Robert Cameron (abt. 1230 - 1296)

Born about 1230 in Perthshire, Scotland

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Died 1296 at about age 66 in Perthshire, Scotland

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Biography

Robert Cameron is a member of Clan Cameron.

Born about 1240 Robert was the eldest son and heir of Sir John Cambrun of Baledgarno. The family seat was the red castle of Baledgarno in the former parish of Rossie near Inshture in the Carse of Gowrie. ^[1]

Robert was knighted,

Sir Robert Cambrun married and had a son:

• john his heir.

Robert inherited the title of Baledgarno on the death of his father about 1272. He as Sir Robert of Baledgarno and his brother-in-law, Sir Alexander of Inchmartine, witnessed a charter of David the brother to the deceased John of Inchyra.^[2]

When an agreement was made in 1279 between the abbot and convent of Dunfermline and John of Inchmartine, Robert Cambrun of Baledgarno was present and attached his seal. ^[3] John Inchmartine was his nephew.

The bishops of St Andrews and Glasgow, Duncan, earl of Fife, Alexander Comyn of Buchan, constable and justiciar of Scotia, John Comyn and James Stewart of Scotland, Guardians of the realm of Scotland by common council, wrote on 25 September 1286 to Henry, abbot of Arbroath, Robert Cameron of Baledgarno, David de Betun, knights, and Master Ralph of Dundee, noting that they have established to them all, by inquiry of faithful men of the kingdom that a certain pasture pertains to the land of Scrine, which is called Salmonsmuir, in the tenement of Panmure, as it was on the day which their lord, King Alexander, died. They commanded that all the men of the realm to answer to the abbot, Robert, David and Master Ralph, or two of them, during the month of the feast of St Michael next.^[4]

At Scone, in 1290 Robert Cambrun accompanied Nicholas de Haya of Errol and the Abbots of Coupar, Arbroath and Scone in auditing the 1289 accounts for the Lord Chamberlain.^[5]

About 1290 he witnessed a Charter by David de Inchesyreth, brother of the deceased John de Inchesyreth, quitclaiming to Sir Nicholas de Haya lord of Errol all right in the tenement of Rossyclerache,^[6]

On 14 March 1290, Robert was at Brigham in the Scottish Borders as one of the Scottish grantors to the Confirmation of the Treaty of Salisbury.^[7]

Robert Cambrun and his brother-in- law John of Inchmartine were among the many Scottish nobles who addressed the letter to King Edward on 17 March 1290 /91 requesting him to certify to the Guardians that a papal dispensation had been granted for marriage between Prince Edward and Lady Margaret (The Maid of Norway). ^[8][9]

In the selection of heir to throne of Scotland in 1292 Sir Robert Cambrun of Baledgarno was a supporter of John Baliol. ^[10]

The English invasion had caused considerable damage and among those affected were the friars at the House of Coldstream. On 28 March 1296, the Council agreed that Sir Robert Cambrun as Sheriff of Atholl should send 700 sheep and 40 oxen to them. ^[11][12]

On 22 June 1296, at Perth, Robert Cambrun lord of Baledgarno, renounced any alliances between John, king of Scots, and Philip, king of the French, against the king of England, and performed fealty to the king of England.^[13] Two months later on 28 Aug. 1296, Robert Cambrun of Baledgarno along with Henry de Mandeville and many other Scottish barons did homage and performed fealty to Edward I, King of England. ^[14]

Robert Cameron (Cambrun) received from King William the Lyon (1165-1214) a grant for the lands of Ballegarno in the Carse of Gowrie.^[15]

Research Notes

• Until a source is found which proves that the de Cambruns of Ballegarno were in any way related to the Camerons of Lochiel (who appeared much later in the mid-fifteenth century) the clan succession box has been removed from this profile. The Red Book of Scotland does not acknowledge any such relationship.^[16]

Sources

1. ↑ The Gaelic names means the farm toun of Edgar. King Edgar of Scotland held the castle and died probably nearby at Dundee on 8 Jan 1107.
2. ↑ NRS RH1/6/19
3. ↑ Registrum de Dunfermelyn. Liber cartarum Abbatie Benedictine S.S. Trinitatis et B. Margarete Regine de Dunfermelyn, no. 227
4. ↑ Liber S. Thome de Aberbrothoc. Registrorum Abbacie de Aberbrothoc. Pars prior. Vol.1 Appendix Charter VII
5. ↑ The accounts of the great chamberlains of Scotland Vol.i p.*77
6. ↑ NRS RH1/6/19
7. ↑ The Records of the Parliaments of Scotland to 1707 (RPS) 1290/3/1
8. ↑ The Records of the Parliaments of Scotland to 1707 (RPS) 1290/3/2
9. ↑ Palgrave; Documents and records illustrating the history of Scotland, p.54
10. ↑ Foedera, conventiones, litterae, et cujuscunque ... v.1:2. p.767
11. ↑ Cal. of Documents relating to Scotland Vol.ii 733
12. ↑ Chartulary of the Cistercian Priory of Coldstream with relative documents pp.78, 79
13. ↑ Instrumenta Publica p71-72
14. ↑ Instrumenta Publica p.125
15. ↑ Moncreiffe of that Ilk, Iain. The Highland Clans: the dynastic origin, chiefs and background of the clans and of some other families connected with Highland history. New York: C.N. Potter (1982) p. 139.
16. ↑ MacGregor, Gordon. The Red Book of Scotland. Scotland: by the author (2016), rev. 2020, vol. 2, p. 341.

See Also:

• The Family Book, vol. 1: Families and Dynasties, entry for Cameron. Electric Scotland, pp. 125-126, available online.

• Not considered applicable to Cameron of Baledgarno who also held Cameron in Edinburgh: MacKenzie, Alexander. History of the Camerons with Genealogies of the Principal Families of the Name. Inverness: A & W MacKenzie (1884); reprinted Ontario, Canada: Stewart Publishing (2004) available here.