SUTHERLAND, Earl Kenneth IV^[1]

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• Name	SUTHERLAND, Kenneth
  Prefix	Earl
  Suffix	IV
  Birth	1272	Kildrummy, Aberdeenshire, Scotland
  Gender	Male
  Death	20 Jun 1333	Berwick upon Tweed, Northumberland, England
  Burial	Jul 1333
  WAC	5 Feb 2000	JRIVE
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  Father	SUTHERLAND, Earl William II ,   b. 1231, Dunrobin Castle, Golspie, Aberdeenshire, Sutherland, Scotland Dunrobin Castle, Golspie, Aberdeenshire, Sutherland, Scotlandd. 7 Jul 1307, Golspie, Sutherland, Scotland (Age 76 years)
  Mother	MENTEITH, Lady Joanna de ,   b. 1235, Scotland Scotlandd. 1285, Sutherland, Scotland (Age 50 years)
  Marriage	Abt 1273	Sutherland, Scotland
  Family ID	F22327	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	MAR, Countess Marjory Margaret ,   b. 1268, Kildrummy Castle, Aberdeenshire, Scotland Kildrummy Castle, Aberdeenshire, Scotlandd. Bef 24 Jul 1326, Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Scotland (Age < 58 years)
  Marriage	1300	England
  Children	2 sons and 1 daughter
  + 1. SUTHERLAND, Earl William ,   b. 1304, Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland Dunfermline, Fife, Scotlandd. 19 Jun 1371, Golspie, Sutherland, Scotland (Age 67 years)   2. SUTHERLAND, Nicolas ,   b. Abt 1314, Sutherland, Scotland Sutherland, Scotlandd. 1363, Sutherland, Scotland (Age 49 years)   3. SUTHERLAND, Eustachia ,   b. Abt 1316, Sutherland, Scotland Sutherland, Scotland
  Family ID	F21390	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	24 Jan 2022

  
  

• Notes

  Kenneth, son of William and fourth Earl of Sutherland. succeeded his brother William before 1331. The Scots, endeavouring to raise the siege of Berwick, were with great losses defeated by the English, and the Earl was killed, in the battle of Halidon Hill in 1333. Sir Robert Gordon states that Earl Kenneth married Mary, daughter of Donald, Earl of Mar. He had two sons and one daughter. Kenneth (Sutherland), Earl of Sutherland [S.], only br. and h., suc. before 7 Dec. 1330, when he renounced all claims to various lands, debts and rights long in dispute in the past, in favour of Reginald, s. of the late Alan Moray of Culbin, granting him relief of his lands in Sutherland on account of the marriage of Gilbert Moray, Reginald's s., and Eustache, the Earl's first-born daughter.[1] He was one of the leaders, with Hugh, 4th Earl of Ross, of the Highlanders in the 4th line at the Battle of Halidon Hill, near Berwick, 19 July 1333, and was killed with him, Sir Archibald Douglas the Regent, and 3 other Earls.[2] in that defeat. He is said to have m. Mary, or Marjory,[3] widow of John (of Strathbogie), 9th Earl of Atholl [S.] (who was hanged in London, 7 Nov. 1306), and da. of Donald, 6th Earl of Mar [S.], by Helen, widow of Malcolm, 5th Earl of Fife [S.], and natural da. of Llewelly ap Griffith, Prince of Wales. [1] Text in Sutherland Book, vol. iii, pp. 11-12. [2] John (Campbell, Earl of Atholl, Malcolm, 5th Earl of Lennox, and the Regent's son-in-law, Alexander (Bruce), Earl of Carrick. [3] Her sister Isabel or Maud was the 1st wife (m. circa 1295) of Robert Bruce, Earl of Carrick, afterwards King Robert I. Kenneth, Earl of Sutherland, succeeded to his elder brother, William, the third Earl, and not to his father as is usually stated. His tenure of the earldom was brief, as he fell on the fatal field of Halidon Hill in 1333. He appears first on record in December 1330, when he granted to Reginald Moray of Culbin a writ renouncing all claim over Moray's possessions within the earldom of Sutherland. This writ, in which Earl Kenneth describes himself as the son of the late William, Earl of Sutherland, that is, the second Earl, was made for the amiable purpose of settling all disputes which had arisen between their respective forefathers, and securing concord and friendship between themselves and their families. To this end Earl Kenneth resigns and renounces all rights and exactions which he could claim from Reginald's lands within the earldom, remitting all such wholly, and makes over to Moray the whole relief of his lands in Sutherland on account of a matrimonial connection between Gilbert Moray, son and heir of Reginald, and Eustachia, the earl's own eldest daughter. The earl concludes by offering to furnish all writs necessary for securing the obligations thus made.[1] How far the Earl of Sutherland took part in the struggles against English invasion after the death of the Regent Randolph in 1332, is not known, but he was present at the battle of Halidon Hill, fouht on 19th or 20th July 1333. Sir Robert Gordon states that he and the Earl of Ross commanded the van of the Scottish force, but he was really one of the leaders of the reserve. He is also said to have been one of those who prudently advised the Regent, Archibald Douglas, not to attack the English in the strong position they held. But when this advice was disregarded, and the attack made, Sir Robert says the earl did his duty gallantly, and he and the Earl of Ross were killed in leading their men against that wing of the English army which Edward Baliol commanded. Sir Robert pays the tribute to Earl Kenneth as an expert and judicious commander, that "peremptorilie hazarding all, and therewith his lyff, he lossed the same in the midest of his enemies, with the pryce of a number of ther deaths; haveing couragiouslie ther ended his dayes with great honor for the righteous quarrell of his cuntrey; leveing his memorable actions and end as ane excellent ornament to his posteritie." According to Sir Robert, Earl Kenneth married Lady Mary, daughter of Donald, tenth Earl of Mar, and had issue two sons and a daughter:-- 1. William, who succeeded as fifth Earl, and of whom a memoir follows. 2. Nicolas, who received from his brother, Earl William, sixteen davochs of land within Sutherland, in the free barony called Torboll, as bounded and described in the writ, dated at Aberdeen 13th September 1360.[2] On 10th December 1362, Nicolas received a safe-conduct to go into England for one year.[3] He married a daughter and co-heiress of Sir Reginald Cheyne and Mary de Moravia, and with her obtained part of the ancient barony of Duffus in Moray. He was the ancestor of the family of Sutherland of Duffus. 3. Eustachia, who married Gilbert Moray, younger of Culbin, and had issue. [1] Vol. iii. of this work, pp. 11, 12. The phraseology of the writ implies that the marriage had taken place, which confirms the view that Earl Kenneth was the brother of Earl William the Third. [2] Vol. iii. of this work, pp. 18, 19. The charter was confirmed by King David the Second on 17th October 1362. Ibid. p. 20. [3] Rotuli Scotiæ, vol. i. p. 867. Source: Fraser, W. (1894) The Sutherland Book. Edinburgh: Privately Printed.

  
  

• Sources

  [S767] Various, Kenneth Sutherland Sources, (Balfour, Paul J. (1911) The Scots Peerage Vol. 8. David Douglas. Edinburgh, pages 323-329. Fraser, W. (1894) The Sutherland Book Vol. I. Privately Published. Edinburgh, pages 15–37. Traquair, Peter (1998) Freedom's Sword: Scotland's Wars of Independence).