John de Dalrymple

• Preferred Name: John de Dalrymple
  
• Alternate Name: John de Dalrymple
  
• Gender: M
  
• Death: Y
  
• FSID: KNXZ-HD8
  
• Birth: ABT 1339 in Dalrymple, Ayr, Scotland at LATI: N5.3833 LONG: E4.5833
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  IV. JOHN, eldest son of Malcolm de Dal∣rymple, was also designed dominus de eodem; but sir John Kennedy of Dunnure, ancestor of the earl of Cassilis, acquired his half of the lands of Dalrymple, which he got confirmed to him, by a charter under the great seal from king Robert II. in these words: confirmasse, &c. dilecto et fideli suo Johanni Kennedy, &c. medietatem baroniae de Dalrymple, cum perti∣nen. infra vicecomitatum de Air, quae quidem medietas fuit Malcolmi filii Gilchristi, filii Adae de Dalrymple, &c. &c. The confirmation is dated the penult day of March 1371, be∣fore these witnesses, William, Walter, and Pa∣trick, bishops of St. Andrews, Glasgow, and Brechin, John earl of Carrick, steward of Scot∣land, the king's eldest son,* the earls of Marr, Douglas, and Menteith, with many others.
  
  This John,* in the writs of the family, is designed filius Malcolmi de Dalrymple, in the years 1412, and afterwards.
  
  Sir John Kennedy acquired also Roland's half of the barony of Dalrymple, which he got confirmed to him by a charter from king Robert II.* in these words: medietat. baroniae de Dalrymple, quae fuit Hugonis filii Rolandi de Dalrymple, &c. anno 1378.
  
  John de Dalrymple, eldest son of Malcolm, died in the end of the reign of king James I.
  
  There were about this time several consi∣derable families in Scotland of this sirname, viz. the Dalrymples of Ingliston, of Canra∣gan, of Gosford, of Beltone, of Laucht, and many others, whose possessions are all instruc∣ted by charters under the great seal in our public register; also Jacobus de Dalrymple was clericus regis, anno 1402; but the im∣mediate and undoubted ancestor of this noble family was,

1. William De Dalrymple, 1st Baron Dalrymple of Stair, b. 1400 in Scotland     d. ABT 1437 in Dalrymple, Ayrshire, Scotland