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editDescriptionAugmentedArms SirAlexanderSteward "TheFierce".svg | Argent, a lion rampant gules, debruised by a bend raguly or. Augmentation to the arms of Steward given by the French King Charles VI (1368-1422) to Sir Alexander Steward "The Fierce" (a grandson of w:Alexander Stewart, 4th High Steward of Scotland (died 1283), from whose first son were descended all the Stuart kings of Scotland), for service done by his father Andrew Steward to that king and to the king of Scots, and also to John the French king, grand-father to Charles VI. Evidently alludes to the following event. An armed knight foughtwith a lion, and having broken his sword, which lay in fragments at his feet, snatched up a rude club with which he combatted the beast. In allusion to this, in some books the following crest is given to the Steward family A sword broken in two, the pieces placed in saltire on a wreath, and surmounting a ragged staff erecly or. (Source: Archaeologia: Or Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to Antiquity, 1777, pp.183-5[1]) |
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