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2 unusual facts about Gilbert Kennedy


Gilbert Kennedy

Gilbert Kennedy, 3rd Earl of Cassilis (1515–1558), Scottish landowner, soldier, politician and judge; served as Treasurer of Scotland

Gilbert Kennedy, 3rd Earl of Cassilis

Edmund Lodge The Genealogy of the Existing British Peerage, 1859.


Crossraguel Abbey

The Kennedy family, Earls of Cassilis famously obtained the lands of Crossraguel Abbey through the torturing by Gilbert Kennedy, 4th Earl of Cassilis of Allan Stewart, the commendator at his castle of Dunure.


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Kerse Castle, East Ayrshire

Three days before Lammastide, namely 29 July, Gilbert Kennedy came to Kerse Castle and informed the old Laird of Kerse that his clan would be tethering a sow on their land on Lammas Day.