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.Richardson, pp. 625-626.

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References

*Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families (2013). *Mosley, Charles, editor. Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, Vol. 2. Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003. *The Scots Peerage, Vol. III, edited by Sir James Balfour Paul {{DEFAULTSORT:Stewart, Thomas 1430s deaths 15th-century Scottish nobility Children of peers and peeresses

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Illegitimate branches of the House of Stuart