Alias:<ALIA> of /Wiston/
Alias:<ALIA> of Ipswell & /Prestcote/
Sancho Ramirez I De Aragon King of Aragon
Alias:<ALIA> /Ramiro/ IV
John Edmonstone the younger was a courtier like his father. He married
Isabel, or Isabella, daughter of Robert II, and widow of James, 2nd Earl
of Douglas and Mar. The estate of Edenham, or Ednam, in roxburghshire,
was granted tothem by Robert II in 1390.
Alias:<ALIA> of /Mar/
"Scotch statesman was created a peer of parliament by James II by the
title of Lord Boyd, and took his seat on 18 July 1454. In 1460 he was
appointed oneof the regents during the minority of the young king, James
III. In 1464 (11April) he was joined with the Bishop of Glasgow, the
Abbot of Holyrood, his brother, Sir Alexander Boyd of Duncole, and three
others, in a commission to negotiate a truce with Edward IV. In 1466 he
obtained the appointment of his brother, Sir Alexander, as instructor to
the young king in knightly exercises,and conspired with him to obtain
entire control of the affairs of the kingdom. To this end they, in
defiance of the protests of Lord Kennedy, one of their co-regents, took
possession of the person of the king, and carried him fromLinlithgow to
Edinburgh, where, in a parliament summoned (9 October), a public
expression of approval of their conduct was obtained from the king, and
an act was passed constituting Boyd sole governor of the realm.
He now governed autocratically, but he appears by no means to have abused
his power. On the contrary, some of the measures which he introduced must
have been eminentlysalutary. Commendams were abolished, and religious
foundations which had deviated from their original purposes were
reformed. He also passed enactments designed to promote the interests of
the mercantile and shipping community, prohibiting the freighting of
ships without a charter-party by subjects of theking, whether within the
realm or without it, and also fostering the importation and discouraging
the exportation of bullion.
He negotiated a marriage between the king and Margaret, only daughter of
Christian, king of Norway, thereby obtaining the cession of Orkney (8
Sept. 1468) and the formal release ofthe annual tribute of 100 marks,
which was still nominally payable to the king of Norway, in the church of
St. Magnus, Kirkwall, though it had long ceased to be paid. On 25 August
1467 he obtained for himself the office of great
chamberlain for life, while his eldest son, Thomas (by Mariota, daughter
ofSir Robert Maxwell of Calderwood) was created Earl of Arran and Baron
of Kilmarnock, and married to the king's elder sister, the Lady Mary.
This last stepwas more than the jealousy of the Scotch nobles could
endure, and they determined to strike a blow at the supremacy of the
Boyds. Accordingly, in November 1469, Lord Robert and his brother were
arraigned before the parliament on acharge of treason based on their
conduct of three years previously in layinghands on the person of the
king. They were found guilty and sentenced to death (22 Nov.). Boyd,
however, anticipating the issue of the trial, fled to Alnwick in
Northumberland, where he soon afterwards died. His brother was detained
in Scotland by illness, and lost his head on the Castle Hill."
The Dictionary of National Biography, From Earliest Time to 1900, vol II,
Ed. Sir Leslie Stephen and Sir Sydney Lee, 1964, pp 1003-1004
DEAN CASTLE
Also known as Kilmarnock Castle, the Dean is unusual in that it has two
distinct tower-housesin the same rectangular courtyard. The oldest part
is the tower on the westside. It was built by the Boyd family in the
early 15th century and rises tothree storeys and a garret floor within
the crenellated parapet. The arched doorway on the ground floor leads
along a short passage into the vaulted cellar. A service stair leads from
the passage to the first floor via a small guardroom. Above the doorway
is the original main entrance, it has been replacedwith a door facing
into the courtyard, also at first floor level and now reached by a stone
stairway.
Inside the original entrance there is a guardroom with a trap door in the
floor leading to the prison in the thickness of the wall. Opposite the
guardroom, in the thickness of the wall of the south-west corner, the
turnpike stair leads to the upper lev
Alias:<ALIA> of /Craigie/
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