. More famous homes of Great Britain and their stories . apital of Argyllshire may be said to owe its being tothe House of Lochow. Before the land knew the nameof Campbell, a few huts there may have been at theArays mouth, to leeward of the point where now the Lord of theIsles touches daily in summer; but all the importance of theplace is due to those chiefs, of the race of Diarmaid, who havebeen successively known as MacCailean (not MacCallum) Mhorsince the great Colin was knighted by Alexander 111., knight died fighting against Macdougal of Lome, 1204 ; andhis son Nigel, for prowess
. More famous homes of Great Britain and their stories . apital of Argyllshire may be said to owe its being tothe House of Lochow. Before the land knew the nameof Campbell, a few huts there may have been at theArays mouth, to leeward of the point where now the Lord of theIsles touches daily in summer; but all the importance of theplace is due to those chiefs, of the race of Diarmaid, who havebeen successively known as MacCailean (not MacCallum) Mhorsince the great Colin was knighted by Alexander 111., knight died fighting against Macdougal of Lome, 1204 ; andhis son Nigel, for prowess at Bannockburn, was given LadyMary, sister of Robert Bruce, to wife. But there were great men before Agamemnon ; and the clan 309 iIO Inveraray is said to go back to Archibald Cambel, who acquired the lord-ship of Lochawe by marriage (1067) with Eva, daughter and co-heiress of Paul Oduin, purse-bearer to Malcolm 111. Thus thecradle of the family was on Lochawe-side ; where the MacArthurstrain held the chiefship till the MacCailean branch began to take. A STREET IN INVERARAY the lead, and moved over to Inveraray early in the fifteenth cent-ury. Duncan Campbell of Lochow, who first built at Inveraray,married the daughter of the Duke of Albany, Regent of Scotland,who had been supposed not to be keen to get James I. back fromhis eighteen years captivity at Windsor. She was the grand-daughter of Robert II., and at Kilmun — a church, endowed byDuncan, of which the Burial chapel still exists off the old chancel— there is a contemporary recumbent figure of this lady. Herhusband is also there, in hard sandstone, represented in platearmour. After this, by serving the Crown, against rebels, in the variousparts of Argyll, Lome, Kintyre, and the Western Islands, theCampbells of Inveraray became possessed of lands in these
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