Earl of Kilmarnock
Earl of Kilmarnock was a hereditary British title in the Peerage of Scotland .
Award and subordinate titles
The title was bestowed on August 17, 1661, the Great Chamberlain of Scotland William Boyd, 10th Lord Boyd . As early as March 1654 he had inherited the title of Lord Boyd from his father , which had been bestowed on his great-great-great-great-great-grandfather Sir Robert Boyd of Kilmarnock around 1454 .
The respective Earl Kilmarnock or Lord Boyd was the hereditary chief of Clan Boyd .
The grandson of the 1st Earl, the 3rd Earl, fought against the Jacobites on the government side in 1715 . His son, the 4th Earl, supported the government until 1745, but then joined Prince Charles Edward Stuart in Edinburgh , fought as a Jacobite cavalry leader in the Battle of Falkirk in 1746, was captured in the Battle of Culloden in 1746, was ostracized for high treason ( Bill of Attainder ), executed and all titles and lands stripped.
List of the Earls of Kilmarnock and Lords Boyd
Lords Boyd (1454)
- Robert Boyd, 1st Lord Boyd († 1482)
- James Boyd, 2nd Lord Boyd (around 1469–1484)
- Alexander Boyd, 3rd Lord Boyd († after 1508)
- Robert Boyd, 4th Lord Boyd († 1557/58) (title confirmed in 1546)
- Robert Boyd, 5th Lord Boyd (around 1517–1590)
- Thomas Boyd, 6th Lord Boyd (around 1547-1611)
- Robert Boyd, 7th Lord Boyd (1595-1628)
- Robert Boyd, 8th Lord Boyd (around 1618–1640)
- James Boyd, 9th Lord Boyd († 1654)
- William Boyd, 10th Lord Boyd (before 1646–1692) ( raised to Earl Kilmarnock in 1661 )
Earls of Kilmarnock (1661)
- William Boyd, 1st Earl of Kilmarnock (1646–1692)
- William Boyd, 2nd Earl of Kilmarnock (1676-1692)
- William Boyd, 3rd Earl of Kilmarnock (1692-1717)
- William Boyd, 4th Earl of Kilmarnock (1705–1746) (title forfeited 1746)
literature
- James Balfour Paul (Ed.): The Scots Peerage. Volume 5, D. Douglas, Edinburgh 1904, pp. 149 f.
- Henry Melville: Boyd, Earl of Kilmarnock . In: James Balfour Paul (Ed.): The Scots Peerage . tape 5 : Innermeath-Mar . David Douglas, Edinburgh 1908, p. 136–182 (English, Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
Web links
- Kilmarnock, Earl of (S, 1661 - forfeited 1746) at Cracroft's Peerage
- Boyd, Lord (S, c. 1454 - forfeited 1746) at Cracroft's Peerage
- Leigh Rayment′s peerage