Title in the peerage of Ireland
Earldom of Castle Stewart
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Arms:
Quarterly: 1st, Or a Lion rampant Gules, armed and langued Azure, within a Double-Tressure flory counter-flory Gules (Scotland); 2nd, Or, a Fess chequy Azure and Argent, in chief a Label of three-points Gules (Stuart); 3rd, Argent, a Saltire between four Roses Gules, barbed and seeded proper (Lennox); 4th, Or, a Lion rampant Gules (Macduff); the whole within a Bordure compony Argent and Azure.
Crest:
A Unicorn’s Head Argent, armed and maned Or.
Supporters:
On either side a Wyvern tail nowed Or, armed proper and langued Gules.
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Creation date
| 29 December 1800
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Created by
| George III
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Peerage
| Peerage of Ireland
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First holder
| Andrew Stuart, 1st Viscount Castle Stewart
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Present holder
| Andrew Stuart, 9th Earl Castle Stewart
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Heir presumptive
| Thomas Stuart
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Subsidiary titles
| Viscount Castle Stewart
Baron Castle Stuart
Baronet ‘of Castle Stewart’
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Status
| Extant
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Seat(s)
| Stuart Hall, near
Stewartstown
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Motto
| FORWARD
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Earl Castle Stewart
, in the
County Tyrone
, is a title in the
Peerage of Ireland
. It was created in 1800 for
Andrew Thomas Stewart, 9th Baron Castle Stuart
.
The
Earls
Castle Stewart claim to be the head representatives in the pure male line of the Scottish Royal
House of Stuart
. They are directly descended from Sir Walter Stewart (died 1425), Keeper of
Dumbarton Castle
, younger son of
Murdoch Stewart, 2nd Duke of Albany
, son of
Robert Stewart, 1st Duke of Albany
,
[1]
younger son of
King Robert II of Scotland
. One of Sir Walter's sons, Andrew Stuart, was created
Lord Avandale
(or Avondale) in 1459 and became
Lord Chancellor of Scotland
from 1460 to 1482. Another son, Walter Stewart, became feudal Baron of Morphie and was legitimised in 1479. His grandson
Andrew Stewart
was created
Lord Avondale
circa 1499, a revival of the title which had become extinct on his great-uncle's death in 1488. Andrew, Lord Avondale, was one of the many Scottish peers who were killed at the
Battle of Flodden
in 1513.
The eldest son of Lord Avondale (killed 1513),
Andrew Stewart, 2nd Lord Avondale
, exchanged the Lordship of Avondale with Sir James Hamilton for that of Ochiltree (see the
Lord Ochiltree
for further history of this title) by an Act of Parliament in 1542, becoming
Lord Stuart of Ochiltree
. He was succeeded by his son,
Andrew Stewart, 2nd Lord Ochiltree
. In turn, his son,
Andrew Stuart
(also spelled as Andrew Stewart), succeeded him as 3rd
Lord Ochiltree
and became First
Gentleman of the Bedchamber
to
King James VI
. To raise money, in 1615 he resigned the feudal barony of Ochiltree and the peerage to his first cousin, Sir James Stuart, the son of
James Stewart, Earl of Arran
, younger son of the second Lord Ochiltree.
In compensation for the loss of this title, in 1619 the King created the previous 3rd Lord Ochiltree the
Baron Castle Stuart
in the
Peerage of Ireland
. In 1611, he had settled in
Ulster
where he was granted 3,000 acres (12 km
2
) of land in
County Tyrone
. He was succeeded by his son, the second Baron, Andrew Stewart (1590?1639), who one year before the death of his father had in 1628 been created a
Baronet
in the
Baronetage of Nova Scotia
. The second Baron made his home at
Roughan Castle
and was the founder of nearby
Stewartstown, County Tyrone
. His eldest son, Sir Andrew Stewart 2nd Bt., became the third Baron and Governor of Fort Falkland in
County Offaly
fighting as a
Royalist
in the
Civil War
. He was the father of one daughter, Mary, his sole heiress. She married
Henry Howard, 5th Earl of Suffolk
, and the majority of the Stewart estates in Ireland were swallowed up by him. The title Baron Castle Stuart passed briefly to Sir Andrew's brother, Josias Stewart, who died childless. On the death of the fourth Baron, his uncle the Hon. John Stewart (d.1685) succeeded to the title as the 5th Baron. After John's death, the title was passed to his nephew, Robert Stewart (1646?1686) of Irry in County Tyrone, the eldest son of
Robert Stewart, of Irry
, third son of
Andrew Stuart, 1st Baron Castle Stuart
. The 6th Baron Castle Stuart was the father of Andrew Stewart (1672?1715), who during the wars of the Revolution was taken to
Scotland
. At the age of twelve, he became the rightful heir to the title 7th Baron Castle Stuart, but on returning to
Ireland
in adulthood he did not think it fit to claim the title as the land that had once gone with it was no longer his, having been given as a dowry to the previously mentioned Earl of Suffolk. Instead, the
de jure
7th Baron made his home at Irry, which he renamed Stuart Hall, near
Stewartstown, County Tyrone
. His son, Robert Stewart (1700?1742) of Stuart Hall, for the same reasons as his father, chose not to become the 8th Baron Castle Stuart. After remaining dormant for 88 years the title Baron Castle Stuart was reclaimed by Andrew Thomas Stewart (1725?1809) of Stuart Hall, the eldest son of the
de jure
8th Baron. He successfully petitioned the King and in 1774 became the rightful
9th Baron Castle Stuart
. In 1793, he was created
1st Viscount Castle Stuart
[2]
and in 1800 he was further honoured by being created the
1st Earl Castle Stewart
all in the
Peerage of Ireland
.
[3]
Lord Castle Stewart was baptised Andrew Thomas Stewart-Moore.
[
citation needed
]
Moore was the maiden name of his paternal great-grandmother, Anne (Moore) Stewart, daughter of William Moore of Garvey, Garvey House and Fassaroe Castle, High Sheriff of County Tyrone, a first cousin of the
1st Earl of Clanbrassil
. He only assumed the surname of Stewart by royal licence in 1775. He was succeeded by his eldest son, the second Earl. His eldest son, the third Earl, died childless and was succeeded by his younger brother, the fourth Earl. His only son, the fifth Earl, assumed in 1867 by royal licence the additional surname of Richardson (which was that of his father-in-law). He died without male issue and was succeeded by his first cousin, who became the sixth Earl. He was the second but eldest surviving son of Reverend the Hon. Andrew Godfrey Stuart, fourth son of the second Earl. His two elder sons were both killed in the
First World War
and he was therefore succeeded by his third son, the seventh Earl, in 1921. He represented
Harborough
in the
House of Commons
as a Unionist. He married in December 1920 Eleanor May Guggenheim (eldest daughter of Irene Guggenheim,
nee
Rothschild, and
Solomon R Guggenheim
). They had four sons. His two elder sons were both killed in the
Second World War
. The titles are held by his third son, the eighth Earl, from 1961 to 2023.
[4]
As of November 2023, the titles are held by the eighth Earl's son, Andrew Stuart, 9th Earl Castle Stewart, following his death on 21 November 2023.
[5]
Another member of the Stuart/Stewart family was
Henry Stewart, 1st Lord Methven
. He was a younger son of the first Lord Avondale (of the second creation). The Earldom and Baronetcy of castle Stewart are registered with the Crown Office (now Ministry of Justice), and recorded at the College of Arms, London.
The family seat is
Stuart Hall
, near
Stewartstown
,
County Tyrone
.
Lords Avondale (c. 1499)
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Lords Stuart of Ochiltree (1542)
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Barons Castle Stewart (1619)
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Earls Castle Stewart (1800)
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The
heir presumptive
is the present holder's paternal cousin, Thomas Harry Erskine Stuart (b. 1974).
See also
[
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Notes
[
edit
]
- ^
"Bannockburn Genetic Genealogy Project"
.
stewartsociety.org
.
- ^
"No. 13609"
.
The London Gazette
. 4 January 1794. p. 3.
- ^
"No. 15326"
.
The London Gazette
. 10 January 1801. p. 40.
- ^
"8th Earl Castle Stewart, Arthur Patrick Avondale Stewart"
.
geni.com
.
- ^
Michael Rhodes [@migrhodes] (27 November 2023).
"Arthur Stuart, 8th Earl Castle Stewart has died on 21 November 2023"
(
Tweet
) – via
Twitter
.
- ^
Mosley, Charles, ed. (1999). "Castle Stewart".
Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage
. Vol. 1 (106th ed.). Crans, Switzerland: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd. pp. 514?517.
ISBN
2-940085-02-1
.
- ^
Morris, Susan; Bosberry-Scott, Wendy; Belfield, Gervase, eds. (2019). "Castle Stewart".
Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage
. Vol. 1 (150th ed.). London: Debrett's Ltd. pp. 818?822.
ISBN
978-1-999767-0-5-1
.
References
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