Archibald Craufurd of Craufurdland

  Noted events in his life were:

• Details. I. Archibald Craufurd of Craufurdland, lived during the reign of King James III, married twice. His first wife, Jean Kennedy of Bargenny, bore him a son Robert. His second wife was Lady Pokelly, daughter of Archibald Boyd of Bonshaw,and widow of Hugh Muir of Pokelly. Together they had two sons and a daughter: 1) Thomas, of whom the Craufurds of Classlochie and Powmill are descended; 2) William, and daughter Jean.
Archibald's sister-in-law, Margaret Boyd, his wife's second younger sister, was in her youth mistress to King James IV, and bore him Alexander Stewart, Archbishop of St Andrews, and Jean, countess of Morton. Margaret thus found herself much in favour in court, and in addition she was cousin to Dame Elisabeth Boyd daughter of Thomas Lord Boyd, and to Countess Of Angus, whose husband Archibald, Earl of Angus, (then Chamberlain) had the greatest power in the state. Margaret used her good favour to gain the Lordship of Kilmarnock for her cousins the Boyds. For herself she married John Muir, Laird of Rowallan, whilst brought about the marriages of her sisters to the Lairds of Lochleven, and Craufurdland, namely Archibald Craufurd.
Margaret further got Elizabeth Muir daughter to her sister, Lady Pokelly and her late husband Hugh, to married Robert Craufurd, son of Archibald and his first wife Jean. For this marriage she procured for Robert the lands of Walston, from Archibald, Earl of Angus.
There had also been a long feud between the Lairds of Craufurdland Rowallan, which through the influence of Margarat Boyd, was settled with the surrender to the Laird of Craufurdland by the Laird of Rowallan. The feud was over the lands of Ardoch.

Archibald married Jean Kennedy of Bargenny.