The 16th-century Scottish historian,
Boece, gave the Stewart kings a mythical ancestor of the ancient
house of Kenneth Mac Alpin called Banquo, whom Shakespeare was
careful to include in Mac Beth for the satisfaction of the first
Stewart king to occupy the English throne, James VI. Today those
who attach a sentimental importance to a Celtic origin for the
Stewarts have the equal satisfaction of knowing that they came
from just beyond the borders of Normandy, and descended from a
Breton named Flaald. Their town of Dol, with its beautiful Norman
Cathedral, still commemorates the illustrious and ill-fated dynasty
to which it gave birth. The ancestors of the Stewarts acquired
estates in England after the Conquest and moved to Scotland with
David I. Here they received the hereditary court appointment of
High Steward, and Walter the 6th High Steward married the daughter
of King Robert Bruce.
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