John Kennedy Of Dunure

• Preferred Name: John Kennedy Of Dunure
  
• Gender: M
  
• Death: 20 OCT 1385 in Dunure Castle, Carrick, Ayrshire, Scotland, United Kingdom at LATI: N5.2 LONG: E4.6667
  
• Birth: 1315 in Dunure Castle, Carrick, Ayrshire, Scotland at LATI: N5.4 LONG: E4.75
  
• http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: Sir
  
• FSID: GZHM-BDX
  
• Note: with note: Description: Changed his name from Carrick to Kennedy.
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  John Kennedy of Dunure, who is probably the John Kennedy commemorated by Fordun and Wyntoun as sturdily fighting in Carrick against the Galloway men or the supporters of Edward Baliol in the year 1346, before the English domination was finally overcome. He is evidently the John McKennedy, who is named by King David II in a charter anent the clan of Muntercasduf, and John McKennedy captain thereof, the date of which may be about 1345 or 1346, at least before the battle of Neville's Cross. Whoever he was, he was sufficiently prominent in 1354 to have his son and heir named as a hostage for David II, and Gilbert his eldest son did become a hostage in 1357. Some years later he acquired the lands of Castlys (or Cassillis) form Marjorie Montgomerie, cousin and heiress of Christian Montgomerie, either by purchase or through marriage. In 1361 he received, apparently as a gift from the King, the contributions due to the Crown from the sheriffdom of Wigtown, part of Galloway, and in 1367, he was acting as steward of the earldom of Carrick. It is possible that he was the John Kennedy of Glasgow diocese who, on 10 February 1364-65 received papal letters rehabilitating his children that they might hold church benefices, they having been disqualified because he had caused a priest to be slain, who had slandered him to King David. On 29 November 1366, he gave a bond to Queen Margaret Drummond, the second wife of King David II, and to her son John Logie of Logie, that he would aid them and warn them of treachery intended against them within the kingdom of Scotland, and chiefly within the lordship of Annandale. In 1370 he acquired one half the barony of Dalrymple from Malcolm son of Gilchrist, son of Adam Dalrymple, and in 1376 he obtained the other half from Hugh, son of Roland Dalrymple. In 1370 also Malcolm, son of Roland of Carrick, gave him the lands of Treuchan and Kennochen in Kirkmichael parish or Kyrkmichel Munterduffy, to use the name given in the charter, to which charter the seal of Malcolm is attached. Between 1370 and 1380 John Kennedy was witness to a charter of the lands of Blairquhan to Roland Kennedy, who in a writ dated between 1386 and 1400 styles Sir Gilbert Kennedy of Dunure 'patruus,' and must therefore have been a nephew or near kinsman of John.
  
  He was present and did homage to King Robert II at his accession, and that monarch, at a visit to Ayr in October 1372, repeated to him two very important grants. These were first the charter by Neil, Earl of Carrick, granting to Roland of Carrick the headship of the clan, already described under the title of Carrick; secondly, the remission to Gilbert of Carrick, son of Roland, also cited there. The charters of 1372, while reciting and confirming the writs named, do not contain a formal confirmation to Kennedy, and the sole reference to him in the extant records is on the margine, where 'Confirmacio Johannis Kenedy' is inscribed in the handwriting of the roll. In January 1357-58 he had received from King David II a charter containing a general confirmation of all lands and possessions belonging to or acquired by him, and the same was repeated to him by King Robert II on 12 November 1381.
  
  Some little time before receiving these important confirmations, John Kennedy, on 29 November 1371, founded a chapel near the parish church of Maybole, endowing a priest and three chaplains to celebrate masses for himself, Mary his wife, and their children. This charter, with the lands named in it, was confirmed by King Robert II on 4 December 1371, and approved by Pope Clement VII. Later, in March 1383-84, he erected the chapel into a provostry, with endowments for a Provost, two prebendaries, and a clerk. In 1373 he was present in the Parliament which settled the succession to the Crown on the sons of King Robert II. In February 1374-75 he acquired the barony of Cumbernauld under a wadset or mortgage. Some time before 17 September 1385 he made a grant, confirmed at that date by King Robert II, to the chapel of St Mary of Maybole of the lands of Glenap and others, which his 'antecessores' had bestowed on the abbey and canons of Bangor, in Ireland, but which the latter were declared by the King of Scots to have forfeited. John Kennedy, on 20 October 1385, with consent of his son Gilber, granted certain lands to the burgh of Ayr, but he apparently did not long survive that date. His seal, attached to the charter of 4 December 1371, shows a shield bearing a chevorn between three cross-crosslets fitchee; supporter, two lions; crest, a lion rampant; legend 'S. Johannis Kenede.'
  
  John Kennedy married a lady named Mary, referred to in his charter of 29 November 1371, but who she was is not certain. It has been variously stated that she was the Marjorie Montgomerie from whom or with whom he acquired Cassillis, but if so, she must have been his second wife; that she was Mary de Carrick or a Mary Dougls, but no evidence on that point has yet been found. [The Scots Peerage II:444-447]
  
  Last Changed: 26 August 2013 by
  
  === John Kennedy of Dunure, who is probably ===
  John Kennedy of Dunure, who is probably the John Kennedy commemorated by Fordun and Wyntoun as sturdily fighting in Carrick against the Galloway men or the supporters of Edward Baliol in the year 1346, before the English domination was finally overcome. He is evidently the John McKennedy, who is named by King David II in a charter anent the clan of Muntercasduf, and John McKennedy captain thereof, the date of which may be about 1345 or 1346, at least before the battle of Neville's Cross. Whoever he was, he was sufficiently prominent in 1354 to have his son and heir named as a hostage for David II, and Gilbert his eldest son did become a hostage in 1357. Some years later he acquired the lands of Castlys (or Cassillis) form Marjorie Montgomerie, cousin and heiress of Christian Montgomerie, either by purchase or through marriage. In 1361 he received, apparently as a gift from the King, the contributions due to the Crown from the sheriffdom of Wigtown, part of Galloway, and in 1367, he was acting as steward of the earldom of Carrick. It is possible that he was the John Kennedy of Glasgow diocese who, on 10 February 1364-65 received papal letters rehabilitating his children that they might hold church benefices, they having been disqualified because he had caused a priest to be slain, who had slandered him to King David. On 29 November 1366, he gave a bond to Queen Margaret Drummond, the second wife of King David II, and to her son John Logie of Logie, that he would aid them and warn them of treachery intended against them within the kingdom of Scotland, and chiefly within the lordship of Annandale. In 1370 he acquired one half the barony of Dalrymple from Malcolm son of Gilchrist, son of Adam Dalrymple, and in 1376 he obtained the other half from Hugh, son of Roland Dalrymple. In 1370 also Malcolm, son of Roland of Carrick, gave him the lands of Treuchan and Kennochen in Kirkmichael parish or Kyrkmichel Munterduffy, to use the name given in the charter, to which charter the seal of Malcolm is attached. Between 1370 and 1380 John Kennedy was witness to a charter of the lands of Blairquhan to Roland Kennedy, who in a writ dated between 1386 and 1400 styles Sir Gilbert Kennedy of Dunure 'patruus,' and must therefore have been a nephew or near kinsman of John.
  
  He was present and did homage to King Robert II at his accession, and that monarch, at a visit to Ayr in October 1372, repeated to him two very important grants. These were first the charter by Neil, Earl of Carrick, granting to Roland of Carrick the headship of the clan, already described under the title of Carrick; secondly, the remission to Gilbert of Carrick, son of Roland, also cited there. The charters of 1372, while reciting and confirming the writs named, do not contain a formal confirmation to Kennedy, and the sole reference to him in the extant records is on the margine, where 'Confirmacio Johannis Kenedy' is inscribed in the handwriting of the roll. In January 1357-58 he had received from King David II a charter containing a general confirmation of all lands and possessions belonging to or acquired by him, and the same was repeated to him by King Robert II on 12 November 1381.
  
  Some little time before receiving these important confirmations, John Kennedy, on 29 November 1371, founded a chapel near the parish church of Maybole, endowing a priest and three chaplains to celebrate masses for himself, Mary his wife, and their children. This charter, with the lands named in it, was confirmed by King Robert II on 4 December 1371, and approved by Pope Clement VII. Later, in March 1383-84, he erected the chapel into a provostry, with endowments for a Provost, two prebendaries, and a clerk. In 1373 he was present in the Parliament which settled the succession to the Crown on the sons of King Robert II. In February 1374-75 he acquired the barony of Cumbernauld under a wadset or mortgage. Some time before 17 September 1385 he made a grant, confirmed at that date by King Robert II, to the chapel of St Mary of Maybole of the lands of Glenap and others, which his 'antecessores' had bestowed on the abbey and canons of Bangor, in Ireland, but which the latter were declared by the King of Scots to have forfeited. John Kennedy, on 20 October 1385, with consent of his son Gilber, granted certain lands to the burgh of Ayr, but he apparently did not long survive that date. His seal, attached to the charter of 4 December 1371, shows a shield bearing a chevorn between three cross-crosslets fitchee; supporter, two lions; crest, a lion rampant; legend 'S. Johannis Kenede.'
  
  John Kennedy married a lady named Mary, referred to in his charter of 29 November 1371, but who she was is not certain. It has been variously stated that she was the Marjorie Montgomerie from whom or with whom he acquired Cassillis, but if so, she must have been his second wife; that she was Mary de Carrick or a Mary Dougls, but no evidence on that point has yet been found. [The Scots Peerage II:444-447]
  
  === Name Prefix: Sir ===
  Name Prefix: Sir
  
  === Sir John Kennedy, of Dunure, obtained C ===
  Sir John Kennedy, of Dunure, obtained Cassillis and other lands in Aryshire about 1350.
  
  === My 15th ===
  Great Grandfather

• m. 1373

1. Elizabeth Kennedy, b. 1336 in Dunure, Ayrshire, Scotland     d. 1395 in Forbes, Aberdeenshire, Scotland