Sir_JohnStewart_Of_Darnley_1stSeigneurD'Aubigny_Arms_GrantedBy_KingCharlesVII_OfFrance_1427.svg
Summary
Description Sir JohnStewart Of Darnley 1stSeigneurD'Aubigny Arms GrantedBy KingCharlesVII OfFrance 1427.svg |
English:
Arms awarded by King Charles VII of France in 1427 to Sir John Stewart (c.1365-1429) of Darnley, 1st Seigneur d'Aubigny, 1st Seigneur de Concressault and 1st Comte d'Évreux, Constable of the Scottish Army in France. To quarter Stewart of Darnley. This was called "the glorious privilege of quartering the royal arms of France with his paternal arms".
Text of grant (translated):
The arms henceforth borne by the Stuarts of Darnley and Aubigny were, Quarterly 1st and 4th, Azure, three fleurs de lis or, within a bordure gules charged with eight buckles or, 2nd and 3rd Or, a fesse chequy azure and argent, to which last coat at a later period a bordure engrailed gules was added. The Stuarts of Aubigny afterwards added to this shield the arms of Lenox as a surtout. Argent, a saltire between four roses gules. The well-known crest of the Stuarts of Lenox, a bull's head breathing flames was used by Sir John Stuart, and his war-cry Avant Darnley became afterwards the motto of the family. The residence of the Stewart family in France was the Château d'Aubigny, Aubigny-sur-Nère , Berry . Compare arms of Duc de Berry (Source: Cust, Lady Elizabeth, Some Account of the Stuarts of Aubigny, in France , London, 1891, pp.12-14 [1] . The buckles were the canting arms of the de Bonkyll family of Bonkyll Castle in Scotland, whose heirs were the Stewarts of Bonkyll, a junior branch of which was Stewart of Darnley. (Source: Gaspard Thaumas de la Thaumassiere, Histoire de Berry , Paris, 1689, p.698 [2] ) |
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Source | Own work, using buckle from File:Blason Gabriel de la Vallée.svg by User:Spedona |
Author | Lobsterthermidor ( talk ) 02:42, 20 February 2020 (UTC) |
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