Category:Coats of arms of Louise de Kérouaille, 1st Duchesse d'Aubigny

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Arms of Louise de Kérouaille, 1st Duchess of Portsmouth, 1st Duchesse d'Aubigny,(1649-1734), a mistress of King Charles II of England. Charles requested the King of France to grant her the title Duchesse d'Aubigny, as his recently extinct (1672) and beloved cousins the Stewarts of Darnley (Dukes of Richmond and Lennox), whose ancestors lived for many generations in France, had been Seigneurs d'Aubigny, seated at the Chateau d'Aubigny in Berry, France. The arms are the canting arms of King Charles's paternal ancestors the de Bonkell family of Bonkyll Castle in Scotland, whose heirs were the Stewarts of Bonkyll, a younger branch of which was Stewart of Darnley, Earls of Lennox, of whom King James I & VI (grandfather of Charles II) was the heir, being nominally 5th Earl of Lennox. The canting arms of de Bonkyll were: Three buckles. These buckles had also been incorporated into the arms of Stewarts of Bonkyll, on a bend, and into the arms of Stewart of Darnley, in a bordure. Louise's heir in the French dukedom d'Aubigny was her grandson sired by King Charles, namely Charles Lennox, 2nd Duke of Richmond, 2nd Duke of Lennox, 2nd Duc d'Aubigny (1701-1750), son and heir of Charles Lennox, 1st Duke of Richmond, 1st Duke of Lennox (1672-1723), who predeceased his mother.