Clan Campbell

Clan Campbell
Na Caimbeulaich
Crest: On a boar's head erased fessways erased Or, armed Argent, langued Gules
Motto	Ne Obliviscaris (Latin for Forget Not)
Slogan	Cruachan! (from the mountain north of Loch Awe, overlooking the bulk of the Campbell lands in Argyll)
Profile
Region	Highland
District	Argyll
Plant badge	Bog Myrtle
Pipe music	"The Campbells Are Coming" (also known in Scottish Gaelic as "Baile Inneraora", which translates as "The Town of Inveraray")
Chief
The Most Noble Torquhil
Duke of Argyll ('MacCailein Mor')
Seat	Inveraray Castle
Historic seat	Castle Campbell
Septs of Clan Campbell Arthur, MacArtair, MacArthur, MacCarter. Bannatyne, Ballantyne, Blanton. Burnes, Burness, Burnett, Burns. Caddell, Cadell, Calder, Cattell. Connochie, Conochie, MacConachie, MacConchie, MacConnechy, MacConochie. Denoon, Denune. Gibbon, Gibson, MacGibbon, MacGubbin. Harres, Harris, Hawes, Haws, Hawson. Hastings. Isaac, Isaacs, Kissack, Kissock, MacIsaac, MacKessack, MacKessock, MacKissock. Iverson, Macever, Macgure, MacIver, MacIvor, Macure, Orr, Ure. Kellar, Keller, Maceller, MacKellar, McKerrow. Lorne. Louden, Loudon, Loudoun, Lowden, Lowdon. MacColm, MacColmbe, MacLaws, MacLehose, MacTause, MacTavish, MacThomas, Riddell, Taweson, Tawesson, Thomas, Thomason, Thompson, Thomson. MacDermid, MacDermott, MacDiarmid. MacElvie, MacKelvie. MacGlasrich. MacKerlie. MacNichol. MacNocaird. MacOran. Macowen.MacPhedran, MacPhederain, Paterson. MacPhun.Moore, Muir. Ochiltree. Pinkerton. Tanner, Tonner, Torrie, Torry.
Clan branches Campbell of Argyll (chiefs) Campbell of Strachur (senior cadets) Campbell of Breadalbane Campbell of Cawdor Campbell of Loudoun Carter-Campbell of Possil Campbell of Craignish Campbell of Auchinbreck See also: Campbell baronets
Allied clans Clan Bruce Clan Grant Clan Drummond Clan Leslie Clan Malcolm Clan Scott Clan Forbes Clan Stewart of Balquhidder Clan Menzies Clan MacInnes Clan MacEwen Clan MacCallum Clan Maclachlan Clan Buchanan Clan MacFarlane
Rival clans Clan MacDougall Clan Donald Clan Arthur Clan Lamont Clan MacGregor Clan MacLaren Clan Maclean Clan Mackinnon Clan MacAlister Clan MacLea Clan Sinclair Clan Calder Clan Macnaghten

Clan Campbell (Scottish Gaelic: Na Caimbeulaich [na ˈkʰaɪmbəl̪ˠɪç]) is a Highland Scottish clan. Historically one of the largest and most powerful of the Highland clans, their lands were in Argyll and the chief of the clan became the Earl and later Duke of Argyll.

In traditional genealogies of the Clan Campbell, its origins are placed amongst the ancient Britons of Strathclyde. However, the earliest Campbell in written records is Gillespie who is recorded in 1263. Early grants to Gillespie and his relations were almost all in east-central Scotland. However, the family's connection with Argyll came some generations before when a Campbell married the heiress of the O'Duines and she brought with her the Lordship of Loch Awe. Because of this the early clan name was Clan O'Duine and this was later supplanted by the style Clan Diarmid. This name came from a fancied connection to Diarmid the Boar, a great hero from early Celtic mythology.

The original seat of the Clan Campbell was either Innis Chonnell Castle on Loch Awe or Caisteal na Nigheann Ruaidh on Loch Avich. The clan's power soon spread throughout Argyll, however at first the Campbells were under the domination of the 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 of the subsequent chiefs of Clan Campbell have taken MacCailean Mór as their Gaelic patronymic.