Gilbert KENNEDY b. 1543 Kirkmichael, Ayrshire, Scotland d. 7 Nov 1597 Ardstinchar Castle, Carrick, County Ayrshire, Scotland: Our Family History

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Name	Gilbert KENNEDY [1]
Born	1543	Kirkmichael, Ayrshire, Scotland [1]
Christened	14 Sep 1543	Norwich, Norfolk, England [1]
Gender	Male
FamilySearch ID	LJKR-LGD
Historic Trivia	[2]
	He died from suspected poisoning by the French while attending the marriage of Mary, Queen of Scots to the Dauphin of France.
TitleOfNobility	28 Nov 1558 [2]
	6th Lord Kennedy & 4th Earl of Cassilis
MilitaryService	13 May 1568	Langside, Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom [2]
	He fought in the Battle of Langside on 13 May 1568, for the side of Mary, Queen of Scots.
Title of 4th Earl of Cassillis	http://www.stirnet.com/html/genie/british/ll/lyon01.htm/ [2]
TitleOfNobility	[2]
	1st Lord of Culzean
TitleOfNobility	[2]
	Master of Cassillis
Died	7 Nov 1597	Ardstinchar Castle, Carrick, County Ayrshire, Scotland [1]
Buried	12 Nov 1597	Chelmsford, Essex, England [1]
Person ID	I594763409	Carney Wehofer 2024 Genealogy
Last Modified	5 Dec 2022

Father	Sir Gilbert KENNEDY, 3rd Earl of Cassillis, b. 12 May 1515, Cassillis, Ayrshire, Scotland , d. 28 Nov 1558, Dieppe, Seine-Maritime, Upper Normandy, France (Age 43 years)
Mother	Dame Margaret KENNEDY, Countess of Cassillis, b. 1514, Bargany, Ayrshire, Scotland , d. Between 28 Nov 1580 and 31 Dec 1580, Maybole, South Ayrshire, Scotland, United Kingdom (Age 66 years)
Married	1540	Ayrshire, Scotland [3]
Family ID	F536728183	Group Sheet \| Family Chart

Family Lady Elizabeth MAKGILL, of Culzean, b. 18 Dec 1555, Dalkeith, Midlothian, Scotland , d. 22 Jan 1622, Strathdon, Aberdeenshire, Scotland (Age 66 years)

Married 18 May 1579 Scotland [2]

Children

	1. Elizabeth Janet KENNEDY, b. 1567, Dumfriesshire, Scotland , d. 1655 (Age 88 years)
	2. James KENNEDY, of Culzean and Blairquhan, b. Abt 1578, Culzean, South Ayrshire, Scotland , d. 11 Oct 1637 (Age ~ 59 years)
	3. Lady Margaret KENNEDY, b. Abt 1579, Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland , d. Abt 1630, Lochnaw Castle, Wigtownshire, Scotland (Age ~ 51 years)
	4. Patrick KENNEDY, b. 1580, Gloucestershire, England , d. 1640, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England (Age 60 years)
	5. Rev John KENNEDY, b. 1580, Culzean Castle, Maybole, Ayrshire, Scotland , d. Yes, date unknown
	6. Helen KENNEDY, b. 1582, Culzean Castle, Ayrshire, Scotland , d. Aft 1622, Auchendrane, Ayrshire (Age 41 years)
	7. Susanna KENNEDY, of Cluzean, b. 1584, Maybole, Ayrshire, Scotland , d. Abt 1620, Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland (Age 36 years)
	8. Sir John KENNEDY, Sr., b. 1585, Scotland , d. 1652, LenDale Lodge, Aryshire, UK (Age 67 years)
	9. Thomas KENNEDY, b. 1586, Maybole, Ayrshire, Scotland , d. 1601 (Age 15 years)
	10. Sir Alexander KENNEDY, Of Craigoch And Culzean, b. 1588, Culzean Castle, Ayrshire, Scotland , d. Sep 1658, Craigoch, Ayr, Ayrshire, Scotland (Age 70 years)
	11. Sharyn KENNEDY, b. Abt 1591, Scotland , d. Deceased
	12. Agnes KENNEDY, b. Abt 1596, Ardmillan, Girvan, AYR, Scotland , d. 2 Feb 1653, Craigoch, Ayrshire, Scotland (Age ~ 57 years)

Last Modified 5 Dec 2022

Family ID F536728066 Group Sheet | Family Chart

Notes

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.
from: Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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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Sources

[S1160] FamilySearch Family Tree (http://www.familysearch.org), The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, ((http://www.familysearch.org)), accessed 18 Nov 2022), entry for Alexander Kennedy, person ID GHNC-KPM. (Reliability: 3).
[S1160] FamilySearch Family Tree (http://www.familysearch.org), The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, ((http://www.familysearch.org)), accessed 5 Dec 2022), entry for Gilbert KENNEDY, person ID LJKR-LGD. (Reliability: 3).
[S1160] FamilySearch Family Tree (http://www.familysearch.org), The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, ((http://www.familysearch.org)), accessed 5 Dec 2022), entry for Gilbert Kennedy, person ID LRH6-STW. (Reliability: 3).