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Crookston Castle has been owned by various branches of the Clan Stewart. Rothesay Castle was built by the Stewarts at the beginning of the 13th century. Drumin Castle was the home of Alexander Stewart, Earl of Buchan (the Wolf of Badenoch). Ardvorlich Castle, stronghold of the Stuarts of Balquhidder; Garth Castle, stronghold of the Clan Stewart ...
Stuart Hall, near Stewartstown. Motto. FORWARD. Earl Castle Stewart, in the County Tyrone, is a title in the Peerage of Ireland. It was created in 1800 for Andrew Thomas Stewart, 9th Baron Castle Stuart . The Earls Castle Stewart claim to be the head representatives in the pure male line of the Scottish Royal House of Stuart.
The House of Stuart, originally spelled Stewart, was a royal house of Scotland, England, Ireland and later Great Britain. The family name comes from the office of High Steward of Scotland, which had been held by the family progenitor Walter fitz Alan ( c. 1150 ). The name Stewart and variations had become established as a family name by the ...
The title Earl of Moray, or Mormaer of Moray, was originally held by the rulers of the Province of Moray, which existed from the 10th century with varying degrees of independence from the Kingdom of Alba to the south. Until 1130 the status of Moray's rulers was ambiguous and they were described in some sources as "mormaers" (the Gaelic term for ...
Andrew Richard Charles Stuart, 9th Earl Castle Stuart (b. 1953), who married Annie Yvette le Poulain in 1973 (divorced in 2002) and has one daughter. In 2009 married second wife, Carol Ann Reid, [6] a civil servant from Somerset. In 2004, Stuart married his second wife, Gillian Savill. She was appointed Deputy Lieutenant of County Tyrone in ...
Castle Stuart is a restored tower house on the banks of the Moray Firth, about 6.5 miles (10 km) northeast of Inverness. [ 1] The land the castle was built on was granted to James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray by his half-sister, Mary, Queen of Scots, following her return to Scotland in 1561. [ 2] The successive murders of Stewart and his son-in ...
Stuart was the third son of Andrew John Stuart, 6th Earl Castle Stewart, an Ulster Scots nobleman, and his wife, Emma Georgiana Diana, the youngest daughter of Major-General Arthur Stevens (1821–1895) of the Madras Native Infantry and his second wife (of five), Georgiana Eliza Dickson, a descendant of John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham ...
Rothesay Castle was held by the Chiefs of Clan Stuart of Bute in the 15th century and during the Scottish Civil War of the 17th century. On 28 March 1627 Sir James Stuart of Bute was created 1st Stuart Baronet, of Bute in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia by Charles I of England. [ 2] During the early part of the Scottish Civil War he garrisoned ...