Editing Clan Campbell (section)

===16th century and clan conflicts===
<!-- Deleted image removed: [[File:Clan Campbell clan map.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Scottish clan map showing the main part of the Clan Campbell territory coloured in yellow that was held by the Campbells of Argyll, who were the clan chiefs and who are seated at Inveraray Castle. Also shown in black text but still within the yellow area of Campbell territory are the names of several other smaller clans whose lands were at some point were taken over by the acquisitive Campbells. These are from left to right: [[Clan MacMillan|MacMillan]], [[Clan MacTavish|MacTavish]], [[Clan MacIver|MacIver]], [[Clan Malcolm|Malcolm]], [[Clan Ewen of Otter|MacEwen]], [[Clan MacIntyre|MacIntyre]], [[Clan Arthur|MacArthur]], [[Clan Fletcher|Fletcher]], [[Clan Gregor|MacGregor]] and [[Clan Macnaghten|McNaughton]]. Some of these smaller clans became [[sept]]s of Clan Campbell, but others, such as the MacGregors and MacNaughtons, had other separate territories that they still held in their own right and are also shown on the map.]] -->
In 1513, the 2nd Earl of Argyll was killed along with many of his clan at the [[Battle of Flodden]].<ref name="Timeline">{{cite web |url=http://www.inveraray-castle.com/clan-campbell-timeline.html |title=Clan Campbell Timeline |website=inveraray-castle.com |access-date=24 May 2014 |archive-date=10 March 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110310163224/http://www.inveraray-castle.com/clan-campbell-timeline.html |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Guthrie |first=William |author-link=William Guthrie (historian) |year=1767 |title=A General History of Scotland |url=https://archive.org/details/ageneralhistory14guthgoog/page/n6/mode/2up |volume=4 |location=[[Paternoster Row]], London |publisher=A. Hamilton, Robinson and Roberts |pages=[https://archive.org/details/ageneralhistory14guthgoog/page/n366/mode/2up 371]-372 |access-date=May 7, 2023}}</ref>

The [[Battle of Langside]] took place in 1568 where the chief of Clan Campbell, [[Archibald Campbell, 5th Earl of Argyll]], commanded the forces who fought for [[Mary, Queen of Scots]].<ref name="Timeline"/>

In 1567, a conflict took place between the Clan Campbell and [[Clan Arthur]]. Duncan MacArthur and his son of the Loch Awe MacArthur family, became the victims of their own success when jealousy of their power drove neighbours to drown them in Loch Awe during a skirmish with the Clan Campbell. In the archives of [[Inveraray Castle]] a charter dated 1567 confirms that a pardon was granted to the Campbells of Inverawe for what became known as the "drowning of Clan Arthur".<ref>{{cite book |last=Moncreiffe |first=Iain |author-link=Iain Moncreiffe |year=1982 |title=The Highland Clans: The Dynastic Origins, Chiefs and Background of The Clans And Some Other Families Connected With Highland History |url=https://archive.org/details/highlandclansdyn0000monc_c2w4/page/n7/mode/2up |location=London, Melbourne, Sydney, Auckland, Johannesburg |publisher=[[Barrie and Jenkins]] |page=[https://archive.org/details/highlandclansdyn0000monc_c2w4/page/122/mode/2up 122] |isbn=9780091447403 |access-date=June 16, 2022}}</ref> It is believed that the MacArthurs trying to defend themselves were driven into the loch. Centuries later in the 1970s an ancient sword was unearthed on the shore of the loch.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.clanarthur.com/history2.htm |title=MacArthurs of Tirevadich |publisher=Clanarthur.com |access-date=2012-04-01}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.rampantscotland.com/clans/blclanmacarthur.htm |title=History of the MacArthur Clan |publisher=Rampantscotland.com |access-date=2012-04-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304111428/http://www.rampantscotland.com/clans/blclanmacarthur.htm |archive-date=4 March 2016 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

For two centuries from the mid-15th century the [[Clan Gordon]] and Clan Campbell controlled the north-east and west of Scotland respectively, as the [[magnate]]s who straddled the divide between the [[Scottish Highlands]] and [[Scottish Lowlands]].<ref name="Oxford">{{cite book |editor-last=Lynch |editor-first=Michael |editor-link=Michael Lynch (historian) |year=2011 |title=Oxford Companion to Scottish History |page=273 |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |isbn=978-0-19-923482-0}}</ref> In 1594, [[Archibald Campbell, 7th Earl of Argyll]] was granted a Royal Commission against [[George Gordon, 6th Earl of Huntly]] but was defeated at the [[Battle of Glenlivet]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Campbell |first=Alistair of Airds |year=2002 |title=A History of Clan Campbell: From Flodden to the Restoration |publisher=[[Edinburgh University Press]] |pages=113–117}}</ref>