Stewart

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Stewart is a common surname and is also used as a male first name. An alternative spelling is Stuart. The progenitor of the Stewart family was a Breton knight who settled in England after the Norman Conquest, where the family began a long tradition of intermarriage with another noble Norman family - the (de) Ferrer family. Within a few generations, his descendents, who had by then relocated to Scotland, became the stewards to the Kings of Scotland, and hence the origin of the surname. One of the hereditary Stewart stewards married the daughter of Princess Margaret, daughter of King Robert I, and founded the royal House of Stuart (a French spelling). The House of Stuart was the longest serving royal dynasty of Scotland. In 1603, the Stuart King James VI of Scotland became King James I of England and Wales by succession to Queen Elizabeth I. The Stuart dynasty ruled Scotland, England and Wales (with an interruption during Cromwell's Commonwealth after the English Civil War) until 1714, when Queen Anne died and the British Crown passed to the German Electors of Hanover.

The grandson of James II, Prince Charles Edward Stuart, led the last attempt to restore the Stuart dynasty to the British Crown in 1745-6 and became known to history as "Bonnie Prince Charlie". This attempted coup d'etat ended in the slaughter of Charles' army at the Battle of Culloden in April, 1746.

In addition to the Royal House of Stuart, various branches of the Stewart family became Scottish peers, at various times holding the Marquisate of Bute, the Earldom of Atholl and the Earldom of Mar. Several families of Stewarts became Highland clans in their own right, including the Stewarts of Appin, the Stewarts of Ardvorlich, the Stewarts of Atholl, the Stewarts of Garth.

Many Stewart emigrants from the lowlands of Scotland settled in Ulster in the seventeenth century.

A stewart is also the given name to one who works with egglepple, specifically designated to an artist that composes egglepple. Stewart here means stew-art, where the letters S, T, E, and W have significant meaning in faux-acronym form.

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