Editing Clan Campbell (section)

===Origins===

In traditional genealogies of Clan Campbell, the clan's origins are in the ancient [[Britons (Celtic people)|Britons]] of [[Strathclyde]].<ref name="Clan.Encyclopedia.Campbell">{{cite book |last1=Way |first1=George of Plean |last2=Squire |first2=Romilly of Rubislaw |author-link2=Romilly Squire of Rubislaw |author-link1=George Way of Plean |year=1994 |title=Collins Scottish Clan & Family Encyclopedia |location=[[Glasgow]] |publisher=[[HarperCollins]] (for the [[Standing Council of Scottish Chiefs]]) |isbn=0-00-470547-5 |pages=90–92}}</ref> The earliest Campbell in written record is [[Gilleasbaig of Menstrie|Gillespie]], whose name is recorded in 1263.<ref name="Clan.Encyclopedia.Campbell" /> Early grants to Gillespie and his relations were almost all in east-central [[Scotland]]. The family's connection with [[Argyll]] came some generations earlier when a Campbell married the heiress of the O'Duines and she brought with her the Lordship of [[Loch Awe]].<ref name="Clan.Encyclopedia.Campbell"/> Because of this, the early clan name was ''Clan O'Duine''. The name was later styled ''Clann Diarmaid'' based on a fancied connection to ''Diarmuid the Boar'', a great hero from early [[Celtic mythology]].<ref name="Clan.Encyclopedia.Campbell"/>

The original seat of Clan Campbell was either [[Innes Chonnel Castle]] on Loch Awe or Caisteal na Nigheann Ruaidh on [[Loch Avich]]. The clan's power soon spread throughout Argyll, though at first the Campbells were under the domination of the [[Lord of Lorne|Lords of Lorne]], chiefs of [[Clan MacDougall]]. The MacDougalls killed the Campbell chief [[Cailean Mór]] (Colin Campbell) in 1296. (See: [[Battle of Red Ford]].) All subsequent chiefs of Clan Campbell have taken ''MacCailean Mór'' as their [[Scottish Gaelic|Gaelic]] patronymic.<ref name="Clan.Encyclopedia.Campbell"/>

Between 1200 and 1500, the Campbells emerged as one of the most powerful families in Scotland, dominant in [[Argyll]] and capable of wielding a wider influence and authority from [[Edinburgh]] to the [[Hebrides]] and western Highlands.<ref name="OxfordScottishCampbell">{{cite book |editor-last=Lynch |editor-first=Michael |editor-link=Michael Lynch (historian) |year=2011 |title=Oxford Companion to Scottish History |pages=64–66 |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |isbn=978-0-19-923482-0}}</ref>