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Jan 01, 0001 Died on 27 May 1661 (aged 1660)
Governed Scotland during Wars of the Three Kingdoms
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About Archibald Campbell 1st Marquess Of Argyll
- Archibald Campbell, 1st Marquess of Argyll, 8th Earl of Argyll, chief of Clan Campbell, (March 1607 – 27 May 1661) was a Scottish nobleman, politician, and peer.
- The de facto head of Scotland's government during most of the conflict of the 1640s and 50s known as the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, he was a major figure in the Covenanter movement that fought for the maintenance of the Presbyterian religion against the Stuart monarchy's attempts to impose episcopacy.
- He is often remembered as the principal opponent of the royalist general James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose.
