Stewart Society

JAMES Stewart

Fourth Earl of Moray

Father , died: 1653

(53) JAMES STEWART, FOURTH EARL OF MORAY (S.). Died 1653. He had four sons :-
a) James, Lord Doune, died unmarried in his father's lifetime.
b) Alexander Stuart, fifth Earl, from whom all the later Earls, including the sixteenth and present Earl, descend.
c) Francis of Culalay, died without issue.
d) Archibald of Dunearn, ancestor of the Stuarts of Dunearn.
Arms: of present Earl of Moray, recorded 1672-77.- 1 and 4. Scotland, within a bordure compony blue and silver. 2. Gold, a fess chequy blue and silver. 3. Gold, three cushions within a double tressure flory-counter-flory, red. CREST: A pelican in her nest feeding her young proper. SUPPORTERS: Two silver greyhounds with red collars. MOTTO:"Salus_per_Christum_ redemptorem" (Lyon Register). [Plate III., fig. 34.]
Arms: of Stuart of Dunearn, as Earl of Moray, with black crescent in centre of quarters. Same CREST and MOTTO, but no SUPPORTERS (Burke).