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Gilbert Kennedy, 1st Lord Kennedy

Birth

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Working life

• In 1466 Gilbert Kennedy, 1st Lord Kennedy, was occupied as appointed one of six regents for the kingdom on the death of James II.¹
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Death

Citations

1. [S182] David Cowan, (attributed), Historical account of the Noble Family of Kennedy, Marquess of Ailso and Earl of Cassilis: with Notices of Soome of the Principal Cadets Thereof (Edinburgh: 1849), p 23; online image, Internet Archive (www.archive.org : accessed.
2. [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.
3. [S17] Francis J Grant (Ed), Charter Chest of the Earldom of Wigtown: 1214-1681 (Edinburgh: James Skinner & Company for the Scottish Record Society, 1910), Charter 33.
4. [S44] Scotland Court of Exchequer, Rotuli scaccarii regum Scotorum: The Exchequer rolls of Scotland (Edinburgh: General Register House, 1878), vol 7, p lviii; online image, Internet Archive, archive.org (https://archive.org/details/rotuliscaccariir01scot/page/n9/mode/2up : accessed.
5. [S5] William Hunter, Biggar and the House of Fleming: an account of the Biggar District, Archeological, Historical and Biographical, second edition (Edinburgh: William Paterson, 1867), p 491.
6. [S58] Edinburgh, National Records of Scotland, "Online Catalogue," National Records of Scotland (https://catalogue.nrscotland.gov.uk/nrsonlinecatalogue: viewed 21 September 2025), RH 2255 and RH1/2/256, 10 Feb 1465/1466, Indenture between Robert, Lord Flemyng, on the one part, and Gilbert, Lord Kennedy and Sir Alexander Boid of Drumcol, Knight, on the other part.
7. [S25] William M Metcalfe, A History of the County of Renfrew: from the Earliest Times (Paisley: Alexander Gardner, 1905), p 92.
8. [S2] Various contributors, "Wikipaedia," database, Commons, Wikipaedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/: accessed), James III of Scotland, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_III_of_Scotland.

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Last Edited

23 October 2026