CAMPBELL, John 1st Earl of Loudoun, 5th of Lawers, Chancellor of Scotland, Sir 1 2
- Born: About 1598
- Marriage (1): CAMPBELL, Margaret Baroness of Loudoun in 1620 1
- Died: 15 March 1663, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland 1
- Buried: 1663, Loudoun Kirk, Ayrshire, Scotland 1
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John married Margaret CAMPBELL Baroness of Loudoun, daughter of George CAMPBELL Master of Loudoun and Jean FLEMING, in 1620.1 (Margaret CAMPBELL Baroness of Loudoun was born about 1605 1.)
Marriage Notes:
"Sir John Campbell of Lawers, eldest son, born in 1598, educated both at home and abroad, was knighted by King James VI., and in 1620 married Margaret, Baroness of Loudoun in her own right. They had a charter of the lands of Sorn, in Ayrshire, on 8 March 1620, and of the lands of Hudstoun and others in the barony of Loudoun 26 July 1620. He succeeded his father-in-law as Lord Loudoun, in terms of the resignation, in December 1622, and as Lord Loudoun he had a charter of the lands of Kylesmuir 4 September 1630, and again to him and his wife on 15 March 1634. He was created Earl of Loudoun, Lord Terrinyean and Machline, by patent, dated at Theobald's 12 May 1633, with destination to him and his heirs-male, but he joining in opposition to the Court, the patent was by a special order stopped at the Chancery, and the titles superseded till 1641."
from Scots Peerage (vol 5) 1
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