Robert Lord Boyd and his brother Sir Alexander Boyd took physical control of the fifteen-year-old James III in a bloodless coup at Linlithgow in 1466. Armed men intercepted the king during a hunting party and compelled him to accompany them to Edinburgh. The Boyds ruled Scotland as regents for four years until James III came of age and exiled them. The coup showed how fragile royal authority could be during minority — and how the nobility of the Lowlands could organise swift, decisive action.
Boyd family retinue with armed escort; royal household
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