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The earliest known member of the House of Stewart was Flaald I (Flaald the Seneschal), an 11th century Breton noble who was a follower of the Lord of Dol and Combourg. Flaald and his immediate descendants held the hereditary and honorary post of Dapifer (food bearer) in the Lord of Dol's household. His grandson Flaald II was a supporter of Henry I of England and made the crucial move from Brittany to Britain, which was where the future fortunes of the Stewarts lay.
Walter the Steward (died 1177), the grandson of Flaald II, was born in Shropshire. Along with his brother William, ancestor of the Fitzalan family (the Earls of Arundel), he supported Empress Maud during the Anarchy. Maud was aided by her uncle, David I of Scotland, and Walter followed David north in 1141Events Robert, 1st Earl of Gloucester and Empress Maud wrest control of the English throne, from Stephen of England. Later in the year Matilda is forced to return Stephen to the throne after Robert is captured by loyalist forces. Births Malcolm IV, King o, after Maud had been usurped by StephenStephen ( 1096 October 25, 1154), the last Norman King of England, reigned from 1135 to 1154, when he was succeeded by his cousin (or, as the gossip of the time had it, his natural son) Henry II, the first of the Angevin or Plantagenet Kings. Stephen was. Walter was granted land in RenfrewshireRenfrewshire is one of 32 unitary authority regions in Scotland. It borders onto North Ayrshire, East Renfrewshire, City of Glasgow, Inverclyde and West Dunbartonshire. The 1975-96 district of Renfrew covered a slightly larger area, and included the towns and the position of Lord High Steward. Malcolm IVMalcolm IV (c. 1141- December 9 , 1165) was the eldest son of Henry, Earl of Huntingdon (d. 1152), son of King David I, and succeeded his grandfather David as king of Scotland in 1153. He was called the "Milk Maiden," and died unmarried and childless in 1 made the position hereditary and it was inherited by Walter's son, who took the surname Stewart.
The sixth High Steward of Scotland, Walter Stewart ( 1293Events May 20 King Sancho IV of Castile creates the Study of General Schools of Alcala. Births Deaths 1293.- 1326Events Change of emperor of the Ottoman Empire from Osman I ( 1299-1326) to Orhan I (1326- 1359) Births Pope Gregory XII Deaths November 25 Prince Koreyasu, 7th Kamakura shogun of Japan 1326.), married Majory, daughter of Robert the Bruce. Their son RobertRobert II ( March 2, 1316- April 19, 1390), king of Scotland, called "the Steward", a title that gave the name to the House of Stewart (or Stuart). Robert was the sole son of Walter, the 5th High Steward of Scotland (d. 1326), and Marjorie (d. 1316 in chi was heir to the House of Bruce; he eventually inherited the Scottish throne when his uncle David II of Scotland died childless in 1371.
In 1503, James IV of Scotland attempted to secure peace with England by marrying Henry VII's daughter, Margaret Tudor. The birth of their son, later James V, brought the House of Stewart into the line of descent of the House of Tudor, and the English throne. Margaret Tudor later married Archibald Douglas, 6th Earl of Angus, and their daughter, Margaret Douglas, was the mother of Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley. In 1565, Darnley married his half-cousin Mary, the daughter of James V. Darnley's father was Matthew Stewart, 4th Earl of Lennox, a direct descendant of Alexander Stewart, the fourth High Steward, and Mary's heir presumptive, who had changed the spelling of his surname whilst at the English court. Therefore Darnley was also related to Mary on his father's side, and at the time of their marriage was himself second in line to the Scottish throne. Because of this connection, Mary's heirs remained part of the House of Stewart.