Post by Queen Beathag Aberdeen on Sept 16, 2010 0:26:34 GMT -6
Clan Campbell
(Main: Loch Awe)
(Sept-Drynoch)
(Add'tl Information)
Origin of the name: Cam Beul (Gaelic for "Crooked mouth") (Surname)
Other Gaelic names: Cambeulach (Singular) &O Duibne (Collective)
Motto I:(Main House)[/i] Ne Obliviscaris (Latin for "Forget Not")
Motto II (Sept Drynoch): Animus Humilitas Deus exsisto Macies (Latin for "Bravery, Humility, God be Thine)
Slogan: "Cruachan!"
Pipe music: "Baile Inneraora" (The Campbells Are Coming)
Plant badge: Bog Myrtle
Chieftain(s):Neil Campbell, The Black Campbell of Loch Awe (allegiance/respect paid to main house),Kendrew Laran Campbell III (sept of Drynoch)
Dominant Current Household: Loch Awe, Near Argyll. Drynoch, Isle of Skye
Main Branches: Loch Awe (Argyll), Breadalbane, Cawdor, Loudoun, Possil, Strachur
*Tartan: Forthcoming
*Crest: Forthcoming
i. Drynoch Crest same as principle household w/ motto change (boar + sept motto), Drynoch has often been called to use main house/universal crest
The Campbells are an ancient family with many sept houses and affiliatiations around Scotland. The first recorded Campbell comes from the 13th century The name begins to be established in Argyll at the end of the 13th century, as followers of the Earl of Lennox, with Campbells owning some lands in Kintyre and the Cailean Mór (Great Colin) and established at Loch Awe. Cailean Mór's oldest brother established himself at Strachur forming the oldest branch of Clan Campbell, the Campbells of Strachur. They are a family who in the current period is growing in power to become one of the most influential of the Gaelic speaking Scotland, able to wield influence across the Hebrides and Western Scotland.
The Campbells were supporters of the households of Bruce and Stewart, alligning them with the royalty and placing them in a position of favoritism. Dominant faces at the Battle of Bannockburn and the Scottish war for Independence. This was rewarded with land expansions, and through marriage with the Bruce's sister, Lady Mary. Their association with Bruce and Steward ties them effectively to the lineage of Scottish Kings.
In the present day,the Campbells, while no less powerful, have surrendered Inveryne back to its rightful holders, the Lamonts and have settled in Loch Awe. Doubtless, the Lamont rule of Argyll and the Campbells evident presence there makes some nerves raw. With the death of Robert Bruce and the line of rule shifting to the Guardian of Scotland, Lord Adam Aberdeen, doubtless alliegance followed swift when the King put his trust therein along with the Papacy. The Campbells of Loch Awe have made fine showings at the Dumfrieshire Rebellion against England, oddly fighting alongside their enemey Lamont, sent large numbers for the Mo'r Triath's English campagain, and were one of the first alleged mainland families to help secure the Isle of Skye from permanent English presence.
Kendrew Laran Campbell the III was so distanced from his kin that resided in Dumfrieshire in the English speaking Lowlands a great majority of his life, save for campaigns and times of service. His English is on bar none, and is one of the few clansmen who can be clearly understood by a foreigner, with more Scotts peppering his language for years and little native Gaelic until his later years. Like his father and grandfather before him, he became a pikeman in service to the King's armies, rising to become a knight. Following in an unknown tradition of esteem and favoritism, it was merely his course that differed from his namesakes until the Battle of Dumfrieshire placed him in the direct sights of The Black Campbell.
His predacessors having been a favored servitor of the main family, Neil became aware of Kendrew's existence with his name attached as a man knighted by the Bruce himself at Bannockburn, and more currently the Aberdeen family as a friend of Adam and guardian of his wife Beathag. His radical denouncing of his King in favor of the Skye Lord raised brow, and once free of prison he went downward to the South, stirring up trouble for the English as he went along. For his deeds at Dumfrieshire and saving of several Campbells, including Neil, he was elected as Neil's tanist, given the right to wear the chieftain's pin, and given a place at Loch Awe.
What happened after was part accident and some purpose.
With the fall and subsequent Death of the King, Campbell alleigance shifted to the Aberdeens as the high authority. Neil was not as hard pressed to be there entirely as Kendrew, for Kendrew had no desire to further his 'Lord's' desires as time went by. His only Lord was God first, the Aberdeens after. His loyalty was for Skye. He had no room for enemies and alliances of old, and was one of the key players in what Neil considered a regretable quiet with the Lamonts. In fact many shared Kendrew's opinion, and what Neil calls a sept house of immigrants behind a tight smile, many are calling the newest and perhaps strongest of the main campbell branches comprised of many of the old Campbells of Argyll itself, with the backbone of Loch Awe.
Kendrew is a local favorite. Renowned not only for his service to the old King, The Mo'r Triath and Mo'r Oukselo, and war service, he is a pleasent, good natured man who is generally quiet with an ire no one really desires to raise. He has made no real enemies among his neighbors, and the whispered enemies he has still have no purchase to touch his family and now it seems, clan. While no lover of what he calls 'old enobled stupidity', he recognizes and accepts his duty to those that placed their lot in Skye's hands, and has a tense relationship with Neil.
(Main: Loch Awe)
(Sept-Drynoch)
(Add'tl Information)
Origin of the name: Cam Beul (Gaelic for "Crooked mouth") (Surname)
Other Gaelic names: Cambeulach (Singular) &O Duibne (Collective)
Motto I:(Main House)[/i] Ne Obliviscaris (Latin for "Forget Not")
Motto II (Sept Drynoch): Animus Humilitas Deus exsisto Macies (Latin for "Bravery, Humility, God be Thine)
Slogan: "Cruachan!"
Pipe music: "Baile Inneraora" (The Campbells Are Coming)
Plant badge: Bog Myrtle
Chieftain(s):Neil Campbell, The Black Campbell of Loch Awe (allegiance/respect paid to main house),Kendrew Laran Campbell III (sept of Drynoch)
Dominant Current Household
Main Branches: Loch Awe (Argyll), Breadalbane, Cawdor, Loudoun, Possil, Strachur
*Tartan: Forthcoming
*Crest: Forthcoming
i. Drynoch Crest same as principle household w/ motto change (boar + sept motto), Drynoch has often been called to use main house/universal crest
The Campbells are an ancient family with many sept houses and affiliatiations around Scotland. The first recorded Campbell comes from the 13th century The name begins to be established in Argyll at the end of the 13th century, as followers of the Earl of Lennox, with Campbells owning some lands in Kintyre and the Cailean Mór (Great Colin) and established at Loch Awe. Cailean Mór's oldest brother established himself at Strachur forming the oldest branch of Clan Campbell, the Campbells of Strachur. They are a family who in the current period is growing in power to become one of the most influential of the Gaelic speaking Scotland, able to wield influence across the Hebrides and Western Scotland.
The Campbells were supporters of the households of Bruce and Stewart, alligning them with the royalty and placing them in a position of favoritism. Dominant faces at the Battle of Bannockburn and the Scottish war for Independence. This was rewarded with land expansions, and through marriage with the Bruce's sister, Lady Mary. Their association with Bruce and Steward ties them effectively to the lineage of Scottish Kings.
In the present day,the Campbells, while no less powerful, have surrendered Inveryne back to its rightful holders, the Lamonts and have settled in Loch Awe. Doubtless, the Lamont rule of Argyll and the Campbells evident presence there makes some nerves raw. With the death of Robert Bruce and the line of rule shifting to the Guardian of Scotland, Lord Adam Aberdeen, doubtless alliegance followed swift when the King put his trust therein along with the Papacy. The Campbells of Loch Awe have made fine showings at the Dumfrieshire Rebellion against England, oddly fighting alongside their enemey Lamont, sent large numbers for the Mo'r Triath's English campagain, and were one of the first alleged mainland families to help secure the Isle of Skye from permanent English presence.
Kendrew Laran Campbell the III was so distanced from his kin that resided in Dumfrieshire in the English speaking Lowlands a great majority of his life, save for campaigns and times of service. His English is on bar none, and is one of the few clansmen who can be clearly understood by a foreigner, with more Scotts peppering his language for years and little native Gaelic until his later years. Like his father and grandfather before him, he became a pikeman in service to the King's armies, rising to become a knight. Following in an unknown tradition of esteem and favoritism, it was merely his course that differed from his namesakes until the Battle of Dumfrieshire placed him in the direct sights of The Black Campbell.
His predacessors having been a favored servitor of the main family, Neil became aware of Kendrew's existence with his name attached as a man knighted by the Bruce himself at Bannockburn, and more currently the Aberdeen family as a friend of Adam and guardian of his wife Beathag. His radical denouncing of his King in favor of the Skye Lord raised brow, and once free of prison he went downward to the South, stirring up trouble for the English as he went along. For his deeds at Dumfrieshire and saving of several Campbells, including Neil, he was elected as Neil's tanist, given the right to wear the chieftain's pin, and given a place at Loch Awe.
What happened after was part accident and some purpose.
With the fall and subsequent Death of the King, Campbell alleigance shifted to the Aberdeens as the high authority. Neil was not as hard pressed to be there entirely as Kendrew, for Kendrew had no desire to further his 'Lord's' desires as time went by. His only Lord was God first, the Aberdeens after. His loyalty was for Skye. He had no room for enemies and alliances of old, and was one of the key players in what Neil considered a regretable quiet with the Lamonts. In fact many shared Kendrew's opinion, and what Neil calls a sept house of immigrants behind a tight smile, many are calling the newest and perhaps strongest of the main campbell branches comprised of many of the old Campbells of Argyll itself, with the backbone of Loch Awe.
Kendrew is a local favorite. Renowned not only for his service to the old King, The Mo'r Triath and Mo'r Oukselo, and war service, he is a pleasent, good natured man who is generally quiet with an ire no one really desires to raise. He has made no real enemies among his neighbors, and the whispered enemies he has still have no purchase to touch his family and now it seems, clan. While no lover of what he calls 'old enobled stupidity', he recognizes and accepts his duty to those that placed their lot in Skye's hands, and has a tense relationship with Neil.