Sir Robert Boyd 
Robert was born in 1425 in Kilmarnock, Renfrewshire, Scotland.1 Robert's father was Sir Thomas Boyd and his mother was Isabell Lyle. His paternal grandparents were Sir Thomas Boyd and Joanna Montgomery; his maternal grandparents were Andrew Lyle and Catherine Lyle. He had a brother and two sisters, named Alexander, Margaret and Marion. He was the second oldest of the four children.General Notes
Robert Boyd, 1st Lord Boyd, so created between 1451 and 18 July1454; knighted c 1451; a Regent for the infant James III 1460; took custody of James III 1466 and got an Act of Parliament passed making himself sole Governor of Scotland, also Great Chamberlain 1467; attainted (and his peerage forfeited) 1469 while away from court negotiating the transfer of Orkney toScotland as a dowry for the King of Norway's daughter,whose marriage with James III he had arranged . [Burke's Peerage]
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Robert Boyd, 1st Lord Boyd, Great Chamberlain of Scotland, and Marlot, daughter of Sir Robert Maxwell of Calderwood. [MagnaCharta Sureties]
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BARONY OF BOYD (I) 1454? to 1469?
ROBERT BOYD, son and heir of Sir Thomas Boyd of Kilmarnock (who died 9July 1439). He was knighted, and was created a Peer of Parliament (LORD BOYD [SCT) by James II at some date between 1451 and 18 July 1454 when he took his seat, as such, in Parliament. In 1460 he was one of the REGENTS [SCT] during the King's minority. In 1464 he was one of the commissionersfor a truce with Edward IV. Having obtained possession of the person of the young King (for which, as hereafter mentioned, he was eventually condemned for high treason), he was, by Act of Parliament 25 October 1466, made sole GOVERNOR OF THE REALM [SCT]; GREAT CHAMBERLAIN [SCT] 1467. Early in this year he procured the marriage of his eldest son,Thomas, (created Earl of Arran [SCT] 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 September 1468,from Christian, King of Norway, for whose daughter, Margaret, he negotiated a marriage with the King. While absent for that purpose he and his said son (the Earl of Arran) and his brothe r(and coadjutor) Sir Alexander Boyd, were aitainted for high treason, as stated above, whereby his Peerage became forfeited.
He married Mariot (or Janet) daughter of Sir Robert MAXWELL,of Calderwood. She died after 25 June 1472, apparently early in 1473. He was living Easter 1480/1, and d. before October 1482 , it is said, at Alnwick, where he had fled in 1469. [CompletePeerage II:260, (transcribed b yDave Utzinger)]
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Granted the title Lord Boyd prior to 13 July 1459 by James II, and was one of the commissioners sent to prolong the truce with England, which continued for nine years. In 1468 he was granted full power to visit the courts of England, Spain, France, Denmark, Burgundy, Savoy, and others to find a wife for King James III. A marriage treaty was concluded with King Christian I of Denmark, who agreed to give his daughter to James III, alongwith the islands of Orkney and Shetland as dowry.
Boyd was later accused of treason and fled to England undersentence of death.
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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*There are earlier generations for the ancestor(s) indicated. See their page(s) for details (click name)
- b.1320 in Kilmarnock, Renfrew, Scotland d.1365
- d.1410
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- b.1360 in Kilmarnock, Renfrew, Scotland d.1409 in Kilmarnock, Renfrewshire, Scotland
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- b.1385 in Kilmarnock, Renfrew, Scotland d.07 Jul 1432
- b.1281
- b.1324 in Yester, East-Lothian, Scotland d.1366
- b.1287
- b.1350 in Yester, Peebleshire, Scotland d.1384 in Kilmarnock, Renfrewshire, Scotland
- b.1280 in Scotland d.Apr 1323 in Scotland
- b.1280 in Scotland
- b.1405 in Kilmarnock, Renfrewshire, Scotland d.09 Jul 1439 in Craignaught Hill, Renfrewshire, Scotland
- b.~ 1300 in Eaglesham, Renfrewshire, Scotland d. in Eaglesham, Scotland
- b.1338 in Eaglesham, Scotland d.1401
- b.1362 in Ardrossan, Ayrshire, Scotland d.1429
- b.1323 in Eglinton, Cunninghame, Ayrshire, Scotland d.1374
- b.1349 in Eglinton Castle, Kilwinning, Ayrshire, Scotland
- b.1325 in Cunninghame, Ayrshire, Scotland d.Jun 1406
- b.1390 in Ardrossan, Ayrshire, Scotland
- b.1310 in Carlaverock, Dumfries, Scotland d.15 Apr 1373
- b.1340 in Caerlaverock Castle, Dumfriesshire, Scotland d.08 Feb 1410 in Caerlaverock Castle, Dumfriesshire, Scotland
- b.1366 in Caerlaverock Castle, Dumfriesshire, Scotland d.04 May 1414
- b.1320 in Corstorphine, Midlothian, England
- b.1346 in Corstorphine, Midlothian, England
- b.1320 in Corstorphine, Midlothian, England
- b.1425 in Kilmarnock, Renfrewshire, Scotland
- b.1304 in Dughal, Renfrewshire, Scotland d.1335
- b.1340 in Kilmalcolm, Renfrewshire, Scotland d.1369 in Scotland
- b.1304 in Lyle, Renfrewshire, Scotland d.1343 in Renfrewshire, Scotland
- b.1369 in Kilmarnock, Ayrshire, Scotland d. in Scotland
- b.1320 in Renfrewshire, Scotland d. in Renfrewshire, Scotland
- b.1344 in Auldtoun, Aberdeenshire, Scotland d. in Renfrewshire, Scotland
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- b.1387 in Kilmarnock, Ayrshire, Scotland
- d.1410
- b.1360 in Kilmarnock, Renfrew, Scotland d.1409 in Kilmarnock, Renfrewshire, Scotland
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- b.1369 in Kilmarnock, Ayrshire, Scotland d.1387 in Scotland
- b.1324 in Yester, East-Lothian, Scotland d.1366
- b.1350 in Yester, Peebleshire, Scotland d.1384 in Kilmarnock, Renfrewshire, Scotland
- b.1395 d.1439
- b.1387 in Kilmarnock, Ayrshire, Scotland
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Details of Robert's family with Mariota Janet Maxwell
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