Paternal Family Tree: Boyd
Thomas Boyd 1st Earl Arran was born to Robert Boyd 1st Lord Boyd and Mariota aka Janet Maxwell.
Around 1442 [his father] Robert Boyd 1st Lord Boyd [aged 22] and [his mother] Mariota aka Janet Maxwell were married.
Before 25th March 1460 John Kennedy 2nd Lord Kennedy [aged 5] and [his future wife] Elizabeth Montgomerie [aged 21] were married.
On 20th January 1465 Thomas Boyd 1st Earl Arran was engaged to Marion Kennedy [aged 21] but no marriage took place.
After 20th January 1465 Thomas Boyd 1st Earl Arran and Elizabeth Montgomerie [aged 26] were married. They were half first cousins.
Before 26th April 1467 Thomas Boyd 1st Earl Arran and Mary Stewart Countess Arran [aged 13] were married. The marriage arranged by his father, Regent Robert Boyd 1st Lord Boyd [aged 47]. The King, her elder brother King James III of Scotland [aged 15] consider the marriage a great insult. He, Thomas, was subsequently charged with treason and when failing to appear in response to a summons, their marriage was declared null and void, and she was married to James Hamilton 1st Lord Hamilton [aged 52]. She the daughter of King James II of Scotland and Mary of Guelders Queen Consort Scotland.
Around 26th April 1467 Thomas Boyd 1st Earl Arran was created 1st Earl Arran by his father, Regent Robert Boyd 1st Lord Boyd [aged 47].
Around 1469 [his son] James 2nd Lord Boyd was born to Thomas Boyd 1st Earl Arran and [his wife] Mary Stewart Countess Arran [aged 15]. He a great x 4 grandson of King Edward III of England.
In July 1469 [his brother-in-law] King James III of Scotland [aged 17] and Margaret Oldenburg Queen Consort Scotland [aged 13] were married at Holyrood Abbey, Holyrood. She by marriage Queen Consort Scotland. She the daughter of Christian I King of Denmark [aged 43] and Dorothea of Brandenburg [aged 38]. He the son of King James II of Scotland and Mary of Guelders Queen Consort Scotland.
Before 30th June 1471 [his wife] Elizabeth Montgomerie [aged 32] died.
This is a translation of the 'Memoires of Jacques du Clercq', published in 1823 in two volumes, edited by Frederic, Baron de Reissenberg. In his introduction Reissenberg writes: 'Jacques du Clercq tells us that he was born in 1424, and that he was a licentiate in law and a counsellor to Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy, in the castellany of Douai, Lille, and Orchies. It appears that he established his residence at Arras. In 1446, he married the daughter of Baldwin de la Lacherie, a gentleman who lived in Lille. We read in the fifth book of his Memoirs that his father, also named Jacques du Clercq, had married a lady of the Le Camelin family, from Compiègne. His ancestors, always attached to the counts of Flanders, had constantly served them, whether in their councils or in their armies.' The Memoires cover a period of nineteen years beginning in in 1448, ending in in 1467. It appears that the author had intended to extend the Memoirs beyond that date; no doubt illness or death prevented him from carrying out this plan. As Reissenberg writes the 'merit of this work lies in the simplicity of its narrative, in its tone of good faith, and in a certain air of frankness which naturally wins the reader’s confidence.' Du Clercq ranges from events of national and international importance, including events of the Wars of the Roses in England, to simple, everyday local events such as marriages, robberies, murders, trials and deaths, including that of his own father in Book 5; one of his last entries.
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After 25th June 1472 [his mother] Mariota aka Janet Maxwell died.
Around 1473 Thomas Boyd 1st Earl Arran died.
Before 12th July 1474 James Hamilton 1st Lord Hamilton [aged 59] and [his former wife] Mary Stewart Countess Arran [aged 21] were married. She by marriage Lord Hamilton. The difference in their ages was 38 years. She the daughter of King James II of Scotland and Mary of Guelders Queen Consort Scotland.
In May 1488 [his former wife] Mary Stewart Countess Arran [aged 34] died.
[his daughter] Grisel aka Margaret Boyd Countess Cassilis was born to Thomas Boyd 1st Earl Arran and Mary Stewart Countess Arran. She a great x 4 granddaughter of King Edward III of England. She married (1) before 1491 Alexander Forbes 4th Lord Forbes (2) before 1509 her half second cousin David Kennedy 1st Earl Cassilis.
Grandfather: Thomas Boyd 5th of Kilmarnock
father: Robert Boyd 1st Lord Boyd
Grandfather: John Maxwell 3rd of Calderwood 
mother: Mariota aka Janet Maxwell