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Seal of Walter
Stewart Earl of Menteith, 1292. A shield vearing a fess cheque, with a labe of five points as a difference. Above the shield is a crescent. On each side of the shield appear three projections resembling eagles' feet. "S' Walteri Senescalli Comt' de
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in right of his wife, and differenced the
Stewart arms by changing the fess to a bend and the Azure squares of the check to Sable. They had two sons as issue, both of whom assumed the surname Menteith and at least one daughter.
168:. He, Countess Mary, and a party of Scots barons traveled to Norway accompanying the princess and her dowry of fourteen thousand marks. In 1285 he and his Countess were again attacked by the rival claimants
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Effigies of Scotland, from the Thirteenth Century to the Fifteenth Century", in the Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 29 (1894–95), figure 15, p. 353.
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he was aligned with the "English faction", and in 1255 secured the persons of the young King and Queen, but he was not at this time allowed to a share in the government. About 1260, when
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97:, to Walter Stewart, who took possession of the lands and title, with questions of legal ownership being reserved. He was certainly using the title of earl (
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View of the
Chapter House of Inchmahome Priory; effigies on the right represent the Countess Mary and Walter, Earl of Menteith.
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History of the Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages of the British Empire
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The Scots Peerage, Founded on Wood's Edition of Sir Robert Douglas's Peerage of Scotland
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Elena Stewart, who married John Drummond, 8th Thane of Lennox.
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belonging to the earl to be incorporated in the sheriffdom of
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nickname roughly translated as "the freckled". He was the
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