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 74 CASSILLIS CASKIEBERRY i.e. "Lord Auchmoutie and Caskieberry " [S.] (Leslie); cr. 29 May 1680, with "Rothes," Dukedom of [S.], which see; extinct 168 i. CASSILLIS EARLDOM [S.] i. David Kennedy, s. and h. of John, 2nd Lord , Kennedy [S.], by his ist wife, Elizabeth, da. of Alex- ^ 9* ander (Montgomerie), ist Lord Montgomerie [S.], was knighted by James III 29 Jan. 1487/8; sue. his father as 3rd Lord Kennedy [S.], in 1508, and was cr., 23 Oct. I509,(^) EARL OF CASSILLIS [S.]. He was P.C. to James IV, with whom he was slain at the fatal battle of Flodden.('') He m.^ istly, before July 1489, Agnes, 1st da. of William (Borthwick), 3rd Lord Borthwick [S.]. Hew., 2ndly, about 9 Aug. 1509 (by dispensation), ('') Margaret, widow of Alexander, Lord Forbes [S.] (who d. between 1488 and 1491), da. of Thomas (Boyd), Earl of Arran [S.], by Mary, ist da. of King James II. She, who was living as his widow, 9 Feb. 15 15/6, d. s.f.i^) He d.^ as above mentioned, 9 Sep. 15 13. II. 1513- 2. Gilbert (Kennedy), Earl of Cassillis, 67'c. [S.], s. and h., by ist wife. He was P.C. to James V, by whom he was twice sent on an embassy to England, taking the part of the Queen Dowager against the Earl of Angus. He was of the French faction and supported the Regent Albany, and was one of those in charge of the young King in 1 523. Having joined in the unsuccessful attempt of the Earl of Lennox to rescue the King from the Douglas faction, he was a prisoner in the hands of the Earl of Arran in Dec. 1526.0 He m. Isabel, 2nd da. of Archibald (Campbell), 2nd Earl of Argyll [S.], by EHzabeth, da. of John (Stuart), Earl of Lennox [S.]. He d. between 24 and 30 Aug.(') 1527, being slain by Sir Hugh Campbell, of Loudoun, at the Pow [Burn?] of Prestwick, co. Ayr. III. 1527. 3. Gilbert (Kennedy), Earl of Cassillis, ^z. [S.], s. and h., (^. 151 5; ed. at the Univ. of St. Andrew's, and subsequently (under the celebrated George Buchanan) at Paris. On 6 Feb. C) The grant being held to be to helri mate, according to the decision of 22 Jan. 1762. ('') For a list of Scottish peers there slain see vol. v, Appendix D. (f) Diocesan Register of Glasgow (1875), vol. ii, no. 405. {^) See note by J. Bain, F.S.A., Scot., in The Genealogist, N.S., vol. iii, p. 64. if) He was tried for the murder of Martin Kennedy of Lochland, in 1525, and acquitted through the influence of his br. in law, the Earl of Argyll. V.G. (^ Scots Peerage, sub "Cassillis" and "Loudoun" says he d. Sep., but the news of his death had reached Edinburgh by 31 Aug., when there is a grant of the ward of his lands (Reg. Sec. Sig. I, no. 3878; ex inform. J. Maitland Thomson). V.G.