Earl of Cassilis Lord David Kennedy^{[1, 2]}

1466 - 1513  (~ 99 years)

• Name	David Kennedy
  Relationship	with Marion Murdoch Johnson
  Gender	Male
  Birth	Between 1414 and 1466
  Death	9 Sep 1513	Branxton, Northumberland, England   [1]
  Last Modified	15 Jan 2021

  
  

  Father	2nd Lord Kennedy John Kennedy           b. Between 1398 and 1450
  Mother	Elizabeth Montgomerie             d. Bef 1467
  Marriage	Bef [J] 25 Mar 1460  [1]

  
  

  Wife	Agnes Borthwick           b. Between 1409 and 1497
  Marriage	Bef 9 Jul 1489  [1]
  Age at Marriage	David was ~ 75 years old - Agnes was ~ 80 years old.
  Children	1. 2nd Earl of Cassilis Lord Gilbert Kennedy           b. Between 1430 and 1514             d. Sep 1527, Prestwick, Ayrshire, Scotland (Age ~ 97 years)
  Last Modified	5 May 2020

  
  

• Notes

  Early Life David was the eldest son of John, 2nd Lord Kennedy Career & Family Life From The Scots Peerage1 He was knighted 29 January 1487-88 when James, second son of King James III, was made Earl of Ross. On 9 July 1489 he and his wife got a charter of lands of Balgra, Auchentibbir, Pacokbank, and other lands of Cubninghame, on resignation of his father John, Lord Kennedy. The same day he was granted the bailiary of Carrick, and appears as bailie of Carrick in that year and afterwards. He was a witness to charters by the Earl of Angus to his sister Janet in 1498 of lands of Braidwood and Crawford Lindsay. On 17 February 1501-2 he got a charter from James IV of the lands and baronies of Cassilis and Dunure, and on 30 March 1506 he got the lands and barony of Leswalt ou the resignation of his brother Alexander Kennedy. He also had a charter, 28 January 1506-7 of the 4 merk land of Makbhardstown (Balvaird) in Carrick. He was created Earl of Cassilis between 22 and 24 October 1509. On the first date he is styled Lord Kennedy, and ou the second date Earl of Cassillis in the Sederunts of the Lords of Council. The reason of this elevation seems to be that he had just married his second wife, Margaret Boyd, widow of Alexander, fourth Lord Forbes, and daughter of Thomas Boyd, Earl of Arran, a niece of James III and a first cousin of James IV. David, first Earl of Cassillis, fell at Flodden on 9 September 1513. He was twice married, his first wife being Agnes Borthwick, daughter of William, Lord Borthwick, who is named in the charter of 9 July 1489 above cited. He married, secondly, about 9 August 1509, Margaret Boyd, already named as widow of Alexander Lord Forbes. She survived the Earl, and had a dispute with her stepson Gilbert, second Earl, as to which she appealed on 9 February 1515-16. From The Complete Peerage2: ...knighted by James III 29 Jan. 1487/8; suc. his father as 3rd Lord Kennedy, in 1508, and was cr., 23 Oct. I509, Earl of Cassilis. He was P.C. to James IV, with whom he was slain at the fatal battle of Flodden.He m. istly, before July 1489, Agnes, 1st da. of William (Borthwick), 3rd Lord Borthwick. He m. 2ndly, about 9 Aug. 1509 (by dispensation), Margaret, widow of Alexander, Lord Forbes (who d. between 1488 and 1491), da. of Thomas (Boyd), Earl of Arran, by Mary, 1st da. of King James II. She, who was living as his widow, 9 Feb. 15 15/6, dsp. He d. as above mentioned, 9 Sep. 1513. Footnotes [1] The Scots Peerage, by Sir James Balfour Paul, Volume 2, Edinburgh (1905), pages 460-464 [2] The Complete Peerage, GE Cokayne, 2nd Edition, Volume 3 (Canonteign to Cutts), London (1913); Cassilis, pages 74-80

  
  

• Event Map

  Death - 9 Sep 1513 - Branxton, Northumberland, England  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Sources

  [S0381] Ed. Sir James Balfour Paul, Scots Peerage, The, (Edinburgh: David Douglas), 1905, Kennedy, Earl of Cassilis; Volume 2, pages 443-502. [S0451] GE Cockayne, Complete Peerage, 2nd Edition, (London, 1926), Cassilis, Volume 3, pages 74-80.