Everything about Bernard Stewart Lord Of Aubigny totally explained
Bernard Stewart (
French Bérault Stuart) (c.
1452 –
1508), 3rd Lord of Aubigny, was a
French soldier, Commander of the
Garde Écossaise, and diplomat belonging to the
Scottish family of
Stewart of Darnley.
Bernard was a member of the French force which fought alongside
Henry Tudor at
Bosworth Field. He commanded French forces in the
Second Italian War, and was victorious against a Spanish force under
Ugo de Moncada at the Battle of Terranuova on
25 December 1502. He was again victorious at the
Seminara the following year, a field where he'd previously defeated the great
Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba during the
First Italian War in 1495.
He married firstly Guillemette de Boucard (died ?), secondly Anne de Maumont (died after 1510), Countess of
Beaumont-le-Roger, becoming Count (jure uxoris) of Beaumont-le-Roger. He was granted the titles of Count of Arena, Marquis of
Squillace, Marquis of Girace and Duke of Terranuova in the
Kingdom of Naples.
He was later ambassador to the
King of Scots James IV. It was as a result of this mission that Aubigny became the subject of two ballads by
William Dunbar, "The Ballad of Lord Bernard Stewart" and "Elegy on the Death of Lord Bernard Stewart". Castle of
Aubigny-sur-Nère. James IV made him a member of the
Order of St Michael. He died in
Scotland at
Corstorphine about
12 June 1508.
Aubigny left one child, a daughter named Anne. Anne married a distant cousin,
Robert Stewart, a future
Marshal of France.
He was the author of a book on
military science,
Traité sur l'art de la guerre, reprinted in 1976.
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