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John Kennedy, 5th Earl of Cassilis

b. 1575, d. 14 November 1615

John Kennedy, 5th Earl of Cassilis, was born in 1575.¹

Father	Gilbert Kennedy, 4th Earl of Cassilis (b. circa 1541, d. 14 December 1576)
Mother	Margaret Lyon, Countess of Cassilis (d. 1580)

John Kennedy, 5th Earl of Cassilis, and Jean ("Jane") Fleming, Countess of Cassilis, were married on 4 November 1597.²

John Kennedy, 5th Earl of Cassilis, held the title of was succeeded by his nephew, John Kennedy on 14 November 1615.

In 1599 John Kennedy, 5th Earl of Cassilis, was occupied as Lord High Treasurer.³

John Kennedy, 5th Earl of Cassilis, died on 14 November 1615 at age ~40.¹

[S2] Various contributors, "Wikipaedia," database, Commons, Wikipaedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/: accessed 11 March 2025), John Kennedy, 5th Earl of Cassilis.
[S28] Sir James Balfour Paul, The Scots Peerage: founded on Wood's edition of Sir Robert Douglas's Peerage of Scotland (Edinburgh: T and A Constable, 1911), vol viii, Fleming Earl of Wigtown pages 519 - 558.
[S85] Robert Pitcairn, Criminal Trials in Scotland: from 1488 to 1624, embracing the entire Reigns of James IV, V, Mary and James VI (Edinburgh: William Tait, 1833), vol iii, part i, p 324, note 4; online image, Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/criminaltrialsin01pitc/page/n7/mode/2up : viewed 14 April 2025.

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19 October 2026