A System of Heraldry - Clan Strachan Society

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tercd with their proper arms, as I observed in my Essay on the Ancient anil Modern
Use of Armories, page 136. But there I was mistaken, in saying that Ken-
uncle to the first Bar-
nedy of Bargeny was descended of Sir Hugh, who was only
geny, and likewise quartered the arms of France with Kennedy.
Sir GILBERT KENNEDY, eldest son of Sir John of Denure, was one of the hostages
sent to England for the ransom of King David Bruce, 1357. He was knighted by
King Robert III. and was twice married ; first, to a daughter of Sir James Sandilands
of Calder: She bore two sons, Gilbert, who died in the French service, without
issue, and Thomas Kennedy of Bargeny, whose is representative Sir Thomas
Kennedy of Kirkhill ; as in the Preface to Sir James Dalrymple's Collections,
page 81. Secondly, Sir Gilbert married Marion, daughter of Sir William Maxwell
of Calderwood, and with her had a son, Sir James, on whom his father settled his
estate, by reason he married Lady Mary Stewart, daughter of King Robert Bruce
III. which (says Crawfurd), occasioned Gilbert, the eldest son of the first marriage,
and Sir James, to fall into a fatal quarrel ; in which the latter lost his life, leaving
behind him, by Lady Mary, two sons, Gilbert Kennedy, who was the first Lord
Kennedy, and James, Bishop of St Andrew's. They were both named to be governors
to King James III. and ever since the family has carried the double tres-
sure, having matched with the royal family.
In an act of revocation of the crown
lands alienated by King James II. in the Parliament holden at Edinburgh, the
nth of October 1464, Gilbert Lord Kennedy is there mentioned, whose son was
John Lord Kennedy, father of David Lord Kennedy, who was created Earl of
Cassilis by King James IV. 1509. I have seen a charter granted by that king to
David Earl of Cassilis, and his wife Margaret Boyd, of the lands and castle of
Cassilis, and of the lands of Kilkerran, which formerlv belonged to John Baird of
Kilkenny. This Earl David had the misforture to e killed at the battle of
Flodden, leaving behind him issue, of whom is lineally descended the present John
Eavl of Cassilis, whose achievement is, argent, a cheveron gules, between three
cross croslets fitched sable, all within a double tressure flowered, and counterflowered
with flower-de-luces of the second ; crest, a dolphin azure : motto, Avise
la Jin: supporters, two swans, proper.
THOMAS KENNEDY, the first of the family of Bargeny, was second son of Sir Gilbert
Kennedy of Denure, by his first wife, a daughter of Sir James Sandilands of
Calder ; and carried, quarterly, first and fourth argent, a cheveron gules, between
three cross croslets fitched sable, within a double tressure flowered and counter-
flowered of the second, for Kennedy ; second and third azure, three flower-deluces
or, the arms of France, as in Mr Pout's Manuscript ; but by Esplin, and
other illuminated books with me, the double tressure is not in the bearing.
Sir THOMAS KENNEDY of Kirkhill is the lineal male representative of the family
of Bargeny, and carries the quartered arms as above blazoned, so recorded in the
Lyon Register ; with the crest, a hand grasping a : dagger, proper motto, Fuimus.
VVhose son and representative is Mr THOMAS KENNEDY, now of Denure, sometime
advocate to her late Majesty Queen Anne, and carries the aforesaid arms, as in the
Plate of Achievements.
And in that Register are the arms of ANDREW KENNEDY of Clowburn, sometime
Conservator of the Scots Privileges with the United Provinces, son to John
Kennedy, sometime Provost of Ayr. He was descended of the family of Bargeny,
married Mary Weir, heiress of Clowburn, and bears, quarterly, first and fourth
argent, on a fesse azure, three mullets of the first, for Weir of Clowburn ; second
and third, quarterly, first Kennedy, with the double tressure second and third
;
France, as the arms of Kennedy of Bargeny ; crest, a dexter hand holding a mili-
tary girdle, with the words on it, Vires veritas ; and below the shield, for motto,
Nunfallor. Lyon Register.
KENNEDY of Blairquhan, quartered with the arms of Kennedy those of M'Dou-
gal ; azure, a lion rampant argent, crowned or. But by the paintings of Falahall,
beforementioned, the lion is not crowned. Sir John Kennedy of Blairquhan
bought the lands of Dalwyne from John Dalrymple of Lauchet and Dalwyne
in Carrick, as appears by a charter of the date 1487, and confirmed by King
James III. He was descended of Alexander, son of John, second Lord Kennedy,
and his second wife Elisabeth Gordon, daughter of the Earl of Huntly, in the reign