Colquhoun, Baron of Luss Sir John 1a

Birth Name Colquhoun, Baron of Luss Sir John
Gender male
Age at Death about 80 years, 4 months

Narrative

Sir John Colquhoun of Luss; granted 1457 a charter incorporating his lands into the territorial Barony of Luss, another of Forestry of Rossdhu and Glenmuckerne 1458 and one of Kilmardinny 1465; Sheriff of Dumbarton, Comptroller of Royal Household1464-66, Keeper of Dumbarton Castle 1477; envoy 1474 to negotiate a marriage between the Scottish heir apparent and Cecilia , daughter of Edward IV. [Burke's Peerage]

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Sir John Colquhoun was one of the most distinguished men of his age in Scotland, and highly esteemed by King James III, from whom he got a charter in 1457 of the lands of Luss, Colquhoun ,and Garscube, in Dumbartonshire, and of the lands of Glyn and Sauchie, in Stirlingshire, in corporating the whole into a freebarony, to be called the Barony of Luss; and in the following year he obtained from the king a charter erecting into a free forest the lands of Rossdhu and Glenmachome. From 1465 to 1469 he held the high office of comptroller of the Exchequer, and was subsequently appointed sheriff principle of Dumbartonshire. In 1645 he got a grant of the lands of Kilmardinny, and in 1473 and in 1474, of Roseneath, Strone, &c. In 1474 he was appointed lord high chamberlain of Scotland, and immediately thereafterwas nominated one of the ambassadors extraordinary to the Courtof England, to negotiate a marriage between the Prince Royal of Scotland and the Princess Cicily, daughter of King Edward IV. By a roya l charter dated 17th September 1477, he was constituted governor of the castle of Dumbarton for life. He was killed by a cannon-ball at the seige of Dumbarton Castle, probably in 1478. By his wife, daughter of Thomas, Lord Boyd, he had two sons and one daughter. His second son , Robert, was bred to the church, and was first rector of Argyle from 1473 to 1499. The daughter, Margaret, married Sir William Murray, seventh baron of Tullibardine (ancestor of the Dukes of Athole), and bore to him seventeen sons.

 

Events

Event Date Place Description Sources
Birth about 1398 Luss, Loch Lomond, Dumbartonshire, Scotland   2
Death 1478-05-01 Dumbarton Castle, Dumbartonshire, Scotland   2

Age: 80y

Parents

Relation to main person Name Birth date Death date Relation within this family (if not by birth)
Father Colquhoun, Malcolmabout 1371
Mother
    Sister     Colquhoun, Maria about 1394
         Colquhoun, Baron of Luss Sir John about 1398 1478-05-01

Pedigree

  1. Colquhoun, Malcolm
      1. Colquhoun, Maria
      2. Colquhoun, Baron of Luss Sir John

Source References

  1. Michael Neuman: http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=clcaldwell&id=I28073 Caldwell and related families
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        ID: I28073
        Name: Mary MacDougall 1
        Sex: F
        Birth: ABT 1249 in Lorn, Argyllshire, Scotland 1
        Death: 10 OCT 1303 in Dunblane, Stirlingshire, Scotland 1
        Birth: ABT 1249 in Lorne, Scotland 1

         

         

        Father: Laird of Lorn Eoghan MacDougall b: ABT 1225 in Lorn, Argyllshire, Scotland

        Marriage 1 Sir Hugh de Abernethy b: ABT 1240 in Abernethy, Perthshire, Scotland
        Children
        Has Children Sir Alexander de Abernethy b: ABT 1270 in Abernethy, Perthshire, Scotland

        Sources:
        Title: mary de abernethy.ged
        Note:
        Source Medium: Other

        Text: Date of Import: 9 Jul 2005

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        e-mail: michaelneuman@earthlink.net

  2. john drummond.ged