BOYD, Agnes ^{1 3}

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Agnes married Sir John COLQUHOUN 13th of Colquhoun and 15th of Luss, son of Humphrey COLQUHOUN 12th of Colquhoun and 14th of Luss and Helen GRAHAM, about 3 November 1564.^{1 2} (Sir John COLQUHOUN 13th of Colquhoun and 15th of Luss was born about 1510 and died January 1574(1575) ^{2 3}.)

  Marriage Notes:

"Sir Matthew married ... second, Jean, eldest daughter of Sir John Colquhoun of Luss, by Agnes Boyd his wife."

from Scots Peerage (vol 2)




"Agnes, married, as second wife, to Sir John Colquhoun of Luss, who can have been a widower only a month or two at most. Being related within the forbidden degrees, a dispensation was granted by John Hamilton, Archbishop of St. Andrews, the Papal Legate, 3 November 1564. He died January 1574-75. She died at Edinburgh 18 July 1584. Her testamentdative and inventar of goods was given up by her son, Sir Humphrey Colquhoun, and confirmed 18 April 1588."

from Scots Peerage (vol 5)




"John Colquhoun of Luss did not remain long a widower. Within a few months apparently after the death of his first wife, Christian Erskine, he married, secondly, Agnes, daughter of Robert fourth Lord Boyd. Sir John and Agnes having been related to each other in the third and fourth degrees of consanguinity, a Papal dispensation was necessary, according to the canons of the Roman Catholic Church, to render their marriage lawful. This dispensation was, therefore, applied for from John Hamilton, Archbishop of St. Andrews, the Pope's legate a latere, who had the power of granting it, and it was readily obtained. This dispensation is dated 3d November 1564."

from The Chiefs of Colquhoun

Note
There is a discrepancy in the above quotations about whose daughter Agnes was. Both the fourth and the fifth Lord Boyd had marriage ties with the Colquhouns, and so it is not difficult to see why a dispensation was necessary. The fifth Lord Boyd's marriage contract was dated 1535.

























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