A System of Heraldry - Clan Strachan Society

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OF THE FESSE.
horned or ; with tliis word for motto, Wbadder ; as iu Workman's Book of Blazons
This family continued till the reign of King James VI. when James Lord Inner-
meth having married Mary Stewart, daughter of John Earl of Athol, was, by the
favour of that monarch, created Earl of Athol upon the 25th day of March 1596,
but he died without succession 1605.
STEWART of Craigie, now called Craighall, quarterly, first and fourth or, a fesse
cheque, azure and argent, in chief three buckles of the second, for Stewart of Bonkill
; second and third ermine, on a fesse sable , , three crescents argent, for Craigie
or Craig, as in Sir James Balfour's and Esplin's Blazons.
STEWART of Durlsdeer or Rosyth, or, a fesse cheque, azure and argent, within a
bordure gules, charged with eight buckles of the first. Esplin's Blazons.
Sir JAMES STEWART, commonly called the Black Knight of Lorn, being a
younger son of the Lord Lorn and Innermeth before-mentioned, married Jean,
daughter of John Earl of Somerset, and Queen Dowager of King James I. of Scot-
land, by whom he had three sons : first, John ; second, James Earl of Buchan ;
third, Andrew Bishop of Murray. The eldest, John, by the favour of King Jamcb
II. his uterine brother, was created Earl of Athol ; which earldom was then in the
King's possession, by the forfeiture of Walter Earl of Athol, murderer of King
James I. John, as Lieutenant to King James III. in his Majesty's minority, reduced
the rebel Donald Lord of the Isles, and brought him to submission ; for
which action he got the motto, Furth Fortune and fill the fetters : His arms were
quarterly, first and fourth Stewart ; second and third, paly of six, sable and or, for
the title of Athol ; crest, a hand holding a key bend-ways, with the foresaid mot-
to ; and, as relative thereto, two savages in fetters for supporters.
From this JOHN Earl of ATHOL, was John the fifth Earl in a direct line, who
died without male issue, leaving three daughters by his wife Mary, daughter to
William the first Earl of Gowrie. First, Dorothea, married to William first Earl
of Tullibardin. Second, Mary, wife to James Stewart Lord Innermeth, who, in
her right, was Earl of Athol, (of whom 1 spoke before), and died without issue ;
-o that the estate and dignity came to Dorothea Countess of Tullibardin, of whom
John Duke of Athol is the lineal heir, and carries the foresaid quartered arms marhailed
with his own, of which afterwards. The third daughter, Jean, was mar-
ried to Henry Lord St Colm, and died without issue.
The next collateral branch of the Stewarts of Lorn, that came from Sir James
Stewart, commonly called the Black Knight of Lorn, was JAMES, created Earl of
BUCHAN by King James II. about the year 1457, and got the lordship of Auchterhouse
by his wife Margaret, daughter and sole heir of Sir Alexander Ogilvie of
Auchterhouse. She bore to him Alexander Earl of Buchan, whose great grandson
John, Master of Buchan, was killed at the battle of Pinky, leaving only one
daughter, Christian, his sole heir. She married Robert Douglas, son of William
Douglas of Lochleven, and younger brother of William Earl of Morton, who was
idterwards Earl of Buchan. His son, James Douglas Earl of Buchan, had only a
daughter, Mary, his heir, who was married to James Erskine, eldest son of John
Earl of Marr, by his second wife Mary Stewart, daughter of Esme Duke of Lennox,
and with her obtained the estate and dignity of Buchan, which still continues
in the name of Erskine. The Stewarts of Buchan carried the plain coat of Stewart,
quartered with these of Buchan, viz. azure, three garbs or, but left out the buckles,
which showed their descent from the Stewarts of Bonkill. The like has been
the practice of our heralds and painters of late, in giving the plain coat of a principal
family to the cadets, without any difference, whenever they happened to be
marshalled with any other bearing ; which is a loss to the bearers, and confounding
to others curious in
genealogies.
The first of the family of STEWART of Traquair, was James Stewart, son of James
Stewart first Earl of Buchan ; who, by marrying Katherine Rutherford, one of the
daughters and co-heirs of Rutherford of that Ilk, in the reign of King James IV.
got the lands of Traquair and others. From him was lineally descended Sir John
Stewart, created a Lord Baron in 1628, and afterwards, in
1633, Earl of TRAQUAIR
and Lord LINTON by King Charles I. he ; being that King's High Treasurer, and
afterwards High Commissioner to the Parliament 1639. His son was Charles; and
his son, again, John Earl of Traquair, who married Lady Anne Seaton, daughter of