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George Stuart (or Stewart), 9th Seigneur d’Aubigny

Scottish nobleman and Royalist commander in the English Civil War. George Stuarts father, the Duke of Lennox, died in 1624 when George was just six, and he became a ward of his cousin, King Charles I of England.  

In 1638 he secretly married Katherine Howard, the daughter of Theophilus Howard, 2nd Earl of Suffolk, and Elizabeth Home, without her father’s consent, offending his guardian the king.

The portrait of Stewart by Anthony van Dyck, now in the National Portrait Gallery, London, may have been painted to mark his marriage; the Latin inscription can be translated “Love is stronger than I am” which may allude to his conflicting loyalties.