Sir Robert de Colquhoun of Luss, 5th of Colquhoun & 7th of Luss

_____, Lady Of Luss

Death: Dumbarton, , , Scotland

Gender: Female

Parents:

Father: Luss, Geofrey 6th of

Family:

Marriage: ABT 1340 Luss, , , Scotland

Spouse: Luss, Sir_Robert_De_Colquhoun_V_& VII of

Birth: ABT 1310 Dumbarton, , , Scotland

Death: ABT 1390 Dumbarton, , , Scotland

Gender: Male

Parents:

Father: KT, Sir_Humphry_De Colquhoun IV,

Children:

Lus, Sir_Humphry_Colquhoun_VI_& VIII of

Colquhoun, Robert

Birth: AFT 1345 Dumbarton, , , Scotland

Gender: Male

Married the Heiress of Humphry de Luss about the middle of the 14th Century in 1340, thereby joining the two families and th us becoming the 5th of Colquhoun and the 7th of Luss. She was the daughter an d heiress of Godfridus, 6th Laird of Luss.

As Robert de Colquhoun, he witnessed a grant of Auchmarr to Walter Buchanan in 1373, in the reign of David II. Sir Robert was dead in 1391 when his lands of Meikle Sauchy were in the hands of the King, the heir not having up to that time obtained

infeftment.

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 dau ghter 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 L ennox, a charter of the lands of Luss. The Luss territories lie in the mountain ous but beautiful and picturesque district on the margin of Loch Lommond, Sir R obert was designed "dominus de Colquhoun and de Luss," in a charter dated in 1368; since which time the family have borne the designation of Colquhoun of Colq uhoun and Luss.

Notes ◦BP1934 (Colquhoun) reports that Umfridus de Kilpatrick obtained the lands of Culchone or Colquhoun in the time of King Alexander II (1214-1249). BLG1888 (Campbell-Colquhoun of Killermont) reports that the Sir Robert we start with was the 5th laird of Colquhoun.

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, The Luss territories lie in the mountainous but beautiful and picturesque district on the margin of Loch Lommond, Sir Robert was designed "dominus de Colquhoun and de Luss," in a charter dated in 1368; since which time the family have borne the designation of Colquhoun of Colquhoun and Luss.

He is also witness in a charter of the lands of Auchmar by Walter of Faslane, Lord of Lennox, to Walter de Buchanan in 1373. He had four sons, namely - Sir Humphry, his heir; Robert, first of the family of Camstraddan, from whom several other families of the name of Colquhoun in Dumbartonshire are descended; Robert mentioned in the Camstradden charter as "frater junior"; and Patrick who is mentioned in a charter from his brother Sir Humphry to his other brother Robert.

About 1368, Sir Robert Colquhoun of that Ilk married the heiress of Luss and the clan have since that time been known as "of Luss". Sir Robert supported Bruce and fought at Bannockburn. The seat of the clan remains to this day, Rossdhu House, in Luss, on the West Shore of Loch Lomond.

Sources 1.[S474] Colquoun_Cunningham.ged, Jamie Vans.

2.[S73] Burke's Landed Gentry of Great Britain 2001, Peter Beauclerk Dewar,, (2001.).

3.[S490] Hamilton Adams & Co, London, (Hamilton Adams & Co, London).

4.[S3] House of Lennox, Chevalier Terrance Gach MacFarlane, p1 (Reliability: 3).