The Château d'Aubigny in the parish and
manor of
Aubigny-sur-Nère in the ancient
province
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of
Berry
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in France, is an historic ancestral seat of a junior branch of the Scottish
House of Stewart
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, known by the territorial title
Seigneur d'Aubigny. It is known to the French as the ''Château des Stuarts''.
History
The estate was first acquired by Sir
John Stewart of Darnley
Sir John Stewart of Darnley, 1st Comte d'Évreux, 1st Seigneur de Concressault, 1st Seigneur d'Aubigny (1429) was a Scottish nobleman and famous military commander who served as Constable of the Scottish Army in France, supporting the French ag ...
, 1st
Comte d'Évreux, 1st Seigneur de Concressault, 1st Seigneur d'Aubigny ( 1380 – 1429), a
Scottish
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*Scottish Gaelic, a Celtic Goidelic language of the Indo-European language family native to Scotland
*Scottish English
*Scottish national identity, the Scottish ide ...
nobleman and famous military commander who served as Constable of the Scottish Army in France, supporting the French against the English during the
Hundred Years War
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. He was a fourth cousin of King
James I of Scotland
James I (late July 1394 – 21 February 1437) was List of Scottish monarchs, King of Scots from 1406 until his assassination in 1437. The youngest of three sons, he was born in Dunfermline Abbey to King Robert III of Scotland, Robert III and ...
(reigned 1406 to 1437), the third monarch of the
House of Stewart
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.
See also
*
Château de la Verrerie (Cher), another Stewart seat at
Oizon, 14 miles south-east of Aubigny.
[Cust, p.62]
*
Stewart of Darnley
Stewart of Darnley, also known as the Lennox Stewarts, was a notable Scots family. They were a branch of the Clan Stewart, who provided the English Stuart monarchs with their male-line Stuart descent, after the reunion of their branch with the ...
Further reading
*Gaspard Thaumas de la Thaumassiere, ''Histoire de Berry'', Paris, 1689, pp. 697–70
*Cust, Lady Elizabeth, ''Some Account of the Stuarts of Aubigny, in France'', London, 189
References
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Châteaux in France