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 26o BOYD BOYD or BOYD OF KILMARNOCK BARONY [S.] I. Robert Boyd, s. and h. of Sir Thomas B., of T p Kilmarnock (who ^.9 July 1 439). He was knighted, and ^"^^^ • was cr. a Peer of Pari. (LORD BOYD [S.]) by James II ^ |j at some date between 145 1 and 18 July i454,(') ''■ " ■ when he took his seat, as such, in Pari. In 1460 he was one of the Regents [S.] during the King's minority. In 1464 he was one of the commissioners for a truce with Edward IV. Having obtained possession of the person of the young King (for which, as hereafter men- tioned, he was eventually condemned for high treason), he was, by Act of Pari. 25 Oct. 1466, made sole Governor of the Realm [S.]; Great Cham- berlain [S.] 1467. Early in this year he procured the marriage of his eldest son, Thomas, (cr. Earl of Arran [S.] for that occasion) with Mary, elder sister of the King, which aroused the jealousy of the other nobles. He obtained the cession of Orkney to Scotland, 8 Sep. 1468, from Christian, King of Norway, for whose da., Margaret, he negotiated a marriage with the King. While absent for that purpose he and his said son (the Earl of Arran) and his br. (and coadjutor) Sir Alexander Boyd, were aUaifited (or high treason, as stated above, whereby his Peerage became forfeited. He m. Mariot (or Janet), C') da. of Sir Robert Maxwell, of Calderwood. She d. after 25 June 1472, apparently early in 1473. ^^ ^^^ living Easter 1480/1, and d. before Oct. 1482, it is said, at Alnwick, where he had fled in 1469. II. 1482. 2. James Boyd, grandson and h., being only s. of Thomas B., Earl of Arran, by Mary, ist da. of James II, which Thomas was ist s. of the ist Lord Boyd, but d. v.p., about 1473. -^^ was restored to his lands 14 Oct. 1482, but has been generally supposed by Peerage writers not to have been restored to his honours. He had, however, sasine of various lands, on three different dates in Oct. 1482, as James Lord Boyd, and was witness to a charter, Jan. 1483/4, under the same designation. He d. v.p., and unm., in 1484, aged about 15, being killed in a feud with Hugh Montgomery of Eglintoun.('') III. 1484. 3. Alexander Boyd, uncle and h., and, but for the at- tainder, Lord Boyd (though he does not appear to have been recognised as such), being 2nd s. of the ist Lord B. He is wrongly stated, by old writers, to have been beheaded at the time of his father's attainder in 1469. Chamberlain of Kilmarnock before 2 Aug. 1488. Witness to (*) In the Exchequer account of that year he is spoken of as " Robert Boyd, of Kilmarnock." See Exch. Rolls, vol. v, p. 453. Supplement to Acts of Pari. [S.] in Index vol., p. 23. {ex inform. G. Burnett, sometime Lyon). (b) Exch. Rolls [S.], vol. viii, p. 53. V.G, (•=) " In ipso adolescentis flore periit, inimicorum insidiis circumventus." (Boyd of Trochrig). For his only sister and h., see vol, i, p. 220, note " a."