The House of Stewart
It would be worth a whole book of genealogy to
show the Stewarts' attack on Scotland. Not only the throne was the aim,
as in their rising the large Stewart family secured Earldoms, islands (as
Bute or Arran), offices (as the supreme judge) and connections with the
most sonorous names that Scotland had: Arundel, Albany, Menteith, Moray,
Angus, for themselves.
What could be done against a family that had seven
sons in one generation and four sons and three daughters in another? When
King David II.died so many important positions
were held by Stewarts that there was no way past them. King Robert II.
had by the four marriages of his father not less than twelve brothers,
sisters and half-brothers and -sisters, and their connections brought a
large part of the Scottish aristocracy to support the new dynasty.
Banquo (according to Shakespeare)
Fleeance (according to Shakespeare)
| ALAN |
-1097 |
Seneschall of the Archbishop of Dol-de-Bretagne, went
into the holy-land and his brother Flaald became Seneschall in 1097 |
| FLAALD |
1097- |
brother of Alan, became Seneschall in 1097 |
