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Clan Stewart
Virescit vulnere virtus (Courage grows strong at a wound)
Clan Stewart descends from Walter FitzAlan, whose family held the barony of Oswestry in Shropshire. David I appointed Walter dapifer, that is steward of the royal household, and from that office his descendants took the name Stewart; from the same king Walter obtained the lands of Renfrew, Paisley, Pollock and Cathcart. Walter, the sixth high steward, married Princess Marjory, daughter of Robert the Bruce, and from them the royal house of Stewart descended, while the Stewarts of Lorn, Atholl and Balquhidder are counted the principal branches of the wider family. The Standing Council of Scottish Chiefs lists no Chief of the Name of Stewart.