Isabel, Lady Boyd

Parents unknown. Not the daughter of Sir Andrew Lyle, {possibly fictional}

Sir Thomas Boyd; 5th feudal Baron of Kilmarnock; was born around 1400 lived at Kilmarnock, Ayrshire, Scotland. Imprisoned and fined by James l. He killed Sir Alan Stewart of Darnley in a feud 1439 and was killed in revenge by his victim's brother 9 July 1439. [1]

Parents: Thomas Boyd of Kilmarnock d. 1432 and Johanna de Montgomery.

Married Lady Isabel

Children of Sir Thomas Boyd and Lady Isabel

1. Robert Boyd, 1st Lord Boyd of Kilmarnock+ d. bt 1480 - Oct 1482 married Mariota Maxwell. Robert fled to England in fear of being executed for kidnapping King James the III.
2. Alexander Boyd (Sir), of Drumcol, b 1439 'A mirror of Chivalry'; Keeper of Edinburgh Castle and instructor of the boy King James lll in knightly exercises: executed at Edinburgh, 1469 for his participation in the kidnapping of King James the III. [4] Had a daughter Margaret who married David Cathcart.
3. Marion Boyd married John Maxwell of Calderwood.
4. Margaret Boyd married Alexander, 1st Lord Montgomerie. Had a son Alexander Montgomery, 3rd Lord Montgomery. [???]

Notes

Sir Thomas Boyd IV succeeded to the Kilmarnock Estates, but was only to hold them for seven years. He seems to have been an excessively war-like knight.

Sir Thomas fought at the battle of Craignaugh Hill in 1439. From Dena Castle he picked an argument with the Stewarts of Darnley, and killed Sir Alan Stewart of Darnley in a fight at Polmaise Thorn between Linlithgow and Falkirk. A follower of Sir Alan's brother, Sir Alexander Stewart, promptly stabbed him to his death the next day, 9 Jul 1439, at Craighaught, Renfrewshire. [2]

It is recorded that his wife collapsed and died on seeing his body being carried back into Dean Castle. [3]

From https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Boyd-243

Sir Thomas 5th Feudal Baron of Kilmarnock Boyd was arrested May 13, 1424, during the regency of the Duke of Albany, for appropriating part of the Crown rents, and was placed in confinement at Dalkeith, but was freed on compensating for the discrepancy. One of his most tenacious and persistent foes was Sir Alan Stewart of Darnley, who had been High Constable of the Scottish Army in France. Having returned to his home in the Eastwood Parish of Renfrewshire, he prosecuted campaigning against Sir Thomas, in whom he found a foeman worthy of his steel, and the borderlands of Ayreshire and Renfrewshire had good cause to remember the rapine and plunder which 'distinguished the long continued combat. It was war to the knife, against houses and homesteads, against castles and mansions, against farmers and rustics, against all who in any way were allied to, or connected with
either of the great families of Boyd or Stewart. In 1439 Sir Thomas killed Sir Alan Stewart at Polmaise Thorn, between Falkland and Linlithgow. When Sir Alexander Stewart’s son (also Sir Alexander Stewart) heard of his father's death, he prepared for his revenge. Sir Thomas, with a hundred men, awaited him in Dean Castle, which was well fortified with its moat, drawbridge and battlements. Sir Alexander had two hundred men, but divided his forces. The fight took place at Craignaugh Hill, in Renfrewshire, on the night of July 9, 1439, where Sir Thomas met Stewart with part of his men. The rest of Stewart's men fell on the Boyd's rear, and they were ambushed. While Sir Thomas was in personal combat with Sir Alexander, one of Stewart's followers stabbed him in the back with a dagger, and after a short resistance, the Boyd forces retired. Before the fight the wife of Sir Thomas, Lady Isabel Lyle Baroness Boyd, had a dream, fortelling his death in the encounter, and she swooned as his body was brought into Dean Castle, and Died that night. This fight did not end the feud, however, for another Stewart was slain by the Boyds, near Dunbarton.

Sir Thomas had four children:

1. Robert Boyd:
2. Sir Alexander Boyd of Drumcoll:
3. Janet Boyd: The third child was a daughter, Janet, who maried John Alexander Maxwell, of Calderwood.
4. Margaret Boyd: the fourth was Margaret, who married Alexander, 2nd Lord Montgomery, Parish of Kilwinning, Cunninghame, and Ayrshire. (Robertson says she was daughter of Sir Robert Boyd of Kilmarnock).

Their eldest son, Alexander Montgomery, died before his father, and his son Alexander succeed as 3rd Lord Montgomery (c 1465).

References

• http://www.thepeerage.com/p523.htm#i5223
• https://www.clanmacfarlanegenealogy.info/genealogy/TNGWebsite/getpe...

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