James Boyd, 2nd Lord Boyd

James Boyd 2nd Lord Boyd (c. 1469–1484), the grandson and heir of Robert Boyd, 1st Lord Boyd, was the only son of Thomas Boyd, Earl of Arran by Princess Mary Stewart of Scotland, eldest daughter of King James II of Scotland. His father Thomas was the eldest son of the 1st Lord Boyd, but died in about 1472 while his father still lived.[1]

In 1482, on the death of his grandfather, although a minor, James became the titular head of the Boyd family. James was restored to his lands on 14 October 1482, but has been generally supposed by Peerage writers not to have been restored to his honours.[2] He was however sasine of various lands, on three different dates in October 1482, as James Lord Boyd, and was witness to a charter on January 1484 under the same designation.[1] Nevertheless, he was killed in a feud with Hugh Montgomery of Eglintoun in 1484, when he must have been under sixteen. According to Boyd of Trochrig, "in ipso adolescentis flore periit inimicorum insidiis circumventus". James was unmarried, and on his death, Kilmarnock reverted to the Crown.[3]

References

  1. 1 2 Cokayne 1912, p. 260.
  2. ↑ Cokayne reported the opinion of Peerage writers (Cokayne 1912, p. 260), but Balfour was of the opinion that James Boyd's uncle James II did restore him to his title (Balfour 1904, p. 150).
  3. ↑ Balfour 1904, p. 150.
Attribution
  • This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Balfour, Paul, James (1904). The Scots peerage; founded on Wood's edition of Sir Robert Douglas's peerage of Scotland; containing an historical and genealogical account of the nobility of that kingdom. 5. Edinburgh: D. Douglas. pp. 149, 150.
  • This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Cokayne, George Edward, ed. (1912). Complete peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct or dormant (Bass to Canning). 2. London: The St. Catherine Press, ltd. pp. 260, 261.
Peerage of Scotland
Preceded by
Robert Boyd		 Lord Boyd
1482–1484		 Succeeded by
Alexander Boyd
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