Kennedy Clan Crest
Crest Description: A dolphin naiant, Proper
Kennedy Coats of Arms
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Arms of Archibald Kennedy 8th Marquess Ailsa
KENNEDY, Earl of Cassilis and Marquess of Ailsa
Argent, a chevron, Gules, between three crosses crosslet fitchée, Sable, all within a double tressure, flory counterflory, of the second.
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
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
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
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
Thomas KENNEDY
Argent a chevron between three crosses crosslet fitchy Gules. 1) Chief Herald of Ireland, 31 March 1944.
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.
KENNEDY, John Joseph Fitzpatrick, PhD, AIH, FRHSC
Arms: Sable a lymphad with sails furled and flags flying Or, in chief a demi-eagle displayed of the second between two helmets Argent.
Crest: A demi-wolfhound proper.
Motto: Above: DIA AN TARD-RI
Source: Chief Herald of Ireland, Dublin, May 3, 1965.
Canadian Heraldic Authority, Ottawa, (registered) November 1, 2001.
Artist: Gordon Macpherson