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Sir Robert "1st Lord of Kilmarnock" Boyd
(Abt 1420 - 1482)
[[Category:Scotland, Notables]]
[[Category: Lords of Kilmarnock]]
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== Biography ==
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}Robert 1st Lord Boyd was eldest son and heir of [[Boyd-243|Sir Thomas Boyd]],
[[#Paul5|Paul - Peerage Vol. V]]:[https://archive.org/stream/scotspeeragefoun05paul#page/144/mode/2up pp. 145-7]
[[#CokayneP1-2|Cokayne - Peerage, Ed. 1 Vol II]]:[https://archive.org/stream/completepeerageo02coka#page/260/mode/1up p. 260] whom he succeeded 9 July 1439. The Scots Peerage_ refers to Asloan MS., 6, 37, which tells us that a certain "Robert Boyd of Duchal," presumably this Robert, son of Thomas Boyd, Bailie of Duchal, slew Sir James Stewart of Ardgowan at Drumglass 31 May 1445. Sometime after 1451, King James II created him 1st. Lord Boyd. From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia 2/23/2013: Robert Boyd was knighted, and was created a Peer of Parliament (Lord Boyd) by James II of Scotland at some date between 1451 and 18 July 1454 (the date he took his seat in Parliament). In 1460 he was one of the Regents during the minority of James III. In 1464 he was one of the commissioners at York for a truce with Edward IV of England.[https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1911_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica/Boyd,_Robert_Boyd,_Lord Encyclopedia Britannica: Thomas Boyd]
The date of creation of Boyd's title can be further narrowed to between 1451 and 15 June 1452. On the latter date, the King confirmed the charter of Robert Boyd, Lord of Kilmarnock and of Dalry, conveying one-third of the lands of Lynn in Dalry to Robert Boyd [indweller] of Lynn. Only three months earlier, Andrew Lynn in Dalry was described in another charter as Lord of that Ilk, meaning lord of a property of the same name as his family name.)
Lord Boyd conspired with his brother, Sir Alexander Boyd, and obtained possession of the young King's person in 1466 and was made by Act of Parliament sole Governor of the Realm; and Great Chamberlain for life, and Lord Justice General in 1467.[4] Early in that year he procured the marriage of his eldest son, Thomas, (created Earl of Arran for that occasion) with Mary, elder sister of James III, which aroused the jealousy of the other nobles and made his eventual downfall inevitable since the King regarded the marriage as an unforgivable insult.MacDougall, Norman James III Revised edition John Donald Edinburgh 2009
Lord Boyd obtained the cession of the Orkney Islands to Scotland, 8 September 1468, from Christian I, King of Norway, for whose daughter Margaret, he negotiated a marriage with James III. While absent for that purpose he and his son Thomas (the Earl of Arran) and his brother (and coadjutor) Sir Alexander Boyd, were attainted for high treason, whereby his peerage became forfeited. He was living Easter 1480/1, and died before October 1482, it is said, at Alnwick in Northumberland where he had fled in 1469. James III's biographer sums Boyd up as an unscrupulous political gambler and an inveterate optimist. To forcibly assume guardianship of an underage King was, indeed, a familiar path to power in medieval Scotland, but it was also a dangerous path. Boyd underestimated the dangers, overestimated his support, and made the fatal mistake of marrying his son to the King's sister, an insult the King would not forgive.
=== Family ===Robert Boyd belonged to an old and distinguished family, of which one earlier Sir Robert Boyd, had fought with Sir William Wallace and Robert The Bruce.[4] He was the son and heir of Sir Thomas Boyd of Kilmarnock (died 9 July 1439). Robert married Mariot (or Janet), daughter of Sir Robert Maxwell of Calderwood. She died after 25 June 1472, apparently early in 1473. They had three sons:[6]
# [[Boyd-546|Thomas, Earl of Arran]], was in Denmark when his father was overthrown. However, he fulfilled his mission, that of bringing the king's bride, Margaret, to Scotland, and then, warned by his wife, escaped to the continent of Europe. He is mentioned very eulogistically in one of the Paston Letters, but practically nothing is known of his subsequent history.[4]# [[Boyd-693|Alexander]], who became head of the family after the death of James, the son of his elder brother Thomas.# [[Boyd-550|Archibald of Nariston]], and afterwards in Bonshaw. Archibald is recorded as being of Nariston in 1472, but it appears that there was a question over his right to the property and he had lost possession by 1500. In 1502 Archibald and his wife Christian Mure had a lease of Bonschaw and Dririg. He was dead before 4 May 1507, when Christian Mure, his widow, and her sons, paid a year's rent on taking over the lease. She was living 28 January 1523. They appear to have had two sons and' three daughters.
Note: The below section is not in the Wikipedia article.
* John Boyd: witness to his nephew James' sasine 22 Oct. 1482. * Elizabeth Boyd: died ante 1498, wife of Archibald Douglas ("Bell-the-Cat"), 5th. Earl of Angus.* Annabella Boyd: wife of Sir John Gordon of Lochinvar, who died after May 1517. * Margaret Boyd: still living Aug. 1502, wife of her cousin Robert Boyd of Badenheath.
== Sources ==
* Cokayne, George Edward, "The Complete Peerage", London: George Bell & Sons, 1889, Ed. 1 Vol II
* Paul, James Balfour. "The Scots peerage : founded on Wood's ed. of Sir Robert Douglas's Peerage of Scotland; containing an historical and genealogical account of the nobility of that kingdom", Edinburgh: David Douglas,,1908, Vol. V
See also:
* Wikipedia: [[Wikipedia:Robert_Boyd,_1st_Lord_Boyd|Robert Boyd, 1st Lord Boyd]]
* [[Wikipedia:Earl_of_Kilmarnock]]
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== Biography ==
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}Robert 1st Lord Boyd was eldest son and heir of [[Boyd-243|Sir Thomas Boyd]],
[[#Paul5|Paul - Peerage Vol. V]]:[https://archive.org/stream/scotspeeragefoun05paul#page/144/mode/2up pp. 145-7]
[[#CokayneP1-2|Cokayne - Peerage, Ed. 1 Vol II]]:[https://archive.org/stream/completepeerageo02coka#page/260/mode/1up p. 260] whom he succeeded 9 July 1439. The Scots Peerage_ refers to Asloan MS., 6, 37, which tells us that a certain "Robert Boyd of Duchal," presumably this Robert, son of Thomas Boyd, Bailie of Duchal, slew Sir James Stewart of Ardgowan at Drumglass 31 May 1445. Sometime after 1451, King James II created him 1st. Lord Boyd. From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia 2/23/2013: Robert Boyd was knighted, and was created a Peer of Parliament (Lord Boyd) by James II of Scotland at some date between 1451 and 18 July 1454 (the date he took his seat in Parliament). In 1460 he was one of the Regents during the minority of James III. In 1464 he was one of the commissioners at York for a truce with Edward IV of England.[https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1911_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica/Boyd,_Robert_Boyd,_Lord Encyclopedia Britannica: Thomas Boyd]
The date of creation of Boyd's title can be further narrowed to between 1451 and 15 June 1452. On the latter date, the King confirmed the charter of Robert Boyd, Lord of Kilmarnock and of Dalry, conveying one-third of the lands of Lynn in Dalry to Robert Boyd [indweller] of Lynn. Only three months earlier, Andrew Lynn in Dalry was described in another charter as Lord of that Ilk, meaning lord of a property of the same name as his family name.)
Lord Boyd conspired with his brother, Sir Alexander Boyd, and obtained possession of the young King's person in 1466 and was made by Act of Parliament sole Governor of the Realm; and Great Chamberlain for life, and Lord Justice General in 1467.[4] Early in that year he procured the marriage of his eldest son, Thomas, (created Earl of Arran for that occasion) with Mary, elder sister of James III, which aroused the jealousy of the other nobles and made his eventual downfall inevitable since the King regarded the marriage as an unforgivable insult.MacDougall, Norman James III Revised edition John Donald Edinburgh 2009
Lord Boyd obtained the cession of the Orkney Islands to Scotland, 8 September 1468, from Christian I, King of Norway, for whose daughter Margaret, he negotiated a marriage with James III. While absent for that purpose he and his son Thomas (the Earl of Arran) and his brother (and coadjutor) Sir Alexander Boyd, were attainted for high treason, whereby his peerage became forfeited. He was living Easter 1480/1, and died before October 1482, it is said, at Alnwick in Northumberland where he had fled in 1469. James III's biographer sums Boyd up as an unscrupulous political gambler and an inveterate optimist. To forcibly assume guardianship of an underage King was, indeed, a familiar path to power in medieval Scotland, but it was also a dangerous path. Boyd underestimated the dangers, overestimated his support, and made the fatal mistake of marrying his son to the King's sister, an insult the King would not forgive.
=== Family ===Robert Boyd belonged to an old and distinguished family, of which one earlier Sir Robert Boyd, had fought with Sir William Wallace and Robert The Bruce.[4] He was the son and heir of Sir Thomas Boyd of Kilmarnock (died 9 July 1439). Robert married Mariot (or Janet), daughter of Sir Robert Maxwell of Calderwood. She died after 25 June 1472, apparently early in 1473. They had three sons:[6]
# [[Boyd-546|Thomas, Earl of Arran]], was in Denmark when his father was overthrown. However, he fulfilled his mission, that of bringing the king's bride, Margaret, to Scotland, and then, warned by his wife, escaped to the continent of Europe. He is mentioned very eulogistically in one of the Paston Letters, but practically nothing is known of his subsequent history.[4]# [[Boyd-693|Alexander]], who became head of the family after the death of James, the son of his elder brother Thomas.# [[Boyd-550|Archibald of Nariston]], and afterwards in Bonshaw. Archibald is recorded as being of Nariston in 1472, but it appears that there was a question over his right to the property and he had lost possession by 1500. In 1502 Archibald and his wife Christian Mure had a lease of Bonschaw and Dririg. He was dead before 4 May 1507, when Christian Mure, his widow, and her sons, paid a year's rent on taking over the lease. She was living 28 January 1523. They appear to have had two sons and' three daughters.
Note: The below section is not in the Wikipedia article.
* John Boyd: witness to his nephew James' sasine 22 Oct. 1482. * Elizabeth Boyd: died ante 1498, wife of Archibald Douglas ("Bell-the-Cat"), 5th. Earl of Angus.* Annabella Boyd: wife of Sir John Gordon of Lochinvar, who died after May 1517. * Margaret Boyd: still living Aug. 1502, wife of her cousin Robert Boyd of Badenheath.
== Sources ==
* Cokayne, George Edward, "The Complete Peerage", London: George Bell & Sons, 1889, Ed. 1 Vol II
* Paul, James Balfour. "The Scots peerage : founded on Wood's ed. of Sir Robert Douglas's Peerage of Scotland; containing an historical and genealogical account of the nobility of that kingdom", Edinburgh: David Douglas,,1908, Vol. V
See also:
* Wikipedia: [[Wikipedia:Robert_Boyd,_1st_Lord_Boyd|Robert Boyd, 1st Lord Boyd]]
* [[Wikipedia:Earl_of_Kilmarnock]]
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Events
| Birth | Abt 1420 | Kilmarnock, Renfrew, Scotland | |||
| Marriage | 1442 | Calderwood, Lanarkshire, Scotland - Lady Mariota "Mariot" Maxwell | |||
| Death | 1482 | Alnwick, Northumberland, England | |||
| Marriage | Duchal Lyle | ||||
| Reference No | 735305 | ||||
| Reference No | 754833 | ||||
| Reference No | 60 |
Families
| Spouse | Lady Mariota "Mariot" Maxwell (1430 - 1472) |
| Child | Elizabeth Boyd (1458 - 1498) |
| Child | Lord Thomas "1st Earl of Arran" Boyd (1446 - 1473) |
| Child | Sir Alexander "3rd Lord of Kilmarnock" Boyd (1452 - 1508) |
| Child | Archibald "Boyd of Nariston, afterwards Bonshaw" Boyd (1454 - 1507) |
| Child | John Boyd (1456 - ) |
| Child | Adam Boyd (1460 - ) |
| Child | Annabella Boyd (1460 - 1476) |
| Child | Margaret Boyd (1462 - ) |
| Spouse | Duchal Lyle (1404 - 1439) |
| Father | Sir Thomas "5th of Kilmarnock" Boyd (1405 - 1439) |
| Mother | Baroness Isabell Lyle (1402 - 1439) |