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NameThomas Boyd Earl of Arran 
[60, Boyd article, Vol II, p. 260 seq], [54, His own co-article], [60, Arran article, Vol I, pp. 219-220]
[60, Boyd article, Vol II, p. 260 seq], [54, His own co-article], [60, Arran article, Vol I, pp. 219-220]Deathca 1473, Antwerp
General1st s. dvp. 1st earl: 1467. Fell out with king and went into exile.
FatherRobert Boyd Lord Boyd (-<1482)
MotherMariot Maxwell (->1472)
Notes for Thomas Boyd Earl of Arran
a son who gave him a grandson but the last was the last and the line died out.
The heir was Alexander.
The heir was Alexander.
DNB Main notes for Thomas Boyd Earl of Arran
Co-subject: [Boyd], Thomas, Earl of Arran
Dates: fl. 1469
Active Date: 1469
Gender: Male
Article
His eldest son, Thomas, Earl of Arran, was sent to Denmark to bring over the king's destined bride, returned while the trial was in progress, and, being warned by his wife of the condition of affairs, landed the princess, but did not himself set foot on shore. He is said by the older historians of Scotland to have sailed back to Denmark accompanied by his wife, and thence to have travelled by way of Germany into France, there to have sought service with the Duke of Burgundy, and dying prematurely at Antwerp to have been splendidly buried there by the duke. In an undated letter of John Paston to Sir John Paston he is referred to in terms of the highest eulogy as ‘the most courteous, gentlest, wisest, kindest, most companionable, freest, largest, most bounteous knight,’ and as ‘one of the lightest, deliverst, best spoken, fairest archer, devoutest, most perfect, and truest to his lady of all the knights that ever’ the writer ‘was acquainted with.’ Fenn conjectures that the letter was written either in 1470 or 1472; but the expression ‘my lord the Earl of Arran which hath married the king's sister of Scotland,’ coupled with the absence of any reference to the sudden precipitation of the family from supreme power to a position of dependence, for the estates not only of Lord Robert and his brother, but of the Earl of Arran, were forfeited in 1469, would seem to argue an earlier date. Whatever the true date may be, he was then in London lodging at the George in Lombard Street, his wife apparently with him. The date of his death is uncertain. In 1474 his widow married James, lord Hamilton, whose son was in August 1503 created Earl of Arran. Lord Robert's second son, Alexander, was restored to a portion of the Kilmarnock estates in 1492, but without the title of Lord Boyd. Alexander's eldest son, Robert, created Lord Boyd in 1536, is called third lord.
Dates: fl. 1469
Active Date: 1469
Gender: Male
Article
His eldest son, Thomas, Earl of Arran, was sent to Denmark to bring over the king's destined bride, returned while the trial was in progress, and, being warned by his wife of the condition of affairs, landed the princess, but did not himself set foot on shore. He is said by the older historians of Scotland to have sailed back to Denmark accompanied by his wife, and thence to have travelled by way of Germany into France, there to have sought service with the Duke of Burgundy, and dying prematurely at Antwerp to have been splendidly buried there by the duke. In an undated letter of John Paston to Sir John Paston he is referred to in terms of the highest eulogy as ‘the most courteous, gentlest, wisest, kindest, most companionable, freest, largest, most bounteous knight,’ and as ‘one of the lightest, deliverst, best spoken, fairest archer, devoutest, most perfect, and truest to his lady of all the knights that ever’ the writer ‘was acquainted with.’ Fenn conjectures that the letter was written either in 1470 or 1472; but the expression ‘my lord the Earl of Arran which hath married the king's sister of Scotland,’ coupled with the absence of any reference to the sudden precipitation of the family from supreme power to a position of dependence, for the estates not only of Lord Robert and his brother, but of the Earl of Arran, were forfeited in 1469, would seem to argue an earlier date. Whatever the true date may be, he was then in London lodging at the George in Lombard Street, his wife apparently with him. The date of his death is uncertain. In 1474 his widow married James, lord Hamilton, whose son was in August 1503 created Earl of Arran. Lord Robert's second son, Alexander, was restored to a portion of the Kilmarnock estates in 1492, but without the title of Lord Boyd. Alexander's eldest son, Robert, created Lord Boyd in 1536, is called third lord.