CAMPBELL, John 3rd of Cawdor (Calder) 1 2 3 4
- Born: About 1543
- Marriage (1): Unknown
- Marriage (2): KEITH, Mary 5 June 1575(contract) 1 2
- Marriage (3): LAUDER, Jane 3
- Died: February 1591(1592) 5
Cause of his death was murder by a shot from a hackbut.5
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John married.
John next married Mary KEITH, daughter of William KEITH 3rd Earl Marischal and Margaret KEITH co-heiress of Inverugie, 5 June 1575(contract).1 2 (Mary KEITH was born about 1541.)
Marriage Notes:
"Mary (Keith), married (contract 5 June 1575) to John Campbell of Calder, for which a dispensation was required on the ground of consanguinity."
from Scots Peerage (vol 6) 2
John next married Jane LAUDER.3 (Jane LAUDER was born about 1548.)
Marriage Notes:
"He (John Lindsay) married, secondly, Jane Lauder, relict of Sir James Forrester of Corstorphine and of John Campbell of Cawdor ...."
from Scots Peerage (vol 1)
"1602: John Campbell, Thane of Cawdor's next brother, Colin, granted a discharge of a contract
provision and in it identified himself as 'second of the House of Cawdor' (Colin was of age by
1602). A reference was made to their 'mother, Dame Jean Lawder, Lady Corstorphine, relict of
deceased Sir John Campbell of Cawdor.' She was a daughter of Lawder of Halton in Lothian and
married (1) John Campbell of Cawdor and (2) James Forester of Corstorphine, (3) Robert Gray
of Cranislie in Angus. In 1603, she sold her liferent to her son John Campbell, Thane of Cawdor."
from The Book of the Thanes of Cawdor
Note:
Jane or Jean Lauder was stepmother to the Campbell sons mentioned above. She had four husbands in all, including John Lindsay, Lord Menmuir, and not quite in the order outlined above. 3 5
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