Aubigny, Bernard [Béraud; Bérault] Stuart, third seigneur d’
(1447?-1508). French general. Principal wars: War of the Roses; Italian Wars. Principal
Battles: Bosworth Field (1485); Seminara I (1495); Seminara II (1503).
A descendant of the Stewart of Derneley granted the lands of Aubigny and
Concressault by the Dauphin Charles (future Charles VII) in 1421 for services
to the French crown, he fought at Bosworth Field (Aug. 22, 1485) and later
commanded the French army that defeated Spain’s “Great Captain,” Gonzalo de
Cordoba, at Seminara I (or Monteleone, June 28, 1495). He was subsequently made
Grand Constable and Governor of Naples (1501) but was defeated by Don Fernando
de Andrada at Seminara II (Apr. 21, 1503) and imprisoned in the tower of the
Castello Nuovo. He died in Scotland in June 1508.
Commynes described him as a “bon chevalier, saige, et bon et honrable”;
Brantome as a “grand chevalier sans reproche”; and Bayard as “ung tres gentil
et vertueux Capitaine.”
Sources: Aubigny, Béraud Stuart, and Élie
de Comminges. Traité
sur l'art de la guerre de Bérault
Stuart, seigneur d'Aubigny.
La Haye: M. Nijhoff, 1976. Cust, Lady Elizabeth Caroline. Some Account of
the Stuarts of Aubigny, in France, 1422-1672. London: Chiswick Press 1891.
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