Lord Kirkcudbright

{{Short description|Scottish peerage}}

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{{Infobox hereditary title

| name = Lordship of Kirkcudbright

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| creation_date = 1633

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| monarch = Charles I

| peerage = Peerage of Scotland

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| first_holder = Sir Robert Maclellan of Bombie

| last_holder = Camden Gray McClellan, 9th Lord Kirkcudbright

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| status = Dormant

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| motto = Superba frango (Bring down the proud)
Think onA General and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire; p.44; By John Burke; Published by H. Colburn and R. Bentley, 1832; [https://books.google.com/books?id=seAKAAAAYAAJ&dq=heraldry+MacLellan&pg=PA44 link]

| arms = Or, two chevrons sable

| crest = a naked cubit arm, supporting upon the point of a sword, erect, a moor's head, all ppr.

| supporters = Dexter: a chevalier in complete armour, holding in his right hand a baton, all ppr.; Sinister: a horse argent furnished gules

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Lord Kirkcudbright is a dormant title in the Peerage of Scotland. It was created for Sir Robert Maclellan of Bombie on a 1633 royal visit to Scotland by King Charles I. Maclellan had already been created a baronet of Nova Scotia in 1631.{{cite book |last1=Balfour Paul |first1=James|authorlink=James Balfour Paul |title=The Scots Peerage |date=1904 |publisher=T. & A. Constable Printers |location=Edinburgh |pages=256-274 |edition=Volume V |ref=MacLellan, Lord Kirkcudbright}}

This MacLellan surname is said to have derived from Mac-a-ghille-dhiolan (son of the bastard).{{cite book |last=Lower |first=Mark Antony |author-link=Mark Antony Lower |year=1860 |title=Patronymica Britannica: A Dictionary of The Family Names of The United Kingdom |url=https://archive.org/details/patronymicabrita00lowe/page/n7/mode/2up |location=36 Soho Square, London and Lewes |publisher=John Russell Smith and G. P. Bacon |page=[https://archive.org/details/patronymicabrita00lowe/page/209/mode/2up 209] |access-date=November 2, 2022}}

The MacLellan family was numerous in Galloway in the later half of the 14th Century and gave its name to Balmaclellan, MacLellan's town, in the Stewartry of Galloway. It is understood that the Balmaclellan lands were given to John MacLellan by James III, king of Scotland, in 1466 on John MacLellan's intention to provide a site for a church there abouts. By the beginning of the fifteenth century there were no fewer than fourteen knights of that name then living in Galloway.

Consequent upon, and sometime after the murder of Sir Patrick Maclellan by the 8th Earl of Douglas at his stronghold of Threave in 1452, family feuding without the King's authority led to the forfeiture of the Maclellan Barony of Bomby, along with other collateral estates. Not long afterwards however in 1455 some Bombie lands were recovered, when King James II, of Scotland, with support from the Maclellans, undertook the siege of Threave Castle, and won a victory over the 'Black Douglas' clan.