330 COMPLETE PEERAGE aubigny Duke of Lennox, &'c. [S.]. He d. 30 July 1624. See "Lennox," Dukedom of, under the 3rd Duke. 8. Henry Stuart, Seigneur d'Aubigny, 2nd s., b. Jan. 161 5/6, znd bap. at the Chapel Royal, Whitehall, 2 Apr. 16 16, Queen Anne being his godmother. His father resigned the Seigneurie of Aubigny in his favour in 161 9, and he was sent with his two next brothers to Aubigny, where they were brought up as Roman Catholics and natural- ised as French subjects. (*) He was ed. at Bourges and at Paris. He d. in 1632, at Venice, and was bur. there in the Church of SS. Giovanni e Paolo. 9. George Stuart, Seigneur d'Aubigny, next br., b. 17 July 1 61 8, at Bath House, Holborn. Ed. at Paris. He did homage for the Seigneurie of Aubigny to Louis XIII, 5 Aug. 1636. He m., secretly, in 1638, Katherine, C') da. of Theophilus (Howard), 2nd Earl of Suffolk, by Elizabeth, 2nd da. and coh. of George (Home), Earl of Dunbar [S.]. He d. 23 Oct. 1642, being slain, ex parte Regis, at the battle of Edgehill, and was bur. in Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford. (°) Admon., as "of the city of Westm., " 8 June 1647 to the widow, " Katherine Lady Aubigny, " and again, on behalf of his children alone, 6 June 1650 and 24 Sep. 1660. His widow m., in or shortly before 1649, Sir James Levingston, who was cr. Earl of Newburgh, ^c. [S.], 31 Dec. 1660. She d. in exile, in 1650, at the Hague. He was bur. 6 Dec. 1670. 10. LuDovic Stuart, Seigneur d'Aubigny, C^) next br., b. 14 Oct. C) " They wer naturalized in France that therby they might be capable to inherite the lordship of Aubignay and the rest of [their father's] lands in that kingdome, which otherwise they culd not doe, being borne in England and therefore alients in France. " (Sir Robert Gordon, Earldom of Sutherland, p. 127). C*) "Lady Katherine Howard... unknown to her father, the Earl of Suffolk, she is or will be married to the Lord d'Aubigny. " (Garrard to Wentworth, 10 May 1638 — Strafford Letters, vol. ii, p. 165). i^) He is included in The Loyalists' Bloody Roll, for which see vol. ii, Appendix A. He was " a gentleman of great hopes, of a gentle and winning disposition, and of a very clear courage. " Evelyn, in s Diary, 11 Jan. 166 1/2, says that he was " a person of good sense, but wholly abandoned to ease and effeminacy. " V.G. C") He was able to succeed to the Seigneurie, to the prejudice of his nephew (and successor), Charles, as he was a naturalised French subject. Charles, in a petition to the House of Lords (which was reported on, 6 Apr. 1647), stated that " his uncle Lodowick now liveth in France, and most wrongfully detaineth the estate of your petitioner there, " and the Lords, 23 July 1647, excluded Ludovic from his share of the property of his brothers, John and Bernard, " in regard that the said Lord Lodowicke receiveth a great part of the Lord Aubignie's estate, which he converteth to his own use. " [Lords' Journals, vol. ix, pp. 210, 351). Charles I, 24 Oct. 1646, wrote hoping that Lord Aubigny's children would not be put by from succeeding their father by " the omission of some formalities." [Letters, Camden Soc, p. 73).
