The Scottish Clans

Gaelic Name: Caimbeul
Motto: Follow
Badge: Wild myrtle, Fir club moss
Lands: Breadalbane
Origin of Name: Gaelic Caimbeul, from cam (wry) and beul (mouth)
Pipe Music: Bodaich nam Brigisean (The Carles with the breeks)

Associated Names and Septs (with spelling variations):
Cambal Cambale Cambel Cambele Cambell Cambelle Camble Cammell Campbele Campbell Campbill Campble Chambelle Chombeich Chombich Combach Combich Connochie Connoquhie Conochie Fichar Fischair Fischar Fischare Fischear Fischer Fisher Fisser Garro Garroch Garrow Gerrow Kambail Kambaile Kambayl Kumpel MacArlich MacArliche MacAvery MacCairlich MacCairlie MacCairly MacCarlach MacCarlich MacCarliche MacCarlie MacCarlycht MacCherlich MacChombeich MacChombich MacChomich MacChonachy MacCombich MacComiche MacComick MacConachie MacConachy MacConaghy MacConche MacConchie MacConchy MacCondach MacCondachie MacCondachy MacCondie MacCondochie MacCondoquhy MacConechie MacConechy MacConiquhy MacConkey MacConnachie MacConnaghy MacConnchye MacConnechie MacConnechy MacConnichie MacConnochie MacConnoquhy MacConnquhy MacConochey MacConochie MacConoughey MacConquhie MacConquhy MacConquy MacCrom MacCron MacCrone MacCrum MacCrumb MacCrume MacCrumie MacDairmid MacDairmint MacDarmid MacDearmid MacDearmont MacDermaid MacDermand MacDerment MacDermid MacDermont MacDermot MacDermott MacDhiarmaid MacDhomhnuill MacDhonnachie MacDiarmid MacDiarmond MacDonach MacDonachie MacDonachy MacDonagh MacDonchy MacDonnach MacDonnchaidh MacDonochie MacDonough MacDonquhy MacDouagh MacGarrow MacHerlick MacHerloch MacHonichy MacIlchomich MacInechy MacIneskair MacInesker MacInisker MacInneskar MacInnesker MacKairlie MacKairly MacKarlich MacKchonchie MacKearlie MacKearly MacKerley MacKerlich MacKerliche MacKerlie MacKerloch MacKhonachy MacKinneskar MacKondachy MacKonochie MacKunuchie MacNeskar MacNesker MacOnachie MacOnachy MacOnchie MacOndochie MacOndoquhy MacOnechy MacOnochie MacOnohie MacOstrich MacOstrick MacTarmayt Makarlich Makchonachy Makconchie Makconoch Makerliche Makonoquhy Vconchie

History

The Campbells of Breadalbane are the leading family after the House of Argyll.

Sir Duncan Campbell, Knight of Lochow, 1st Lord Campbell, had a son Colin, known as ‘Black Colin of Glenorchy’, by his wife Lady Marjory Stewart. Sir Duncan gave his son Glenorchy, after throwing the MacGregors off it. Sir Colin married one of the daughters of Lord Lorn.

This union gained him a third of the Lorn estate. For his bravery during a Crusade to Palestine he became a Knight of Rhodes. In 1440 he built Kilchurn Castle for the family seat. The subsequent family were exceptional in their procurement of land and property, expanding into the lands of Finlarig, Glenlyon, and areas of Argyll and Perthshire.

Sir Colin of Glenorchy, in 1603, used foul play and aristocratic influences to bring on the proscription of the MacGregor family, clearing them off Glenstrae in front of Kilchurn.

In 1625, ‘Black Duncan’, 7th of Glenorchy, was created a baronet, and in 1681, Sir John, 11th of Glenorchy, who was described as “cunning as a fox, wise as a serpent, and slippery as an eel”, was created the 1st Earl of Breadalbane.

When William of Orange arrived in London as Sovereign in 1688, a party from Scotland went to him to offer the crown of Scotland. With Argyll administering the oath, William swore ‘to root out all heretics and enemies to the true worship of God that shall be convicted by the true Kirk of God of the aforesaid crimes, out of the lands and empire of Scotland.’

The Campbells already had the slaughter of their neighbours, the Catholic MacDonalds of Glencoe, in mind. Dalrymple of Stair persuaded King William to sign the order, while the 1st Earl of Breadalbane was given a purse of public money to buy off the other Highland chiefs, though a measure of coercion was also required. The Earl skillfully concealed from the courts his part in the slaughter, but the Breadalbane line has suffered ill luck since then.

The original family seat is a ruin and the more recent Taymouth Castle was sold off.

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