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English: Argent, a lion rampant gules, debruised by a bend raguly or. Augmentation to the arms of Steward given by the French King Charles VI (1368-1422) to Sir Alexander Steward, for service done by his father Andrew Steward to that king and to the king of Scots, and also to John the French king, grand-father to Charles VI.
Evidently alludes to the following event. An armed knight foughtwith a lion, and having broken his sword, which lay in fragments at his feet, snatched up a rude club with which he combatted the beast. In allusion to this, in some books the following crest is given to the Steward family A sword broken in two, the pieces placed in saltire on a wreath, and surmounting a ragged staff erecly or. (Source: Archaeologia: Or Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to Antiquity, 1777, pp.183-5[1]) |
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