James Boyd, 2nd Lord Boyd

Who was James Boyd, 2nd Lord Boyd?

James Boyd 2nd Lord Boyd, grandson and heir of Robert Boyd, 1st Lord Boyd being only son of Thomas Boyd, Earl of Arran, by Mary, eldest daughter of James II of Scotland, which Thomas was eldest son of the 1st Lord Boyd, but died while his father still lived, in about 1472.

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