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THE GENEALOGIE OF THE CAMPBELLS 79
for many of that antient noble race of O'neills had the
name Neill with discriminating by names as Neill more, 1
Neill naoigheallach, Neill ffrassach, Neill Glundubh etc.
Read or apologie in the preface for or 'uncertainty in the
Chronologies of or present Genealogie. Wee proceed to
his son
fferrither finruadh 2 that is whitish redd or reddish whyte 8. fferrither.
(so called belike from the colour of his
Duibhne faltdhearg.
hair) was son to
Duibhn dhearg id est red is reckoned the son of fferrither. 9. Duibhndhearg
-
Duibhne donn id est brown is reckoned son to Duibhn-
10. Duibhnedhearg.
donn.
Diarmid odhuine (from whom the Campbells are called n. Diarmid
odhuine -
Siol dhiarmid (id est the seed of Diarmid) was a great and
eminent person in Ireland and very honorablie mentioned
in the Irish traditionall antiquities as a person of great
couradge and strength and very amiable to be looked upon,
he had to his wife Grain, daughter to Cornig mc Airt vie
Chuinn Cheudchathchich and so she was great grand child
to Conn Ceudchataith so called because he fought ane
hundered battells ; whereby the Campbells are descended
of the noble race of the O'Neills. This Dhiarmid odhuibhne
had a son called Dhuine deudgheal 3 (that is whyte toothed)
who had to his son Gillocollum or Malcom oduibhn, which of Maicom
Malcom oduibhn having gone to Normandie 4 in ffrance, ^^iginal'of
took in mariage the heretrix of Beochamps (that is to say the denomina-
Campus bellus or pleasant field) being sister daughter to Campbells.
William the Conqueror. Of this heretrix the said Malcom
had tuo sons the first Dionysius or Duncan who with his
offspring continued in ffrance, and are called Beochamps
or Campbells after the name of the foresd. lands. 5 His next
1 or, i.e. our.
Gaelic /fo;j« = white or pale ; ruadh = red.
J
3 Gaelic deud=set of teeth ; g^eal— white.
4 There was at one time a c/aze for Norman descents. A good example is
afforded by the alleged Fitzgerald origin of the Mackenzies, vide ante, p. 5,
note 1.
5 MS. B says that he had three sons, that the eldest continued in France, and
was the ancestor of Marishale Count Tallard, and that the third was the ancestor
of Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick, in England.