Clan Colquhoun

The territory of the Colquhouns is in Dumbartonshire and the principle family of the name was Colquhoun of Colquhoun and Luss. One tradition deduces the descent of the first possessor from a younger son of the old Earls of Lennox, because of the similarity of their armorial bearings. It is certain that they were anciently vassals of that potent house.

The immediate ancestor of the family of Luss was Humphry de Kilpatrick, who in the reign of Alexander II., not later than 1246, obtained from Malcolm, Earl of Lennox, a grant of the lands and barony of Colquhoun, in the parish of Old or West Kilpatrick, pro servitio unius militis, &c., and in consequence assumed the name of Colquhoun, instead of his own. His grandson, Ingelram, third Colquhoun, lived in the reign of Alexander III.

His son, Humphry de Colquhoun, is witness in a charter of Malcolm, fifth Earl of Lennox, in favour of Sir John de Luss, between the years 1292-1333. Sir Robert de Colquhoun, supposed by Mr Fraser, the family historian, to be fifth in descent from the first Humphry, and son of a Humphry, the fourth of Colquhoun, in the reign of David Bruce, married in or previous to the year 1368 the daughter and sole heiress (known in the family tradition as "The Fair Maid of Luss") of Godfry de Luss, lord of Luss, head or chief of an ancient family of that name, and the sixth in a direct male line from Malduin, dean of Lennox, who, in the beginning of the thirteenth century, received from Alwyn, second Earl of Lennox, a charter of the lands of Luss. ... more

Sir John Colquhoun was appointed governor of the castle of Dumbarton, by King James I, for his fidelity to that king during his imprisonment in England

• A1 ~ Humphry de Kilpatrick, lvd:1246;
  • B1 ~ N Colquhoun;
    • C1 .. Patrick Colquhoun of Glens;
      • D1 .. Patrick Colquhoun of Glens, m. Margaret Hamilton;
        • E1 .. Patrick Colquhoun of Barrowfield;
          • F1 .. George Colquhoun of Glens, m. Margaret Boyd;  ==>  Clan Boyd
            • G1 .. Margaret Colquhoun, d:1601, m. Robert Boyd;  <==  Clan Boyd
    • C2 ~ Ingelram de Colquhoun, 1st of Kilmarnock;
      • D1 ~ Humphry de Colquhoun;
        • E1 ~ Sir Robert de Colquhoun, lvd:1368, m. "The Fair Maid of Luss";
          • F1 ~ Sir Humphry Colquhoun of Luss, lvd:1390;
            • G1 ~ Sir John Colquhoun, Governor of Dumbarton Castle, d:1439;
              • H1 ~ Malcolm Colquhoun;
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      • I1 ~ Sir John Colquhoun, Sheriff of Dumbarton, d:1439, m. N. Boyd;
        • H1 ~ Margaret Colquhoun, m. Sir David Murray;  <==  Clan Murray
        • H2 .. Humphry Colquhoun, d:1493, m. Jean Erskine;
          • I1 .. Sir John Colquhoun of Luss, d:1536, m. Margaret Stewart;
            • J1 .. Humphrey Colquhoun of Luss, d:1538, m. Katherine Graham;
              • K1 .. Sir John Colquhoun of Luss, d:1575, m. Agnes Boyd;
                • L1 .. Alexander Colquhoun of Luss, d:1617, m. Helen Buchanan;  ==>  Clan Buchanan
                  • M1 .. Jean Colquhoun, m. Sir Duncun Campbell;  <==  Clan Campbell