Stephenson Family Tree » Lord Gilbert Kennedy (1541-1576)
Personal data Lord Gilbert Kennedy
- He was born on October 15, 1541 in Cassilis, Ayrshire, Scotland.
Attention: Age at marriage (September 30, 1556) below 16 years (14). - He died on December 14, 1576 in Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland, he was 35 years old.
- He is buried on November 12, 1597 in Chelmsford, Essex, England.
- A child of Gilbert Kennedy and Margaret Sophia Kennedy
- This information was last updated on October 18, 2023.
Household of Lord Gilbert Kennedy
(1) He is married to Agnes Montgomerie.
They got married on September 30, 1556 at Hamilton, Lanarkshire, Scotland, he was 14 years old.
Child(ren):
- Margaret Kennedy ± 1556-1591
- Thomas Kennedy ± 1558-1602
- M Kennedy ± 1560-1578
- Helen Kennedy 1560-1599
- Hugh Kennedy ± 1567-????
- Elizabeth Kennedy ± 1568-????
- Isabel Kennedy 1573-????
- John Kennedy 1575-1615
- Ann Kennedy ± 1578-????
(2) He had a relationship with Margaret Lyon.
(3) He had a relationship with Margeret Bredie.
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Historical events
Birthday October 15, 1541
- Graaf Karel II (Oostenrijks Huis) was from 1515 till 1555 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Graafschap Holland)
- In the year 1541: Source: Wikipedia
- April 7 » Francis Xavier leaves Lisbon on a mission to the Portuguese East Indies.
- June 26 » Francisco Pizarro is assassinated in Lima by the son of his former companion and later antagonist, Diego de Almagro the younger. Almagro is later caught and executed.
- August 29 » The Ottoman Turks capture Buda, the capital of the Hungarian Kingdom.
- September 13 » After three years of exile, John Calvin returns to Geneva to reform the church under a body of doctrine known as Calvinism.
- September 30 » Spanish conquistador Hernando de Soto and his forces enter Tula territory in present-day western Arkansas, encountering fierce resistance.
- December 10 » Thomas Culpeper and Francis Dereham are executed for having affairs with Catherine Howard, Queen of England and wife of Henry VIII.
Day of marriage September 30, 1556
- Graaf Filips III (Oostenrijks Huis) was from 1555 till 1581 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Graafschap Holland)
- In the year 1556: Source: Wikipedia
- January 23 » The deadliest earthquake in history, the Shaanxi earthquake, hits Shaanxi province, China. The death toll may have been as high as 830,000.
- February 14 » Coronation of Akbar.
- February 14 » Thomas Cranmer is declared a heretic.
- March 21 » On the day of his execution in Oxford, former Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Cranmer deviates from the scripted sermon by renouncing the recantations he has made and adds, "And as for the pope, I refuse him, as Christ's enemy, and Antichrist with all his false doctrine."
- September 15 » Departing from Vlissingen, ex-Holy Roman Emperor Charles V returns to Spain.
- November 5 » Second Battle of Panipat: Fought between the forces of Hem Chandra Vikramaditya, the Hindu king at Delhi and forces of Muslim Emperor Akbar.
Day of death December 14, 1576
- Graaf Filips III (Oostenrijks Huis) was from 1555 till 1581 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Graafschap Holland)
- In the year 1576: Source: Wikipedia
- January 20 » The Mexican city of León is founded by order of the viceroy Don Martín Enríquez de Almanza.
- March 8 » Spanish explorer Diego García de Palacio first sights the ruins of the ancient Mayan city of Copán.
- July 11 » While exploring the North Atlantic Ocean in an attempt to find the Northwest Passage, Martin Frobisher sights Greenland, mistaking it for the hypothesized (but non-existent) island of "Frisland".
- July 12 » Mughal Empire annexes Bengal after defeating the Bengal Sultanate at the Battle of Rajmahal.
- August 8 » The cornerstone for Tycho Brahe's Uraniborg observatory is laid on the island of Hven.
- November 8 » Eighty Years' War: Pacification of Ghent: The States General of the Netherlands meet and unite to oppose Spanish occupation.
Day of burial November 12, 1597
- Stadhouder Prins Maurits (Huis van Oranje) was from 1585 till 1625 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
- In the year 1597: Source: Wikipedia
- February 5 » A group of early Japanese Christians are killed by the new government of Japan for being seen as a threat to Japanese society.
- August 17 » Islands Voyage: Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, and Sir Walter Raleigh set sail on an expedition to the Azores.
- October 4 » Governor Gonzalo Méndez de Canço begins to suppress a native uprising against his rule in what is now Georgia.
- October 26 » Imjin War: Korean Admiral Yi Sun-sin routs the Japanese Navy of 300 ships with only 13 ships at the Battle of Myeongnyang.
Same birth/death day
- 1471 » Konrad Mutian, German epigrammatist and academic († 1526)
- 1542 » Akbar, Mughal emperor († 1605)
- 1561 » Richard Field, English cathedral dean († 1616)
- 1564 » Henry Julius, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg († 1613)
- 1599 » Cornelis de Graeff, Dutch mayor and regent of Amsterdam († 1664)
- 1608 » Evangelista Torricelli, Italian physicist and mathematician († 1647)
- 1503 » Sten Sture the Elder, regent of Sweden (b. 1440)
- 1510 » Friedrich of Saxony (b. 1473)
- 1542 » James V of Scotland (b. 1512)
- 1591 » John of the Cross, Spanish priest and saint (b. 1542)
- 1595 » Henry Hastings, 3rd Earl of Huntingdon (b. 1535)
- 1624 » Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Nottingham, English politician, Lord High Admiral (b. 1536)
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