Gilbert KENNEDY

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• Historic Trivia: ; He died from suspected poisoning by the French while attending the marriage of Mary, Queen of Scots to the Dauphin of France.
• Title of 4th Earl of Cassillis: http://www.stirnet.com/html/genie/british/ll/lyon01.htm/
• TitleOfNobility: ; 1st Lord of Culzean
• TitleOfNobility: ; Master of Cassillis
• TitleOfNobility: 28 Nov 1558; 6th Lord Kennedy & 4th Earl of Cassilis
• MilitaryService: 13 May 1568, Langside, Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom; He fought in the Battle of Langside on 13 May 1568, for the side of Mary, Queen of Scots.

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Remained a Catholic until he married Lady Margaret.
Third Earl of Cassillius, succeeded to his title in 1527.
FATHER: SPOUSE: CHILDREN: DEATH: BURKE'S PEERAGE and BARONETAGE; 1896 Edition. Page 23.
He succeeded to the titles of 6th Lord Kennedy and 4th Earl of Cassillis on 28 November 1558. He fought in the Battle of Langside on 13 May 1568, for the side of Mary Queen of Scots.

Cassilis was known as the "King of Carrick" for the feudal influence he possessed in that region. In 1565, he seized Allan Stewart, the Commentator of Crossraguel, and imprisoned him at Dunure Castle, seeking to obtain from him certain of the rights over the lands of Crossraguel Abbey. When Stewart proved recalcitrant, Cassilis had him dragged to the Black Vault of Dunure, and roasted him alive over a fire until he was willing to subscribe to the charters the Earl had drawn up.[1]
Stewart was finally rescued by his brother-in-law, the Laird of Bargany, who captured Dunure and procured his deliverance.[2] The rescue, however, occasioned a feud between the subsequent Earls of Cassilis and Lairds of Bargany.
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Gilbert Kennedy, 3rd Earl of Cassilis
BIRTH12 May 1515
DEATH8 Dec 1558 (aged 43)
Dieppe, Departement de la Seine-Maritime, Haute-Normandie, France
BURIALMaybole Collegiate Churchyard, Maybole, South Ayrshire, Scotland
MEMORIAL ID179703689
Gilbert Kennedy was the son of Gilbert Kennedy, 2nd Earl of Cassilis, and Lady Isabel Campbell. Born c. 1517, he succeeded as the 3rd Earl of Cassilis at the age of ten or eleven in 1527. He was educated at St. Andrews University (Fife, Scotland) and Paris under the renowned Scottish humanist George Buchanan. Kennedy was taken prisoner by the English after the Battle of Solway Moss on November 24, 1542, and after a short detention in the Tower of London was put under the care of Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury, until his release. Cassilis was one of the first among the Scottish nobility to embrace the teachings of the Protestant Reformation and, as such, inclined toward the English party in Scotland. He served as Extraordinary Lord of Session in Scotland from 1546 to 1558 and High Treasurer in 1554. On September 10, 1547, he fought at the Battle of Pinkie Cleugh, the last significant battle between the English and the Scots. Kennedy died on November 27, 1558, in Dieppe, France, while serving as a Scottish commissioner at the marriage of Mary, Queen of Scots, and Francis, the dauphin of France (later Francis II). Since two others of the Scots commission died the same night, the deaths were blamed on poisoning, the commission having refused to allow the dauphin to share the Scottish crown with Mary.
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Gilbert married Lady Elizabeth MAKGILL, of Culzean on 18 May 1579 in Scotland. Elizabeth (daughter of Lord David MACGILL and Elizabeth FORRESTER, of Ayr) was born on 18 Dec 1555 in Dalkeith, Midlothian, Scotland; died on 22 Jan 1622 in Strathdon, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Elizabeth Janet KENNEDY was born in 1567 in Dumfriesshire, Scotland; died in 1655.
2. James KENNEDY, of Culzean and Blairquhan was born about 1578 in Culzean, South Ayrshire, Scotland; died on 11 Oct 1637.
3. Lady Margaret KENNEDY was born about 1579 in Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland; died about 1630 in Lochnaw Castle, Wigtownshire, Scotland.
4. Patrick KENNEDY was born in 1580 in Gloucestershire, England; died in 1640 in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England.
5. Rev John KENNEDY was born in 1580 in Culzean Castle, Maybole, Ayrshire, Scotland; and died.
6. Helen KENNEDY was born in 1582 in Culzean Castle, Ayrshire, Scotland; was christened in 1582 in Kirkoswald, Ayrshire, Scotland; died after 1622 in Auchendrane, Ayrshire.
7. Susanna KENNEDY, of Cluzean was born in 1584 in Maybole, Ayrshire, Scotland; died about 1620 in Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland.
8. Sir John KENNEDY, Sr. was born in 1585 in Scotland; died in 1652 in LenDale Lodge, Aryshire, UK.
9. Thomas KENNEDY was born in 1586 in Maybole, Ayrshire, Scotland; died in 1601.
10. Sir Alexander KENNEDY, Of Craigoch And Culzean was born in 1588 in Culzean Castle, Ayrshire, Scotland; died in Sep 1658 in Craigoch, Ayr, Ayrshire, Scotland.
11. Sharyn KENNEDY was born about 1591 in Scotland; died in Deceased.
12. Agnes KENNEDY was born about 1596 in Ardmillan, Girvan, AYR, Scotland; died on 2 Feb 1653 in Craigoch, Ayrshire, Scotland.

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• LifeSketch: ; Gilbert Kennedy, 3rd Earl of Cassilis
• TitleOfNobility: ; 5th Lord of Cassillis

Gilbert married Dame Margaret KENNEDY, Countess of Cassillis in 1540 in Ayrshire, Scotland. Margaret (daughter of Alexander KENNEDY, Lord of Bargany and Lady Mariot DUNBAR) was born in 1514 in Bargany, Ayrshire, Scotland; died between 28 Nov 1580 and 31 Dec 1580 in Maybole, South Ayrshire, Scotland, United Kingdom; was buried in Jan 1580 in Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• 1540 Married a second time to Sir Gilbert Kennedy: ; Gilbert Kennedy was a 3rd cousin
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• LifeSketch: ; Biography
• unknown: Between 12 Jan 1596 and 12 Jan 1597, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland, United Kingdom; Will Probated

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Dame Margaret (Marjery) Sophia Kennedy was a daughter of Alexander Kennedy, Laird of Bargany and Mariot Dunbar of Mochrum. By her 1st. marriage to Sir William Wallace, 11th. of Craigie & 17th. of Riccartoun, she had two sons, John Wallace, 12th. of Craigie & 18th. of Riccarton, William Wallace, and a daughter, Margaret Wallace. After her 1st. husbnd Sir William Wallace's death, she married as her 2nd. husband, her cousin Gilbert Kennedy, 3rd. Earl of Cassilis, and had a number of children by him.

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Gilbert married Lady Isabelle CAMPBELL, Of Argyll. Lady was born on 29 Oct 1483 in Castle Glenorchy, Lorn, Argyllshire, Scotland; died on 9 Feb 1529 in Riccarton, Ayrshire, Scotland; was buried in Feb 1529 in Islay, Argyllshire, Scotland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Alexander married Lady Mariot DUNBAR. Mariot was born in 1495 in Mochrum, Wigtownshire, Scotland; died about 1595 in Bargany, Ayrshire, Scotland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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