Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "Thomas Boyd, Earl of Arran (died c. 1473) was a Scottish nobleman.Thomas was the son of Robert, 1st Lord Boyd, who was a regent during the minority of James III. His father was able to have Thomas created Earl of Arran and Baron Kilmarnock in the Peerage of Scotland and arrange Thomas' marriage to Princess Mary, sister of James III in 1467. The marriage was unpopular, especially after the Boyds were convicted of treason for abducting James and Mary and establishing the regency.While Robert and Thomas Boyd were out of the country negotiating the cession of Orkney to Scotland and the king's marriage to Margaret of Denmark, the regency was overthrown, and they were attainted for high treason in 1469. However, Thomas fulfilled his mission, that of bringing the king's bride, Margaret, to Scotland, and then, warned by his wife, escaped to the continent of Europe. He is mentioned very eulogistically in one of the Paston Letters, but practically nothing is known of his subsequent history. He probably died at Antwerp between 1471 and 1473."@en }
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- Thomas_Boyd,_Earl_of_Arran abstract "Thomas Boyd, Earl of Arran (died c. 1473) was a Scottish nobleman.Thomas was the son of Robert, 1st Lord Boyd, who was a regent during the minority of James III. His father was able to have Thomas created Earl of Arran and Baron Kilmarnock in the Peerage of Scotland and arrange Thomas' marriage to Princess Mary, sister of James III in 1467. The marriage was unpopular, especially after the Boyds were convicted of treason for abducting James and Mary and establishing the regency.While Robert and Thomas Boyd were out of the country negotiating the cession of Orkney to Scotland and the king's marriage to Margaret of Denmark, the regency was overthrown, and they were attainted for high treason in 1469. However, Thomas fulfilled his mission, that of bringing the king's bride, Margaret, to Scotland, and then, warned by his wife, escaped to the continent of Europe. He is mentioned very eulogistically in one of the Paston Letters, but practically nothing is known of his subsequent history. He probably died at Antwerp between 1471 and 1473.".
- Q4090351 abstract "Thomas Boyd, Earl of Arran (died c. 1473) was a Scottish nobleman.Thomas was the son of Robert, 1st Lord Boyd, who was a regent during the minority of James III. His father was able to have Thomas created Earl of Arran and Baron Kilmarnock in the Peerage of Scotland and arrange Thomas' marriage to Princess Mary, sister of James III in 1467. The marriage was unpopular, especially after the Boyds were convicted of treason for abducting James and Mary and establishing the regency.While Robert and Thomas Boyd were out of the country negotiating the cession of Orkney to Scotland and the king's marriage to Margaret of Denmark, the regency was overthrown, and they were attainted for high treason in 1469. However, Thomas fulfilled his mission, that of bringing the king's bride, Margaret, to Scotland, and then, warned by his wife, escaped to the continent of Europe. He is mentioned very eulogistically in one of the Paston Letters, but practically nothing is known of his subsequent history. He probably died at Antwerp between 1471 and 1473.".