Lord Bernard Stewart

For other people named Bernard Stewart, see Bernard Stewart (disambiguation).

Lord Bernard Stewart, c. 1638 (right), pictured with his elder brother Lord John Stewart (1621-1644), by Sir Anthony van Dyck

Lord Bernard Stewart (1623 – 26 September 1645) was a Scottish aristocrat who served as a Royalist commander in the English Civil War. He was the youngest of five sons of Esmé Stewart, 3rd Duke of Lennox and his wife Katherine Clifton, 2nd Baroness Clifton, and the brother of James Stewart, 1st Duke of Richmond.^[1]

Lord Bernard was to be created Earl of Lichfield by King Charles I for his actions at the first and second battles of Newbury and Naseby but died of injuries received leading a sortie against besieging Parliamentary forces in the Battle of Rowton Heath in September 1645, before the patent could be implemented. The titles of Baron Newbury and Earl of Lichfield were instead created in December 1645 for his six-year-old nephew, Charles Stewart (1639–1672), the son of Bernard's elder brother George Stewart, 9th Seigneur d'Aubigny, who had been killed at the Battle of Edgehill in 1642.^[1] His brother John was also killed in the war.

Notes

1 2 Money 1881, pp. 187–188

References

Money, Walter (1881). The First and Second Battles of Newbury and the Siege of Donnington Castle During the Civil War, A.D. 1643-6. Simpkin, Marshall and co. Retrieved 1 March 2009.
National Portrait Gallery commentary on the portrait by Van Dyck
Burke's Peerage & Gentry, 107th edition

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