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KENNEDY ARMS

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Officially Recorded in Scotland

Arms
Armiger
Blazon
Source
KENNEDY OF GIRVANMAINS

Argent on a chevron Gules between three cross crosslets fitchee Sable a boars' head of the first in the middle chief point a man's heart of the second. Sir James Balfour Paul's Scottish Ordinary.

1672

KENNEDY OF LAHAN

Quarterly 1st & 4th Argent a chevron invected Gules. between three cross crosslets fitchee Sable 2nd & 3rd Azure a lion rampant Argent crowned Or. Sir James Balfour Paul's Scottish Ordinary.

(1672-7)
[impaled by Bethune of Longhermiston]

KENNEDY OF KIRKMICHAEL

Argent a chevron Gules between two cross crosslets fitchee in chief and a boars' head erased in base Sable. Sir James Balfour Paul's Scottish Ordinary.

1678-9

KENNEDY OF KIRKHILL
representative of BARGENY

Quarterly 1st & 4th Argent a chevron Gules between three cross crosslets fitchee, within a double tressure flory counter-flory Sable 2nd & 3rd Azure three fleurs de lys Or. Sir James Balfour Paul's Scottish Ordinary.

1678-9

KENNEDY OF CLOWBURN

Quarterly 1st & 4th Argent on a fess Azure three mullets of the first 2nd & 3rd Grand Quarterly i & iv Argent a chevron Gules. between three cross crosslets fitchee Sable within a double flory counter-flory of the second ii & iii Azure three fleurs de lys Or. Sir James Balfour Paul's Scottish Ordinary.

1680-7

KENNEDY OF AUCHTYFARDEL

Argent on a chevron Gules between three cross crosslets fitchee Sable a fleur de lys Or. Sir James Balfour Paul's Scottish Ordinary.

1752

FERGUSSON KENNEDY OF BENNANE

Quarterly 1st & 4th Argent a chevron Gules between three cross crosslets fitchee Sable 2nd & 3rd Azure three fleurs de lys Or. Sir James Balfour Paul's Scottish Ordinary.

1837

Lt Col Alexander Kennedy Clark KENNEDY CB

Argent A chevron Gules. between three cross crosslets fitchee Sable in the middle chief a fleur de lys Azure on a chief ermine the representation of a French eagle and flag with the inscription 'L'empereur Napoleon au 105me Regiment d'infanteric de ligne' thereon, and a sword disposed saltire-ways, and over the same the word 'Waterloo.' Sir James Balfour Paul's Scottish Ordinary.

1839

KENNEDY OF UNDERWOOD

Argent on a chevron Gules between three cross crosslets fitchee Sable a spur-revel between two lions counter-passant Or. Sir James Balfour Paul's Scottish Ordinary.

1850

MARQUIS OF AILSA

Argent a chevron Gules between three cross crosslets fitchee Sable within a double tressure flory counter flory of the second. Sir James Balfour Paul's Scottish Ordinary.

1899

William McLaughlin KENNEDY
New Zealand

Quarterly 1st & 4th Argent; a chevron Gules between three cross crosslets fitchee Sable 2nd & 3rd Azure; three fleurs de lis Or the whole (escutcheon) within a bordure Gules. An Ordinary of Arms Volume II 1902-1973

16th August 1905 18/37

Hon. (Lord) Hugh KENNEDY

Quarterly 1st & 4th Argent; a chevron Gules between three cross crosslets Sable all within a double tressure flory counter flory of the second (for Kennedy) 2nd Argent; a pale Sable, on a canton Gules a sword in pale Argent hilted and pommelled Or (for Erskine of Dun) 3rd Azure; a fess embattled Or between three cocks' heads erased Argent, beaked Or, combed and wattled Gules (for Jephson) at the fess point of the escutcheon a holly leaf Vert-having reference to MacMaster. An Ordinary of Arms Volume II 1902-1973

23rd October 1945 35/50

Dr. Clyde MACLEAN-KENNEDY
Canada

Argent; on a chevron Gules between two cross crosslets fitchee in chief and in base a galley sails furled, oars in saltire Sable, flagged of the second, a maple leaf Or. An Ordinary of Arms Volume II 1902-1973

3rd March 1955 40/69

Sir John Noble KENNEDY
Governor and Commander in Chief Southern Rhodesia

Argent; a chevron Gules between two cross crosslets fitchee in chief and a leopard's face in base Sable. An Ordinary of Arms Volume II 1902-1973

3rd March 1955 40/69

David KENNEDY

Argent; a chevron Gules between three cross crosslets fitchee Sable, on a chief Azure a lymphad sails furled between a fleur de lis in dexter and an estoile in sinister all of the first, a bordure Or charged with four crescents Gules alternately with two mullets of the third in chief and in base respectively and with two escallops in fess also of the third for his difference. An Ordinary of Arms Volume II 1902-1973

9th December 1963 47/38

Lt. Col. Alexander John Clark KENNEDY OF KNOCKGRAY

Argent; a chevron Gules between three cross crosslets fitchee Sable and in the centre chief point a fleur de lis Azure; and for an honourable augmentation upon a chief Ermine the representation of a French eagle and flag with the inscription 'L'Empereur Napoleon du 105me Regiment' thereon and a sword disposed saltire-ways (being commemorative of the capture of the eagle at Waterloo by the petitioner's ancestor Lt. Col. Alexander Kennedy Clark Kennedy and being that of the 105th Regiment of French infantry when in command of and leading the centre squadron of the first or Royal Dragoons at that battle). An Ordinary of Arms Volume II 1902-1973

22nd September 1967 49/47

Thomas Henry KENNEDY

Argent; a chevron Gules between in chief two cross crosslets fitchee, and in base a roe deer's head erased Sable. An Ordinary of Arms Volume II 1902-1973

3rd November 1970 52/72


Full Achievement
Darrel E. KENNEDY

Argent on a chevron Gules between in chief two cross-crosslets fitchee Sable and in base a bull's head cabossed Proper a Bible expanded Proper bindings and fore-edges Or surmounted with a crescent of the Third. The Court of the Lord Lyon
Lyon Register, Volume 70, page 70
4th September 1989
Recorded Elsewhere

Arms
Armiger & House
Blazon
Source/Notes
John SHAW-KENNEDY

Argent a chevron Gules between two cross crosslets fitchee in chief and a boars' head erased in base Sable. Fox-Davies Armorial Families 1902
1) The Most Honourable Sir Archibald Kennedy
2) Archibald David Kennedy
3) Archibald Angus Charles Kennedy
MARQUIS OF AILSA

Argent a chevron Gules between three cross crosslets fitchee Sable within a double tressure flory counter flory of the second. 1) Fox-Davies Armorial Families 1902
2) Debretts Peerage & Baronetage 1990
3) Who's Who 2004
John William James CLARK-KENNEDY

Argent A chevron Gules between three cross crosslets fitchee Sable in chief a fleur de lys of the second and as an honourable augmentation on a canton ermine the eagle and colours of the 105th Regiment and a sword crossed proper and them the word 'Waterloo.' Fox-Davies Armorial Families 1902
John KENNEDY

Argent on a chevron Gules between three cross crosslets fitchee Sable a mullet pierced between two lions counter-passant Or. Fox-Davies Armorial Families 1902
Roland FERGUSSONE KENNEDY

Quarterly 1st & 4th Argent a chevron Gules between three cross crosslets fitchee Sable (for Kennedy) 2nd & 3rd Azure three fleurs de lys Or (for France). Fox-Davies Armorial Families 1902
Sir Michael Edward KENNEDY Bt
of Johnstown
8th Baronet

Sable on a fesse between three esquires helmet Argent a fox courant proper. Debretts Peerage & Baronetage 1990

Full Achievement
President John Fitzgerald KENNEDY

Sable three helmets in profile Or within a bordure per saltire Gules and Ermine. Chief Herald of Ireland, 8 March 1961.

Full Achievement
John Joseph Fitzpatrick KENNEDY

Sable a lymphad with sails furled and flags flying Or, in chief a demi-eagle displayed of the second between two helmets Argent. 1) Chief Herald of Ireland, 3 May 1965.
2) Canadian Heraldic Authority, 1 November 2001.