CAMPBELL, Helen ²

   Another name for Helen was CAMPBELL, Ellen.²

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Helen married John MACDONALD, son of John MACDONALD of Islay, Lord of the Isles, 'Good John of Isla' and Euphemia MACRORY. (John MACDONALD was born about 1338 and died about 1369 ².)

  Marriage Notes:

"John (Macdonald), who married Ellen, daughter of Gillespic Campbell, [....] and died v.p."

from Scots Peerage (vol 5) ²

Helen next married Sir Duncan 8th Earl of Lennox April 1373 (dispensation).¹ (Sir Duncan 8th Earl of Lennox was born about 1350 ² and died on 25 May 1425 ².). The cause of his death was beheading.

  Marriage Notes:

"3. Helen Cambel, m. Duncan, son of Walter, son of Alan, (Dispensation dated April 1373). "

from The Red Book of Scotland




"John (Macdonald), who married Ellen, daughter of Gillespic Campbell, afterwards wife of Duncan, Earl of Lennox, and died v.p. Their son Angus is mentioned as a hostage in the bond of submission given by the Lord of the Isles to David u. in 1369. There is no trace of any issue of Angus." (page 39)

"Earl Duncan married, sometime before 30 March 1373, Ellen or Helen Campbell, daughter of Archibald or Gillespie Campbell of Lochawe. She was the widow of ' John of the Isles,' apparently the eldest son of John, first Lord of the Isles, by his first marriage with Amie, daughter of Ruari of Bute. John of the Isles died about 1369, leaving a son Angus, who died a youth. Between 1369 and 1373 his widow married Duncan, then styled son of Walter Macallan of Foslane. Her first marriage is referred to in a dispensation for which they applied on the ground that although they knew that John of the Isles, Helen's first husband, and Duncan were related in the third and fourth degrees of affinity, yet to pacify serious feuds and prevent murder and bloodshed among their kinsmen and friends, they had contracted marriage 'per verba de futuro,' and had issue, thus incurring the penalty of excommunication from which they petition to be relieved, and their marriage sanctioned. Earl Duncan's wife survived him, and was alive in 1434, but died before 1447. They had issue" (pages 340-341)

from Scots Peerage (vol 5)



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