Janet Kennedy was a favourite mistress of King James IV of Scotland and this may have been a marriage of political convenience.
On 8 October 1488, after the death of James III at the battle of Sauchieburn, John Ramsay lost his title.
[3] His first letter describes a visit to St Andrews where he presented Henry VII's gift of a crossbow to the king's brother James Stewart, Duke of Ross.
[4] Another letter describes plans for a Scottish army to come to Ellem Kirk, on behalf of the "feigned boy" Perkin.
Bothwell also describes the arrival of the Flemish knight Roderick de lalaing, and the artillery in Edinburgh castle.
He negotiated the marriage of James IV to the daughter of Henry VII, thereby laying the cornerstone of the United Kingdom.
His son William born around 1510 was entrusted to the Bishop of Dunblane, James Chisholm, uterine brother of Sir John Ramsay.