus Abbey, vol. II, pp. 276-277). In 1529, King James V. expressed his satisfaction at the appointment of the new abbot of Cupar (Tyninghame Letter Book, G RH).
Thus, by 1529, Donald Campbell became the last Roman Catholic abbot of this very ancient Cistercian abbey of Coupar Angus in eastern Perthshire. As abbot, he traveled to Rome, England and France as a Cistercian prelate and as a diplomat.
The first official document in connection with his appointment is when Donald Campbell appears as abbot-nominee 13 May 1529, when the "whole fruits" of the abbey for 1529/30 were set, by his advice, to Master David Campbell (his son) and Sir John Campbell (his brother). (Acts of the Lords of Council in Public Affairs, 1501-1554, p. 310.)
By King James V, Donald was appointed a Lord of Session in 1541, and he became one of the senators of the College of Justice. Under the new reign of the young Queen Mary Stewart, he was appointed member of the Privy Council of the Earl of Arran, Regent of Scotland.
In 1552, and from 1554 until at least 16 December 1562, Donald Campbell was the Keeper of the Privy Seal. He sat in the Scottish Parliament and in the Convention of Estates, where on 17 August 1560 the reformed doctrine was legally recognized and the Protestant Church was established, thereby annulling the Pope's authority in Scotland and prohibiting celebration of the mass. (Acts of the Parliament of Scotland, ii, p. 525; Charters of Coupar Angus Abbey, vol. II. pp. 277-279.)
Donald Campbell was nominated by the Regent Arran in 1549/50 to be Bishop of Dunkeld. and again nominated in 1558/ 59 by the Regent Queen Mother, Mary of Guise, to be Bishop of Brechin. In both instances, however. these nominations failed to receive papal confirmation. It is likely that Donald was leaning toward the Reformed movement, and it was possible that he was Protestant by 19 May 1559, when he was reported to be wearing "secular weeds". (Fasti Ecclesiae Scot. Medii Aevi, 2nd, p. 41.)
He died between 16 December 1562 and 20 January 1562/63, and is believed to be buried in Bendochy parish church with his sons David and Nicholas.
In his time, Donald Campbell was considered a very able abbot, diplomat and politician, and was even asked by the Cistercian Order to participate in the improvement of the morally decaying Scottish monastic houses before the Reformation. He certainly had a good measure of the Campbell trait of always being sensitive to changes over a time period, which usually enabled the Campbells to be on the side of the winning faction.
Donald Campbell became abbot during the period when the dominant families of Scotland were seeking charters and land grants of the rich monastic lands. As Abbot of Coupar Angus Abbey, Donald was able to make generous grants of lands to his relatives. Most of the information concerning his children is derived from his grants to them of abbey lands and perquisites.
Since Donald Campbell was about 37 years of age when he officially became Abbot in 1529, some authorities believe his earlier children were legitimate. There is no certain information as to the total number-some sources stating five, others accepting nine children.
His first three children who were born before 1529 and who were all believed mothered by Margaret (surname unknown) were: David of Keithick, Margaret of Kemphill, and Nicholas (Nicol) of Dalvany and Keithick.
Others accepted as natural children, and shown on Herbert Campbell's Collection of Campbell Pedigrees (Lyon Office, H. M. Register House) were: David of Denhead, Colin of Crunan, John of the Boat and Souttarhouse, Robert burgess of Ayr, Thomas of Little Keithick, and Andrew of Chapeltoun.
In the interest of brevity, only the lives of the first three children of Donald Campbell will be mentioned in this article.
I. DAVID CAMPBELL, 1st of Keithick
Although the date of birth is unknown, he was probably born at Inveraray, Argyll. He is first cited on 13 May 1529, when abbot-nominee Donald Campbell reserved the "whole fruits" and profits of the lands, kirks and rents of Coupar Abbey, 1529-1531, for Master David Campbell and his uncle Sir John Campbell of Cawder. (Acts of Lords of Council in Public Affairs, 1501-1554, p. 310.)
Abbot Donald granted a feu-charter to David Campbell of certain areas of the lands of Keithick; heir-male failing, remainders to Nicholas Campbell, his brother, and then to Margaret, their sister. (Register of the Privy Seal, vol. VI, p. 285.)
In 1536, David Campbell was among the party of distinguished Scots, led by Archibald, 4th Earl of Argyll, that journeyed to Paris to attend the wedding of King James V to Madeleine de Valois at Notre Dame Cathedral on I January 1537. Besides the nobility, others in the party were: John McGregour of Glenstra, Patrick McGregour of Lagory, Duncane McGregour, RoWIow Gregour, his son, Gregour Dougalsoun and John, his brother. Also in the party was William Drummond in Stobhall. (Register of the Privy Seal, vol. II, p. 320.)
David Campbell died before 30 August 1571, apparently single and without issue. He is buried in Bendochy parish church near Coupar Angus. The inscription on his monumental stone, on the inside wall of the church, is so eroded it cannot be read except for the name.
2. MARGARET CAMPBELL of Kemphill
Again the date of birth is unknown, but she too was probably born at Inveraray, Argyll. Margaret is documented by a charter from Abbot Donald granting her on 15 December 1550 the lands of Kemphill, Bruntyhill and the Cowbyre of Keithick; heir-male failing, remainders to her brothers David of Keithick and then to Nicholas of Dalvany. (Charters of Coupar Angus Abbey, vol. II, p. 224.)
Margaret resigned this grant as dowry upon her marriage to Walter Lindsay, son of the late David Lindsay, 9th Earl of Crawford and Katherine Campbell who was the daughter of Sir John Campbell of Calder (Cawdor) (brother of Abbot Donald Campbell). On 10 June 1574, the original grant was confirmed anew to Walter Lindsay and Margaret Campbell, his spouse, by King James VI. (Register of the Great Seal, vol. IV, p. 559, No. 2260.)
Margaret's name is not mentioned in Scottish archives after 1574, nor when her husband Walter Lindsay in 1587 had a royal charter of the baronry of Balgawies.
(It should be noted that Margaret Campbell of Kemphill was the aunt of Margaret Campbell of Keilhick and later Balmaclone.)
3. NICHOLAS (NICOL) CAMPBELL of Dalvany and Keithick (1517-1587) He was the progenitor of the Keithick branch of Campbells from whence came Margaret Campbell, the Scottish ancestress of the Magruders of Maryland.
From Scottish documentation we are certain that Nicholas (Nicol) Campbell: was the son of Donald Campbell, Abbot of Coupar Angus Abbey; was married to Katherine Drummond of Blair; was the father of four known children, one of whom was Margaret Campbell of Keithick, who married Andrew Drummond of Balmaclone, Alexander McGruder (the elder), and Donald Campbell.
From the monumental stone on the inside wall of Bendochy parish church, we know that Nicholas Campbell was born in 1517, probably at Inveraray, Argyll. A translation of the Latin inscription on his stone is as follows:
Under this tomb there lies
the memory of
the very former and
highly skillful man of God
Master Nicholas Campbell of Keithick
who was the grandson of the
former Earl of Argyll
through the
Venerable Father, Lord Donald Campbell,
Abbot of Cupar,
who departed this life in the year 1587
in the year of his age 70.
This inscription establishes Nicholas Campbell's birth as 1517 and his death as 1587. In addition, it cites the genealogy of three generations of the Campbells of Keithick.
Although the name of Nicholas' mother is uncertain, some researchers believe her name was Margaret (surname unknown), and she was also the mother of Nicholas' brother David of Keithick and their sister Margaret of Kemphill. Since David, Nicholas and Margaret are named as remainder heirs in the grant of lands to each by Donald Campbell, Abbot of Coupar Angus Abbey, this lends credence to the belief that these three had the same mother. However, Herbert Campbell's Collection of Campbell Pedigrees lists them as natural children of Abbot Donald and mother unknown.
Researchers who seek legitimacy note that Nicholas was nine years old in 1526, when his father was nominated as Abbot of Coupar Angus Abbey. That must assume that Donald Campbell was a layman who had legitimate children before taking the Cistercian Order of Priesthood to qualify to Rome as abbot.

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