John of Cambo

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Sir John of Cambo († August 4, 1306 in Newcastle ) was a Scottish nobleman and rebel.

John of Cambo was a Scottish laird who owned land near Cambo in East Neuk of Fife . Its origin is unknown. He was not a son of Walter of Cambo , who had served as administrator of Fife in 1294 . Although he had a son named John , who was a loyal supporter of the English king as Sheriff and Knight of the Shire for Northumberland at the beginning of the 14th century . During the First Scottish War of Independence , at the end of the 13th century, John of Cambo supported the Guardians in their fight against the English king, who sought suzerainty in Scotland. Like the Guardian John Comyn and numerous other nobles, he wanted to surrender to the desperate situation in 1304 at St Andrews . Cambo was supposed to pay homage to the English King Edward I , but this did not come about because of a dispute with the Anglo-French baron Henry de Beaumont . Beaumont claimed the income from the Crail fishing port on behalf of his sister Isabel de Vescy , who claimed this as her hereditary right. The income from Crail also claimed Cambo, but in 1305 the English crown confirmed the right of Isabel, who passed it on to her brother Henry. This is probably why Cambo supported the rebellion of Robert Bruce , who rose to be King of the Scots in March 1306. After the Battle of Methven , Cambo was captured by the English. The English commander Aymer de Valence sent him to Berwick . The King of England had the supporters of the Rebellion punished mercilessly by Bruce. Cambo was convicted of a traitor, brought to Newcastle and hanged there along with fifteen other rebels, including John Seton .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Geoffrey WS Barrow: Scotland and its neighbors in the Middle Ages . Hambledon, London 1991, ISBN 1-85285-052-3 , p. 169.
  2. ^ Geoffrey WS Barrow: Robert Bruce and the Community of the Realm of Scotland . Eyre & Spottiswoode, London 1965, p. 188.
  3. ^ Geoffrey WS Barrow: Robert Bruce and the Community of the Realm of Scotland . Eyre & Spottiswoode, London 1965, p. 221.
personal data
SURNAME John of Cambo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Scottish nobleman and rebel
DATE OF BIRTH 13th Century
DATE OF DEATH 4th August 1306
Place of death Newcastle upon Tyne