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 AUBiGNY COMPLETE PEERAGE 329 and his 2nd wife, of the Comte of Beaumont-le-Roger, his ist wife's inheritance. He d. s.p. in 1543. His wife surv. him. 5. John Stuart, Seigneur d'Aubigny, grand-nephew of the above, being 3rd s. of John, 3rd Earl of Lennox [S.], s. and h. of IVIatthew, the 2nd Earl, who was s. and h. of John, the ist Earl, above-named. He was b. about 15 19, and was naturalised as a French subject by Francis I in Jan. 1536/7. He did homage for the Seigneurie of Aubigny to Charles IX, 14 July 1560. He was Capt. of the Scottish Archers of the Guard, 1536-60. He ;«., about 1542, Anne (the half-sister of the 2nd wife of his grand-uncle above-named), da. and coh. of Francois de la QuEuiLLE, Seigneur de la Queuille, by his 2nd wife, Anne, da. of Jacques d'Espinay, Seigneur d'Usse et de Saint Michel-sur-Loire. (") He d. 31 May 1567. His widow's will was dat. 4 Dec. 1579. 6. EsMi Stuart, Seigneur d'Aubigny, only s. and h. He was b. about 1543, and was brought up in France, but went to Scotland in Sep. 1579. On 5 Mar. 1579/80, he was cr. Earl of Lennox, tfc. [S.], and, 5 Aug. 158 1, Duke of Lennox, fife. [S.]. He d. 26 May 1583. See " Lennox, " Dukedom of, under the ist Duke. 7. Eswi Stuart, Seigneur d'Aubigny, 2nd s. He was b. about 1579, and was brought up in France. He did homage for the Seigneurie of Aubigny to Henry IV, 8 Apr. 1600. On 7 June 1619 C") he was cr. Earl of March, £;fc. [E.]. On 16 Feb. 1623/4 he sue. his elder br. as C) J. le Laboureur, Les Tombeaux dcs Personna Illustres, 1642, p. 170. Accord- ing to J.B. Bouillet, Nohiliairc d'Auvergne^ 1 846-53, vol. v, p. 212, she was da. of Henry de Rohan ["1], Seigneur d'Espinay. But Anne, da. of Henry d'Espinay, Seigneur d'Espinay in Brittany (nephew of Jacques above-named), m. (cont. 22 Sep. 1511), Jacques de Beauvau, Seigneur de Tigny in Anjou, who d. in 1553. (Du Paz, Plusieurs Maisons I/lustres de Bretagne, 1 61 9, pp. 262-317, pedigree of Espinay : S. et L. de Ste. Marthe, Histotre de la Mahon de Beauvau^ 1626, p. 80). Bouillet's absurd mistake of attributing the surname of Rohan to the great family of Espinay has been freely copied by English writers. Anne de la Queuille d. 5 Sep. 1 540 ; her heart was bur. in the Church of the Celestins at Paris. The arms on the tablet there were her husband's, Sable, a cross engrailed Or (la Queuille), quartering, Gules, a lion rampant Or (probably Fleurac) : and her own, Argent, a lion rampant per fesse Gules and Vert, armed langued and crowned Or (Espinay), quartering. Gules, 9 mascles Or, a label of 4 points Argent (Montauban) ; over all, Argent, a snake coiled in pale Azure, crowned Or, and swallowing an infant Gules (Visconti oj Parma). These arms are incorrectly described in The Stuarts of Aubigny, p. 88, Montauban being attributed to " Rohan de Montauban " [hV], and Espinay being wrongly blazoned and attributed to Armagnac [Argent, a lion rampant Gules, quart- ering, Gules, a lion rampant guardant Or (Rodez.)~, which latter arms, though sometimes quartered by Montauban [not Rohan', do not appear on the tomb. C") This is the date always given, but there is no enrolment of the creation. (D.K. Reports, no. 47, Appendix, p. 105). He appears, however, as Lord Aubigny, 10 June 1619. {Ca/. of State Papers, Domestic, 16x9-23, p. 52). 43