Paternal Family Tree: Kennedy
On 12th May 1515 Gilbert Kennedy 3rd Earl Cassilis was born to Gilbert Kennedy 2nd Earl Cassilis [aged 20].
On 27th August 1527 [his father] Gilbert Kennedy 2nd Earl Cassilis [aged 32] died. His son Gilbert [aged 12] succeeded 3rd Earl Cassilis.
In 1540 Gilbert Kennedy 3rd Earl Cassilis [aged 24] and Margaret Kennedy Countess Cassilis [aged 26] were married. She by marriage Countess Cassilis. He the son of Gilbert Kennedy 2nd Earl Cassilis. They were second cousins.
Around 1541 [his son] Gilbert Kennedy 4th Earl Cassilis was born to Gilbert Kennedy 3rd Earl Cassilis [aged 25] and [his wife] Margaret Kennedy Countess Cassilis [aged 27]. Coefficient of inbreeding 1.95%. He married before 1575 his half fifth cousin Margaret Lyon Marchioness Hamilton and had issue.
On 24th July 1542 [his daughter] Isobel Kennedy was born to Gilbert Kennedy 3rd Earl Cassilis [aged 27] and [his wife] Margaret Kennedy Countess Cassilis [aged 28]. Coefficient of inbreeding 1.95%.
On 24th November 1542 Thomas Wharton 1st Baron Wharton [aged 47] commanded the English forces at Battle of Solway Moss at Solway Moss, Cumberland [Map]. John Thynne [aged 27] fought. Of the Scottish army Malcolm Fleming 3rd Lord Fleming [aged 48], Gilbert Kennedy 3rd Earl Cassilis [aged 27] and Laurence Oliphant 3rd Lord Oliphant fought.
William Graham 3rd Earl Menteith [aged 42] was captured. He was ransomed in 1453.
William Cunningham 4th Earl Glencairn [aged 49] was captured and committed to the custody of Thomas Howard 3rd Duke of Norfolk [aged 69]. He was released on payment of a ransom of a thousand pounds and subscribing by his own hand to support Henry VIII's [aged 51] project of a marriage between the young King Edward VI of England and Ireland [aged 5] and the Mary Queen of Scots.
Malcolm Fleming 3rd Lord Fleming was captured.
Around 1545 [his son] Thomas Kennedy of Culzean was born to Gilbert Kennedy 3rd Earl Cassilis [aged 29] and [his wife] Margaret Kennedy Countess Cassilis [aged 31]. Coefficient of inbreeding 1.95%.
On 10th September 1547 an English army commanded by Edward Seymour 1st Duke of Somerset [aged 47] defeated a Scottish army commanded by James Hamilton 2nd Earl Arran [aged 31] and Archibald Douglas 6th Earl Angus [aged 58] at the Battle of Pinkie Cleugh at Musselburgh.
The English army included John Dudley 1st Duke Northumberland [aged 43], Francis Talbot 5th Earl of Shrewsbury [aged 47], Miles Partridge and Thomas Wentworth 2nd Baron Wentworth [aged 22]. John Thynne [aged 32] and Edmund Brydges 2nd Baron Chandos [aged 25] were knighted.
William Cecil 1st Baron Burghley [aged 26] accompanied Edward Seymour 1st Duke of Somerset.
Edward Shelley of Worminghurst Park [aged 44] was killed.
John Forbes 6th Lord Forbes [aged 82], Christopher Coningsby [aged 31] and Edward Clere were killed.
John Thynne was knighted after the battle.
George Sandes [aged 29] was killed.
The Scottish army included John Gordon 11th Earl Sutherland [aged 22] who commanded the Rearguard and Gilbert Kennedy 3rd Earl Cassilis [aged 32]. John Stewart, Robert Douglas [aged 41], John Livingston, Thomas Hamilton of Priestfield and Hugh Montgomerie were killed. John Hay 4th Lord Hay was captured but soon released.
Malcolm Fleming 3rd Lord Fleming [aged 53] was killed. His son James [aged 13] succeeded 4th Lord Fleming. Barbara Hamilton Lady Fleming by marriage Lord Fleming.
Robert Graham Master of Montrose and James Gordon of Lochinvar were killed.
Wriothesley's Chronicle [1508-1562]. This yeare also the Lord Protectors Grace [aged 47] went into Scotlande with an armie riall in the beginning of September, and the 20th daie of September [Note. Mistake for 10th September 1547] he had battell with the Scottes within fower miles of Edenboroughe, where, by the power of God, he had the victorie, and there was slaine of the Scottes fiftene thousande, and tow thousand taken prisoners. The Erle of Huntley [aged 33], Chauncelor of the Scottes, was one, the Earl of Cassells slaine [Note. Gilbert Kennedy 3rd Earl Cassilis [aged 32] was captured.], and the Lord Fleeming [aged 53]. And of Englishemen their were not slaine above an hundred persons in all. The Scottes were numbred above fortie thousande, and the Englishmen not above sixteene thousande; and also they tooke there shipps and all their ordinance, with all the spoile of the fielde, and certeyne castells were yelded to him.
On 15th November 1558 Gilbert Kennedy 3rd Earl Cassilis [aged 43] died at Dieppe, Seine Maritime, Haute Normandie. His son Gilbert [aged 17] succeeded 4th Earl Cassilis.
Between 28th November 1580 and 31st December 1580 [his former wife] Margaret Kennedy Countess Cassilis [aged 66] died.
This is a translation of the 'Memoires of Jacques du Clercq', published in 1823 in two volumes, edited by Frederic, Baron de Reissenberg. In his introduction Reissenberg writes: 'Jacques du Clercq tells us that he was born in 1424, and that he was a licentiate in law and a counsellor to Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy, in the castellany of Douai, Lille, and Orchies. It appears that he established his residence at Arras. In 1446, he married the daughter of Baldwin de la Lacherie, a gentleman who lived in Lille. We read in the fifth book of his Memoirs that his father, also named Jacques du Clercq, had married a lady of the Le Camelin family, from Compiègne. His ancestors, always attached to the counts of Flanders, had constantly served them, whether in their councils or in their armies.' The Memoires cover a period of nineteen years beginning in in 1448, ending in in 1467. It appears that the author had intended to extend the Memoirs beyond that date; no doubt illness or death prevented him from carrying out this plan. As Reissenberg writes the 'merit of this work lies in the simplicity of its narrative, in its tone of good faith, and in a certain air of frankness which naturally wins the reader’s confidence.' Du Clercq ranges from events of national and international importance, including events of the Wars of the Roses in England, to simple, everyday local events such as marriages, robberies, murders, trials and deaths, including that of his own father in Book 5; one of his last entries.
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[his daughter] Katherine Kennedy was born to Gilbert Kennedy 3rd Earl Cassilis and Margaret Kennedy Countess Cassilis. Coefficient of inbreeding 1.95%.
[his daughter] Jean Kennedy Countess Orkney was born to Gilbert Kennedy 3rd Earl Cassilis and Margaret Kennedy Countess Cassilis. Coefficient of inbreeding 1.95%. She married 14th December 1561 her fifth cousin once removed Robert Stewart 1st Earl Orkney and had issue.
[his father] Gilbert Kennedy 2nd Earl Cassilis and Isabel Campbell Countess Cassilis were married. She the daughter of Archibald Campbell 2nd Earl Argyll and Elizabeth Stewart Countess Argyll. He the son of [his grandfather] David Kennedy 1st Earl Cassilis. They were second cousins.
Kings Wessex: Great x 15 Grand Son of King Edmund "Ironside" I of England
Kings Gwynedd: Great x 11 Grand Son of Owain "Great" King Gwynedd
Kings Seisyllwg: Great x 17 Grand Son of Hywel "Dda aka Good" King Seisyllwg King Deheubarth
Kings Powys: Great x 12 Grand Son of Maredudd ap Bleddyn King Powys
Kings England: Great x 10 Grand Son of King John of England
Kings Scotland: Great x 4 Grand Son of King Robert III of Scotland
Kings France: Great x 16 Grand Son of Hugh I King of the Franks
Kings Duke Aquitaine: Great x 20 Grand Son of Ranulf I Duke Aquitaine
Great x 3 Grandfather: James Kennedy of Dunure The Younger
Great x 2 Grandfather: Gilbert Kennedy 1st Lord Kennedy Grandson of King Robert III of Scotland
Great x 4 Grandfather: King Robert III of Scotland 
son of King Robert II of Scotland
Great x 3 Grandmother: Mary Stewart Countess Angus daughter of King Robert III of Scotland
Great x 4 Grandmother: Annabella Drummond Queen Consort Scotland
Great x 1 Grandfather: John Kennedy 2nd Lord Kennedy Great Grandson of King Robert III of Scotland
Great x 4 Grandfather: Herbert Maxwell 
Great x 3 Grandfather: Herbert Maxwell 1st Lord Maxwell 10 x Great Grandson of King David I of Scotland
Great x 4 Grandmother: Katherine Stewart Lady Maxwell 
9 x Great Granddaughter of King David I of Scotland
Great x 2 Grandmother: Catherine Maxwell Lady Kennedy 11 x Great Granddaughter of King David I of Scotland
Great x 4 Grandfather: Herbert Herries 3rd Lord of Terregles and Lord of Carlaverock
Great x 3 Grandmother: Janet Herries
Great x 4 Grandmother: Margaret Douglas Lady Terregles 
Grandfather: David Kennedy 1st Earl Cassilis 2 x Great Grandson of King Robert III of Scotland
Great x 2 Grandfather: Alexander Montgomerie 1st Lord Montgomerie
Great x 1 Grandmother: Elizabeth Montgomerie
Great x 3 Grandfather: Thomas Boyd 5th of Kilmarnock
Great x 2 Grandmother: Margaret Boyd
father: Gilbert Kennedy 2nd Earl Cassilis 3 x Great Grandson of King Robert III of Scotland
Gilbert Kennedy 3rd Earl Cassilis 4 x Great Grandson of King Robert III of Scotland